If you think shooting yourself for the sole purpose of ending your life is painless and easy, you are wrong. A person has to be at the very end of hope to even think about that. Alone, that is painful, but not easy. How down and out would a person need to be to pull the trigger with a gun aimed to their head??
Have you ever thought of doing it? Were you so deeply depresed that it seemed like a good idea? That doing it would solve all your problems??
A person who takes their own life is very selfish, albiet mentally off track. My first husband was always depressed, ( he was born depressed and so was his mother and grandfather) but we never thought he'd do it...but one day the squad got a call for shots fired, arrived at the scene and found him lying in the backyard with a gunshot wound to his head. He died 45 minutes later at the local hospital. He left 2 kids, a wife and a bevy of friends behind. The kids are still dealing with this so many years later.
Be careful how you word your responses here to a tragedy elsewhere. No one really knows another person, their pains and secrects. It isn't somthing to joke about, it transends sad, tragic is not deep enough to describe suicide.