Was anybody else troubled by the reaction to Mark Madoff's suicide?

[Mike 03]

Half the comments I read online said basically, "He was so greedy that he got what he deserved" and the other fifty percent said "It is so selfish to kill yourself, he did the wrong thing because he was so selfish."

As someone who has suffered from clinical depression, I am very sensitive to opinions about people who get depressed, and I tend to feel sad when people kill themselves. Mark Madoff had not been charged with any criminal offenses, and I have no knowledge of whether he was or was not guilty, other than the facts that he went to authorities when he learned his father had constructed a ponzi scheme. He and his children had been sued three days before he killed himself.

I am not a defender of criminals, but I feel terrible that this has happened, especially since there is not much evidence that Mark Madoff had any knowledge that his father was running a criminal enterprise.

For some reason this case just touches me. I feel bad for members of the Madoff family who were not involved in the criminal enterprise but have paid the price. Suicide is sad. And some of the gleeful comments I have seen (not on DU) so happy that this man killed himself chill me.