Hello,
Sorry to hear so many are having to or have had to deal with these issues. I would seriously try to deal with underlying causes of suicide, mental illnesses. Depression is only part of the puzzle. With Bipolar disorder, suicide generally occurs after a period of severe depression ( they usually don't have the energy to take action during the deep hellish depression itself) however after that period, mania or even a period of normalacy occurs. They devise a plan to commit it and they even become happy and appear happy often when they kill themselves. They don't want to be in that hole of depression ever again. I knew a kid that had been trying to kill himself since childhood swallowed glass the first time, jumped from a low bluff the next and at nineteen he succeeded with a hunting rifle. He had these highs and lows. His father (a good friend of mine that has always appeared somewhat Bi-polar himself) had told me that his son had just came out of a severe depression and had seemed happier than he had been in his whole life, went hunting for the first time, killed a deer, and had seemed so amazed at how well his rifle had done the job of killing the animal. Within the following week the son had used the rifle on himself. I've seen so much suicide around here it beats those national averages all apart. Considering it is such a small populated area. You'd think there would be a Mars/Uranus or Saturn involvement for this type of suicide.
Another type of suicide is far less planned. Implusive suicide, I had a classmate who killed himself after being rejected from a girl. He shot himself inside his van. Another man living less than a mile from me growing up did the rifle/coat hanger method and he killed himself the day after his mother died. Although he had been known to say he would die when his mother died. Let's face the fact that people don't always react like they say they will about a future event although obviously he did. His sister had killed herself too. Alcohol was a factor in all three of these suicides. They were all intoxicated so you'd think that Mars Neptune/Jupiter affliction had to be involved in some way with this particular type of suicides because of there is often a drug alteration of some type involved.
One must look at depression as a cause all by itself because people not even suffering severe depression can take their lives, but most often its worse than the people will ever know around them will ever know. Saturn must be looked at with this type of suicides. It also depends on how each individual reacts to their depression (personality disorders).
The act of suicide has markers of its own which include Uranus obviously, Mars afflictions, having a twelfth house emphasis, the planet ruling one's natal twelfth house is afflicted, and when Saturn is in stressful aspects to the Sun,Moon or the Ascendant.
Suicidal tendencies occur when one has afflictions in or to the eighth house.
Bipolar disorders have been observed most often when Mars is afflicted, Neptune in the first house, having Saturn in Libra, Sagittarian Sun, Gemini/Sagittarius Ascendant/Descendant axis.
Depression has a rather long list of astrological markers, as it should, for so many suffer some degree of it. A Saturn or Capricorn emphasis,Saturn in the first, third, or sixth houses,Saturn afflicted in Virgo, Afflicted Arian Mercury, Moon/ Neptune aspects, Mercury/ Saturn aspects,Venus /Saturn aspects, Moon/Saturn aspects, Saturn near Midheaven, Mercury/ Pluto aspects, Saturn/ Neptune aspects, Sun/ Saturn in aspect to Mid heaven, Moon/ Saturn in aspect to Midheaven, Pluto is in the Saturn ruled or co-ruled signs of Capricorn and Aquarius, Mars in aspect to Saturn and Neptune. I didn't see one mention of Jupiter with depression.
Depressive Psychosis is most common when Neptune is near Midheaven or when Mercury is in aspect to Neptune and Midheaven.
I have read, and for the life of me I can't remember where, that when Mercury is in bad aspect to Uranus, and you become sick or disabled, these natives are more prone to use suicide as a way out. I think it was in William Lily actually or something similiar, but not in these exact words if it was Lily.
I personally went through a few attempts myself within the first five years of being sick and disabled with severe Dystonia (Neurological muscle spasm disorder. Muscles would stay in some level of a spasmodic state for weeks at a time) and Arthritis (anklosing spondylitis and its related illnesses). I had been such a self reliant type who had great pride in his sixth house talents and I felt at the time that they had been all thrown out the window. I lost hope. With severe muscle spasms (especially my spine) nearly all over my body and eventually even my face on a daily basis, it can help you make bad decisions and impair judgement. I didn't really want to die I merely wanted to escape the torment by taking overdoses to just "shut down" I can now see. But I had depressive tendencies before that which by and large had ignored. My Mercury is only in semisquare to Uranus so maybe the energy or will for suicide is not strong enough for me to do it maybe, but I have other other factors as well, My Neptune near midheaven would explain why my depression and my perception was unrealistic ( a nicer word than psychotic LOL) and my mercury trines that Neptune. Thankfully I am doing so much better and Dystonia has pretty much left after fifteen years, as they said it would eventually. But I still take a small dose of anti-spasmodic medication to be safe.
Take Care all, really so!
Franklin