Why did Tony Scott, "Top Gun" director, at 68 commit suiicide?

It is about being better

              
                        Tony Scott with his trademark baseball cap

News has it this week that Tony Scott, a director of "Top Gun" fame jump to his death at an LA suspension bridge.  He was 68.

Tony Scott jumps to his death from a bridge

The idea behind self development, self mastery, is Emotional Intelligence (by Daniel Goleman) is the ability to control and motivate oneself and ability to control others.

It deals with extreme emotion like guilt, panic, remorse, depression.  The events and the cause leading to the suicide will remain unanswered.  The dead carried their secrets with them.

Bad experience is supposed to temper oneself and make the subject stronger, tougher, if not more resilient.

                                
                                  


The top gun, Tom Cruise, handled the event when the girl/instructor "lost the loving feeling"