Status-hits are some of the most painful events in your life. Thoughts of suicide often emerge when you're feeling down since suicide is a possible escape and will reduce the pain.

But I agree that status also plays a role in the decision to kill yourself. If you really blow your brains out you can credibly signal that you were feeling really low and gain some sympathy and compassion. I guess ending one's own existence has also a unique, almost heroic flair to it. But that's maybe just my morbid sense of life.