The inability to cope with what has been brought before you is cowardice. I'm sorry if I offend, but to deliberately take one's own life to run from that which cannot be handled is a poor choice. If within a situation that creates that kind of dispair there are hundreds of choices to be made that can affect the outcome of one's life. To lay your pistols on the ground and quit is unaccepable by any means. It may be an end to whatever it may be that haunts you, but it opens a whole new world of pain to what was left behind.
I've been there, with friends and myself and I still come to the same conclusion. It's wrong, sometimes it might be understandable to some degree, but the fact still remains - fight or flee, and fleeing from everything is the greatest form of cowardice that I can think of. Granted, running from a fight is the right thing to do at times - to LIVE and fight another day.
We can sit here and argue back and forth about who has had it bad and all that yaya (no offense to you and yours) but I can think of nothing that would justify that choice. There are too many other options available - no one and nothing can control, dictate, predict or assume the course of another human beings life (found that out the hard way) people control themselves and can and will do whatever it is that they desire.
Anyone who deliberately ends their life by their own hands to turn tail and run away from everything is a coward.
D.