History Troll

Hamilton was suffering blows to almost every vital aspect of his life before his duel with Burr and when you add up his pain to his snowballing problems he was in a desperately bad place in life. When you add it up and look at how the events transpired suicide by duel starts to look not only plausible but probable. Burr is frequently maligned in history yet the guy wasn't as bad as his political opponents wanted everyone to believe.