After? I read it as during. That may be just another way of saying he considered giving up hope (I can’t find the article online, but I think it is more likely he considered stopping to try and maintain fetal position than slicing his wrists, for example)

From what I read, keeping up hope is a huge factor in survival.

Most of the suicides are committed when a person starts believing suicide is the only way out. When a person has lost all reasons to live, and when he thinks there is nothing he can do, then he concludes suicide could be the only next natural act under his control.

You get to choose how and when to die instead of slowly becoming delerious and dying in tremendous pain from starvation/dehydration.