No, it is not obvious to friends and family when someone is depressed and suffering. Most of the time everyone is surprised by a suicide because it wasn't obvious. The yellow flags can be very subtle. .
This is such a tragedy, there must be more to the story but we may never know. Have some compassion people.

Well, I wonder what the CEO of Friendster is thinking about right now.

Totally interested in the toxicology test results.

A few of the posters could just relax on the "I'm gonna push this first before it pushes me" type of comments.

Anyone who commits suicide is extremely tortured by something that is not for us to understand. It was for him, and is always for anyone, a personal choice.

If some of you who can't at least have compassion, try to understand that you don't get to decide when the worse day of your life will be.

Some who will try to conclude as to what drove this young man to do it are the same who are unable to come to terms with ever accepting something that is out of their control.

You must have respect in his decision that, even though it must have been more obvious to him than us that his future would have been promising, his judgement was his own.

This headline is incorrect. As stated in the text, Ilya's death has not been officially declared a suicide. Whatever happened to guidelines, ethics and objectivity in reporting? Oh, right, all the media outlets have been bought and paid for. Apparently this one as well.

And, like others on this forum, I also question the likelihood of suicide when his project was just getting underway and was receiving such support. Seems like there are many big money interests that would benefit from sabotaging a social network where the information is not for sale.

Just my 2¢.

Well, with suicide he can't be buried in a jewish cemetary. Now he has to be buried with the goyim. ewwwwwwwww.

Agree. Especially when that kind of money is around, it's odd. It seems way too easy to say "Oh, he must not have been able to handle whatever the pressure was," or "Oh he must have been depressed." Listen to the video and he just doesn't have the suicide vibe.

suicide is an attempt to punish those you work with (or love) for rejection; be it an idea (or jilted love). Too bad, we needed more like him.

OMG, are you stupid or what. Please think about your comments before you post them.

I've been around several suicides over the years and non of them were attempts at punishing others. Some grew tired of waking up in the morning. Others where heart broken and felt life wasn't worth living. Couple of them were a mystery as nobody really could figure out the motive behind it. Never have I heard of someone committing suicide out of anger, which is what you are suggesting. I have even been locked up for threatening suicide to draw attention. That doesn't mean I would have actually done it though.

Someone has to be severely hurt emotionally and in a state of not caring about life (In my case afterlife) before they could actually finish the act of committing suicide.

^This.

Also, RIP to Ilya Zhitomirskiy.

suspicious.