> She and others inflicted mental torture on him until he couldn't bear to live any longer.
That is an idiotic thing to say, and it only raises doubt about all of your other statements.
Aaron was chronically depressed for years. People who are chronically depressed tend to kill themselves, or at least try to. Their external circumstances are rarely the cause of their suicide. It's up to you to prove that this lawsuit caused him to commit suicide, and he wouldn't have otherwise.
For example, why did David Foster Wallace kill himself? He was at the top of his career, critically acclaimed author, had a loving partner, and yet he still took his own life.
1) his lawyer and his closest family seem to agree that the lawsuit was the driving force
2) he did it on the anniversary of the start of the lawsuit
3) the actual trial was to start shortly
4) So far when under outside pressure he held up pretty good, but this was pressure far exceeding his previous exposure
Now, none of that is conclusive proof. But I don't see any reason brought forward other than the lawsuit why he killed himself. Absent such proof I tend to believe strongly that this was the reason why he did it.
If you don't want to believe that then that's fine with me but it does mean that you are ignoring some evidence right in front of your eyes.
It's a lot easier to blame the attorney prosecuting your child for his suicide than to point to his chronic depression (which I've not really seen acknowledged by them)...
It's a lot easier to blame a defendants suicide on his mental state than on your prosecution.
Aarons parents are under no obligation to acknowledge their sons mental state because he has acknowledged so himself in lots of places. That does not mean that this absolves everybody else from blame.
He may well have done so, but it comes across as disingenuous to mention one very pertinent detail (a /highly/ aggressive prosecution), and leave out another (chronic depression going on for many years).
No-one is saying anyone is absolved of 'blame' or being a factor in Aaron's decision.
Aaron was indeed unusually vulnerable. This vulnerability does not excuse the prosecutorial overreach which triggered his suicide. This overreach would merely have been devastating and life-altering to a normal person, but for Aaron, it pushed him over the edge.
Consider a hypothetical example. I'm not sure if this ever really happened in the Civil Rights movement (or if it did, that it was reported), but you can imagine that a black man, on the brink of death, was refused care at a "white only" hospital. He dies on the way to the "negro hospital". The public, faced with this stark story, see the deep injustice of it, and clamor for segregation to end and for the resignation of the hospital personnel responsible for the man's death.
That is an idiotic thing to say, and it only raises doubt about all of your other statements.
Aaron was chronically depressed for years. People who are chronically depressed tend to kill themselves, or at least try to. Their external circumstances are rarely the cause of their suicide. It's up to you to prove that this lawsuit caused him to commit suicide, and he wouldn't have otherwise.
For example, why did David Foster Wallace kill himself? He was at the top of his career, critically acclaimed author, had a loving partner, and yet he still took his own life.