Friend tried to hang himself, brain-dead now. Father of 3. Why?

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5. Yes, we get caught unexpecting in such crisis because things aren't shared

One of my younger brothers committed suicide about 6 months ago. His common law spouse was located with him and so maybe could have seen some signs, but she says no. I have no reason to doubt her. So the siblings don't really know anything but we have clues to guess about...2 year unemployment following loss of job from a painful chronic health problem, reliance on opioid pain killers (and potentially an expensive addiction), multiple week long hospitalizations in his last year and pride of self dissolving into financial dependence while sitting in a recently purchased more than McMansion in a gated community outside of Myrtle Beach.

For a former financial advisor who bragged he had acquired nearly a million bucks a decade ago, downside reality could have been emotionally brutal.

He left a suicide note, it seems written to ease the pain he was about to cause his s.o., rather than to explain his motivations. Silence on the matter was his to choose, likely because he perceived it as less painful than the sharing.

I wasn't really close to him, we'd actually become somewhat prickly strangers. But his twin really had thought there was closeness in a way special to twins. Consequently, the surviving twin had many questions and a lot of discomfort about that misunderstanding, anxiety about coming up short as a brother, and what if anything that led to suicide was/is also sleeping inside him.

Half a year later the surviving twin is closing in on readjustment...at least as much as can be seen based on what he's willing to share.