Artists who die untimely deaths tend to experience surges in popularity, but suicide is, in general, a particularly low status death.

In fact, children (and adults) will often just leave a game they're not very good at and disparage the rest of the players for playing

This behavior overwhelmingly tends to be viewed with derision. The actor might want their action to be interpreted that way, but overwhelmingly it will tend to be read as such a sloppy attempt at preventing status loss as to incur even more loss of status.

Further, after a person is dead, he/she is almost always celebrated (at least for a while) and all their faults are forgotten.

Suicide is usually sufficiently low status that it's one of the few situations in which people can openly criticize the recently deceased without serious risk of status loss.