Processing our mortality

[Angrboda]

I wonder, is there such a thing as suicide not driven by a chemically imbalanced depressive state?  Factors such as drug abuse and prolonged physical suffering can bring about the same storm of chemical imbalances seen in clinical depression.

This may not be particularly relevant, but I attempted suicide several times while under the delusion that I needed to end this life in order to journey back to an alternate universe that I originally came from. My suicides were typically attributed to depression, but that wasn't the driving force behind them. I suppose if somebody has the right set of beliefs, regardless of depressive state, they may be capable of suicide. Think of the Heaven's Gate cult deaths.