Should this message be public? (There might be insurance or other factors that we don't know about. We don't know for sure his intent in this case, and may never know.)
He had a long documented history of this type of action. And in the case of my dad (reading his insurance docs after he died of cancer), I found out that suicide still pays if it is at least a year after start of contract, since it is the result of mental illness rather than intentional fraud.