In theory at least, nothing happens to us that should make suicide a viable alternative to death though excruciating pain… well, maybe? Or losing your mind, the slow drift of Alzheimer's? Are moments of lucidity worth living for?
I don't know that but I do know this, if you have two young children, killing yourself is simply not an alternative. You can't let two people go through their life dealing with the world without a mother and maybe more, without the sense that their value as people are great enough to exist without a mother.
Mindy McCready was self-evidently a deeply troubled woman and maybe the insane can't save themselves but whatever else she wasn't what she certainly was was insanely selfish. What is lacking in a suicide is a certain component in the brain, empathy or even just pity for other people. If for one instant Mindy could've gotten out of her own way and seen past herself to her children, she would've stopped her own hand.
If I killed myself, who cares? It would not cause irreparable damage to any one. I have no children and even if t did, they'd be grown up by now. It's my choice and given the life I lead now, if not the life I will lead in 20 years from now, there is no real reason to consider it.
But I would hope that if I had two very young children I would be able to hold on to my life a little longer, at least let them have a life (Mindy's children were in Foster care at the time of her death but that doesn't change anything) with a mother and it is really tough, maybe clinical insanity, that she couldn't do it.
Nobody knows if McCready's life would have turned around if she had lived but we do know for sure, it wouldn't if she didn't. So called animals in the jungle take care of their children, what is left if we won't simply exist another coupla decades for them. Life is fast and then it's gone.