No authority needed. The article is critical, but it gives sufficient explanations not to be insulting to someone who can read. Your non-reading is indeed proof of the pudding of what I mean by low level talk on suicide. Just an example, when you say:

<<Among the suicide notes I’ve read, none of them have included abstract discussions of ethical systems.>> <<logical systems of ethical divorced from all human sense and emotion.>> <<self-consistent ethical frameworks>>, etc.

What? It sounds like you have scared yourself and, unfortunately, if you are playing therapist, abused others as well. When did tragedy, plays, and literature, become abstract ethical, self-consistent, and logical systems “ divorced from all sense and emotion”? Ethics, in the hands of the poets and tragedians, in the pre-philosophical sense of the term, has neither been abstract nor a logical system, etc., but about pathos and desire. With a bit more patience, and just the attendance of a good piece of theatre, perhaps the libidinal basis of ethics will begin to make sense one day and allow you to discover something you did not already know about suicide you did not learn “on the job”. I would suggest Antigone.

In any case, thanks for helping to verify why there is so much work to be done.

S