I’ve been examining the difference between living one’s life in depression or taking one’s life prematurely. Â Here I’ll post examples notable to me from the perspective that each person had an honorable mindset and the outcome was essentially the same.
Robert Frost lived with depression for most of his life, living through the  death of his wife and three of his children (as results of physical illness), the depression of his daughter, and the suicide of one of his sons.  He died naturally, remembered and respected by many.
Ernest Hemingway suffered depression, likely induced by his experience in World War I and heightened by his negative outlook […]