Superpilot
Reasons for committing suicide:
1. Loss of dearest loved one
2. De-debilitating disease
3. Extreme physical pain
4. Ideological reasons
5. Financial hardship (huge loans, low pay in comparison, no way seen out of the mess).
Which one would you most associated with an otherwise talented young German First Officer?
Well I fly in the corporate bizjet world and looking from the outside inwards number 5 has been generated in most airlines with pay2fly schemes, maybe the bean counters and senior management need to take a long hard think about the future recruitment processes.
Certainly in the bizjet world paying for your own rating or training is thankfully rare as often the end result is usually no chance of getting a job.