I see suicide as often a reaction to the pain of a decrease in status, particularly when the status decrease is believe to be permanent.

I'd suggest, however, that much of the pain of the status change is temporary. I've had my own setbacks. The new lower status state is not so fearsome and horrible that it can't be faced. It's refusing to face the change that prolongs the pain. Suicide is a strategy to evade the pain of the evasion of the truth.