People are not naturally compassionate, I know firsthand, they need to experience hardships to build compassion for other people, and, most extremely depressed people don't lash out, they just die.
That's interesting because what i've experienced firsthand is that while there are people who do have to experience hardships firsthand in order to build compassion for other people, there are also people don't have to experience hardships to build compassion for others.
Making cement statements like the bolded is an extremely unwise decision as there are all kinds of people in this world and universally conceptualizing EVERYONE based off your extremely limited experience of reality can lead you to making limiting, biased and prejudice judgements about others.
extremely depressed people don't 'just die' they can be extremely prone to lashing out at people in all kinds of ways. Some can range from attacking and trying to pull down others who don't have such a depressing and pessimistic outlook on reality as they do due to jealousy of others or the desire for companionship in their suffering, and I'm talking from experience. Some bottle it up and stay silent like you say and die and some end up going to public areas and committing mass murders before committing suicide themselves.
Bottom line is people deal with stuff in so many different ways that you can't judge how much they are suffering based on that, just give them the benefit of the doubt.
If you have to be in an extreme amount of mental or emotional pain to even consider that, is it really an "easy way out"?
it is the easy way out since had you not committed suicide and lived life until you died from natural causes, you'd have lived and therefore suffered a lot more, no? 'easy' is just a relative term, so relative to the 'other way out' suicide would be the 'easy' way out.
It's not saying that committing suicide means that you had it easier than someone who didn't.