"I wonder though, without anonymity, what would have happened?"<p>Actually, had there been full anonymity they wouldn't have had the email address, no contact would've been made and the help wouldn't have been possible.
“I am about to make my company a co-beneficiary of my life insurance. And, I will take my own life after that. I want to make it work for my investors and my company. I am done with this life. I am sorry.”<p>Something tells me that any life insurance policies have clauses for suicide, especially if you posted online prior to your suicide that you were about to scam them out of some money. Overall I think that mental illness is a very serious issue, however I feel like a startups anonymous seems pretty silly from what I can tell. That's just my $0.02.