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.
I agree with what you say. I think that maybe what I meant is that suicide is considered by people who erroneously think that it is a high-status move to quit the game. Though I didn't write this clearly in the post.
I sometimes have thoughts of suicide. That does not mean I would ever come within a mile of committing the act of suicide. But my brain does simulate it; though I do try to always reduce such thoughts.
But what I have noticed is that 'suicide' is triggered in my mind whenever I think of some embarrassing event, real or imagined. Or an event in which I'm obviously a low-status actor. This leads me to think that suicide might be a high-status move, in the sense that its goal is to recover status after some event which caused a big drop in status. Consider the following instances when suicide is often considered: