If the thread is to remain then I think that all replies should remain, not just those that agree with the original poster.
I was in favour of removal of the thread due to the damaging effect it was having on people with depression with the suggestion that somehow they had chosen this living hell. But I think to keep the thread and just positive responses is even more offensive, so I would like to have my posts reinstated please.

ETA I would have probably kept my opinions to myself if it weren't a sticky. Making it a sticky makes it much harder to let it slide, particularly when it is obviously upsetting to so many. This is not simply a difference of opinion, it is leaving something that people have expressed great upset from, stuck on the board forever more, to keep picking at the scab. The average poster does not have the power to post their opinions as a sticky. With power comes responsibility.