No one knows why Christina killed herself. According to her friends and colleagues, it was completely unexpected and after the end of a completely normal day. So sad that now I feel like that's a theme...
You're totally right with your first point. When I was applying for match, that was 100% my mentality. I'm hoping to go into a competitive specialty and so the mentality of "I can do anything for a year. I can live anywhere for a year. I can put up with anything for a year," is there. For me, personally, it's true... at least right now. I guess I can't make that judgment until I'm actually in the thick of it.
I agree with other posters about the lack of school resources, or making them sound less than enticing if they were there. I will never forget the meeting the Dean had with third year students when I was a third year. He had a great platform on which to detstigmatize mental health at a point in the curriculum when we were all feeling low and when I know for a fact that several classmates had started antidepressants simply to deal with that year. Unfortunately, he made comments about how we weren't "mentally ill, but mentally unhealthy," and we don't need to "seek a professional," but should instead "talk to [our] friends," because they know us best... Such awful advice for someone that is actually suffering from clinical depression or anxiety. There is no shame in seeking professional help and no shame in needing pharmacological intervention. I really wish he'd pushed that, instead of telling us that none of us in the room were mentally ill.