For some, the struggle went on for years. For others, the struggle was somewhat short-lived. Most people lived very productive lives and should be remembered as such. No person who died of suicide should be remembered as a failure, as a coward, or as selfish. Suicide should not be described in those terms.
Suicide is an act of complete desperation.
Many people who died by suicide have been engaged in trojan struggles to continue living and, finally, they ran out of energy, they ran out of hope. They were completely engulfed in despair and so they terminated their lives. It was not because they wanted to or because they didn't love their dear ones, or because they were cowards or weak. They were people who had struggled long enough and succumbed to an illness the illness of depression. In the months and years following the suicide, after people have gone through the initial stages of grieving, they are able to take a better look at their loved one's life and see that their life was richer and fuller and more productive than their final act of desperation.