In AA, they call it playing the tape: encouraging alcoholics to really think through in detail the exact sequence of events that will occur after relapse.
So when it came time to discuss the portrayal of the protagonist’s suicide in 13 Reasons Why, I of course immediately flashed on my own experience.
To play the tape through is to see the ultimate reality that suicide is not a relief at all—it’s a screaming, agonizing, horror.
It overwhelmingly seems to me that the most irresponsible thing we could’ve done would have been not to show the death at all.