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I don't find anything wrong with being selfish. No one else is going to make the decisions you want for you, so you may as well do it yourself. It's your life.
My father committed suicide. He was suffering from the effects of a disease that rendered almost completely without ay muscle control. There was no getting better and, by the time they figured out what disease he was suffering from and were able to but a hold on the deterioration, he was very damaged. He decided he didn't want to live in this way nor did he want to inflict this type of suffering (and the care he would require) on the rest of us.
While it was an awful thing to go through - having your father or spouse die is never easy - I ended up respecting his decision. It would've bee selfish of me to make him live in his deteriorated state just so
I could have him around. And, in this case, his selfishness trumped my own selfishness.
I don't know the details and reasons why the man chose to jump off the DLH, so I can't make any judgements about his reasoning. I do think he could've done the act a bit more "quietly" and I feel deeply for the person or persons who witnessed the act for found the body.
Personally, I would not be opposed to making a decision for suicide for myself if I became so ill that it was a complete burden to live. I believe life should be a joy to experience and when the capacity for joy is gone life is no long worth the effort. What's difficult is know what the capacity for joy has gone.
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