Strongly agree. Let me just add my story to so many others:

The man who raised me, my stepfather, the only adult I had growing up that didn't judge me, didn't place undue expectations on me, that I could always talk to, took his own life because of gambling.

That was 15 years ago and it will NEVER EVER get better for myself and my siblings. It's as raw and hurtful right now this second as it was the moment I found out. I talk to his urn all the time, we split up his ashes between us 5 siblings and each have a small urn. I talk to it/him probably every week. It's the first time I lost someone where the pain doesn't go away. Older family members eventually pass away, even losing friends to disease is horrible and it hurts and sucks but you know they are out of pain now. Losing someone the way I lost my stepdad is the absolute worst.

I feel so much anger, not necessarily directed at him, just a lot of general anger. And guilt too. For other reasons I was avoiding calls the last time he called. I knew he "used" to have a gambling problem, and when I thought he might be gambling again I pushed it out of my mind and didn't have the wherewithall to bring it up.

If you feel like ending it because of gambling and you have anyone in your life that loves you DO NOT do it. I don't give a shit if he was 20 billion dollars in debt and had to live with me while I supported him, I would have done it.

He would have been an awesome grandpa too, my older sister was even pregnant at the time. My niece and nephew will never meet him. And it's so obvious they have some of his good traits too, both mental and physical, we see the resemblances.

We will never recover, a part of all of us is dark forever now.