People don't do such things

Um... Act 4 was kind of a disappointment. I mean WTF Lovborg?
The man had so much going for him:
an awesome manuscript that could be replecated
an awesome girl who was totally in love with him
<3
and he had just regained control over his life.
This play is utterly depressing. I am usually a crtique of the new-age happy-ending and everyone wins type literature but this play makes me love that kind of sappy writing. In the end evil[Hedda] won. Good[Lovborg] committed suicide and love[Thea] and simplicity[George] were left trying to put the pieces together.
Seriously I refuse to believe that Lovborg killed himself. If he was so over Hedda and no longer under her spell her giving him a gun would not have affected him that much. If someone gives you a gun that doesn't mean you have to kill your self.
I do find it sweet however that he was so pained by losing the connection that he and Thea had that he went back to find it.
But why did he have to die? He was the only decent male character in this play. The only man not concerned with power,greed, or devored by Hedda(until the end that is).
In retrospect I see now that Loovborg was a foil to all the other charcters in his independence and ~morality. Its not morality really as much as he had control over his own actions for the longest.
In comparison to George he is more refined, educated and scholarly because he looks at the world and evaluates it and extrapolates from the information that he acquires while Geoge's head is always in a book and he knows little about the world and spends all his time in the past instead of relishing the present and planning for the future.
Lovborg and Brack are also complete opposites because where as the Judge is concerned with power and status, Lovborg is concerned with himself and doing what he feel sis best for him like publishing a manuscript that is his true self while having the courage to take any critisim of him and his work that would arise.The Judge is so scared of outside forces especially Lovborg upsetting his routine that he becomes savage and brutish when trying to preserve his way of life.