[AR_Six]

In terms of choice, it's an interesting way to frame the discussion... I don't know that it gets to a point that there are "no other choices left". It's more like, every day, the option to commit suicide is there, and most days you think about it. It's a valid possible alternative that seems, to varying degrees, like it might be a pretty damned good idea, and you spend a fair bit of time contemplating the various avenues of actually carrying it out. To greater or lesser extent depending on whether you're in a rough patch (I don't mean empirically in terms of bad stuff going on in life so much as in terms of the illness). But it's always there lurking in the background and always a totally valid possibility.

I guess what I'm saying is that mental illness, depression, whatever you want to call this failure of neurotransmitters, doesn't so much remove the capacity for choice as make certain avenues - suicide in this case - seem like a totally reasonable and potentially preferable option to all the others. What I guess most would refer to as a rational thought process by which one would reach the conclusion that not jumping off of a bridge is the way to go is effectively precluded.

I guess it's not all that different from reacting to the hallucination of a dog telling you to kill someone by assuming that that's a perfectly normal thing for a dog to be doing, like someone else brought up. Sure, you could ignore the dog, but he had a hell of a good argument.