Labelling: A Lesbian Suicide?

"In November last year, television fitness expert Angie Dowds killed herself jumping from Beachy Head. Last week's inquest reveals that Dowds, who'd previously struggled with addictions, had toxic levels of alcohol and drugs in her system at the time of her death. She was also anxious about work and had split from her partner, to whom she sent a text: "My heart is broken, my spirit is broken." Such a sad story, and one which requires no embellishment. Why, then, was the fact that Dowd was a lesbian deemed so intrinsic to the tragedy? When a human being feels so beaten and lost that only suicide is the answer, what does their sexuality have to do with it?
"Dowds was a lesbian, but her suicide was not lesbian. Dowds had a sexual orientation, but her death didn't...
"Even today, there are still times when people's sexuality has a direct bearing on their death – such as the ongoing persecution of gay people all over the world and the recent spate of suicides of bullied gay teenagers. Sometimes a death, or a suicide, truly warrants being defined as "gay" or "lesbian". Angie Dowd's didn't, and the rush to label it makes me wonder just how much we've really moved on."

The great Barbara Ellen writing in The Observer. 
Headline illustration from the Daily Mail, natch.
But what of the inverse of this - The Obituary Closet?