Cheery, huh?
Look, most neophype scribes go through a "suicide = profound" phase. It doesn't mean every writer is depressed. We're just inward-looking people who have to work out some stuff, clear our collective throats if you will, before we can start working on things that are not, well, this.
And anyway, the subject matter doesn't necessarily make a story clichéd. It's what you do with it. So there.
The completed story can be found here!