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Sigh. For consistency, all the usual suspects ought to be in here telling us all about how the guy must have been mental to begin with and if not over this incident, he would have suicided over something else eventually anyway.
Not that I agree, but their absence is notable.
If you kill yourself, you are likely suffering from mental illness. Mental illness can come from trauma and isn't necessarily inherent in a person. The decision to end your own life (outside of medical reasons, like impending death from advance stage cancer), is not a decision made by someone with a healthy mind.
I don't know the extent of the harassment he may have received, but it's possible that it was severe enough to be considered traumatic, which altered his mental state significantly enough that it may be the reason he killed himself. Mental illness that comes from trauma can be temporary, but in some unfortunate cases, people suffering may make that permanent decision in that temporary frame of mind.
I can't say for certain that he would have eventually killed himself. It's silly to speculate because these decisions are irrational. We don't know if he had a history of mental illness, either anecdotally or with documentation. What we do know is that suicide (in these contexts) are indicative of mental illness.
In the legal system, you can argue that a defendant committed a crime in a state of "temporary insanity", and I'm sure if I dug into it, it would have merit from psychologists and the psychiatric field at large. Which basically means that under extreme duress, it is possible that you lose the ability to understand right and wrong, or logical reasoning altogether. In that state, you may decide to kill yourself. Or someone else. You do not, in the moment, understand that your decision is not the correct one. And it can and does end in tragedy.
So whether this young man has a history of mental illness, or simply lost his ability to reason and lost his ability to resist the urge to end his own life, he was ill. Maybe it was temporary, under duress from attacks for his participation in the protest. But ill nonetheless.