At my last job the death of a direct family member, no matter the cause was worth a week off to deal with it - 2 days unpenalized 3 more subtracted from personal days if you had them, unpaid if you didn’t. Direct family meant spouse, parents, and children. Grandparents and siblings did not count.
Time off for depression beyond sick and personal days is hard to come by. Doctors don’t want to give time off for depression because it can lead to a case toward disability and they have to be very sparing about that to avoid an audit.
A person with a health complication like cancer or heart disease will generally be given more time to heal than a person with depression or another mental health problem.
The most insidious thing about depression is as far as I know it’s the only illness that actually makes you not care if you fix it.
As for suicides, a spouse left with a complicated life might not get over it, parents of non-adult children who do it might not recover. Otherwise, people get over it surprisingly fast. Life goes on.
In my opinion, it is selfish to interfere with another person’s suicide. Why should they live just because their suicide makes you uncomfortable? It should be a simple medical procedure. It should be like an abortion or a vasectomy. I would find it comforting to know I could get it handled safely by professionals.
The central motif that you may get over your depression and glad you never did it is irrelevant. No successful suicide has ever regretted it.
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