We obviously don’t know the details or circumstances, so this is all speculation—but you would be surprised at how quickly things just become a part of your life. Your family member is, for example, suicidal. You spend months and months on edge, vigilant. Vigilance becomes routine. Nothing happens, day in and day out. You let down your guard for a brief moment and it all goes to shit.

We don’t need to sit here in judgement. We don’t know what his life, what their lives, were like.