Yes and no. Suicide could be caused by any number of things. Yes, maybe some are preventable; some are maybe inevitable. I don't know the answer to that question.
I can tell you that contributing factors that have been brought up during this committee certainly have pushed many vets to the edge. Well, if you have a vet who is already on the edge, who then gets a kick in the teeth from VAC, it further provides him, in his own mind, with the evidence he's searching for to end it all—yes, nobody cares, nobody wants to look out for the vet, so whatever.
Again, well-intentioned programs sometimes do the opposite of what they're trying to achieve, in my opinion.