Why is it so awful? While I do pity the man and feel for what he must have been going through, I agree with Grammy....many suicides are selfish.
Take the case of this man, if it really was a suicide. Let's say he was depressed and took his own life. Now, he leaves behind a family who grieves for him, and a wife who herself may be racked with guilt as to what she could have done differently to prevent her husband's death. His young son will grow up with a father, and may be too young to understand why his daddy killed himself. What if he takes it personally, and thinks it's his fault? Children do that sometimes. And what about the future for his wife and child? Life for a single parent isn't easy, especially under such tragic circumstances.
By committing suicide to end his own *treatable* pain (depression IS treatable), this man has thrown the lives of people he swore to stand by "in sickness and in health" into uncertainty and grief, and possibly on the road to depression themselves.
I define that as selfish. But JMO, as always.