Whatever the truth of this crash, I wonder what the ensuing discussions will means for pilots who have or who have suffered depression?
It's a very common disease, even in its severe forms. People differ in their resilience, but practically everybody will crack up mentally given a sufficiently adverse sequence of events. Most will recover and return to being productive members of society.
The important thing to remember is that most depressed pilots don't end up killing themselves or anybody else. And also that enabling people to seek support for their depression without fear of censure is likely to be safer than draconian options such as forcing them to work through an episode, hiding it from their peers at risk of losing their careers if they're found out.