@MozartLink,
There is some kind of mind set in people that belive that heir own problems are the worst, and that they solely suffer and that no one can ever understand them. there is no worst foolish concept than this.
Life is granted without asking for it, no one asks to be born. It happens abruptly, me stay on a stasis 9 month period inside a highly evolutionated awesome nursing ballon, and from the moment of birth our bodies are saturated by stimuli from the world. Heat, loud noises, darkness, bright lights. This, we like it or not, is life. Life is experienced through our senses, trough our feelings, through our toughts. There is a reason why we remember this experience, because they grant us the possibility to react. This intelligence we have evolved from a huge necesity to modify our enviroment or ourselves to survive. We got this experiences and manage to make ourselves through adversity.
Death is the blind stop of the stimuli record. There is nothing beyond (unless you belive in an afterlife). What we tought what we knew what ewe learnt, is lost forever. t doesn´t matters if it was a good life or a bad one, it all ends the same. So why end it by our own hand? Then what was the point for even starting? That is, tehre is nopoin to begin living, because we during this time of living we end up finding our own personal motif.
You are right in part, it is not cowardice to end our life because we fear death. Suicides fear life the most. Fearing life is the maximum cowardice. It is the equivalent of a recently born baby that screams because the light of the labor room scares him, and just decides to stop his hearth beat. Because the stimuli was unbearable.
I understand that there are depressed patients that do commit suiced. They are not cowards in the same way, because they chemically lack the capacity of function of their self preservation perception in their brains. So they are different to those i talk about on my last parragraphs, please do not mix them.