Oh, please.

Depression isn't a death sentence. Not everyone who's depressed kills herself. Stop making it sound like ovarian cancer.

Regardless of his clinical diagnosis, DFW was a self-involved boob who has selfishly left his family a terrible mess. We don't need to "understand" him.

Modern art may perhaps be judged w/o reference to the artist's life. Post-modern art cannot be. Indeed, that's 1/2 of what being post-modern is: consider the artist, not just the work.

DFW says: read my books, read "me".

He comes to suicide. Thus, his books do, too.

Cry over someone else.

Maybe for his wife...