Well, you can interpret the article in both ways. I find it funny that people always assume you need to have a bad mood to commit suicide. What I find rather troubling is that the Prof Copeland is trying to sell us the hormone treatment as a "jolly good time". While it is right that he should be remembered more for his life than for his death, I find that article as a whole rather below what I would expect from the BBC.

I do take some offense in " would feel so guilty and ashamed over what he was". I think we never was ashamed or guilty of being either brilliant or homosexual. If he killed himself than it was because of the inhumane treatment of him by the state.

No matter how he died, he deserved a better life.

I don't know why he died, but that article does raise enough points to make me question the ruling of suicide.
We honestly can't tell what was going on in his mind. Some people put on a happy front while in fact they are horribly miserable, hormone treatment doesn't help either.
I knew a bloke who killed himself while at uni. I had been collaborating with him on a presentation which we gave together several days before he killed himself. I had no bloody idea. He was always cheerful and pleasant to talk to and put in effort into his work. It came as a complete shock.

The professor isn't stating that the treatment was pleasant. He was stating how Turing's personallity seemed and what he said leading upto when he killed himself. None of us can say whether that is how he truly felt or whether he was trying to hide how he really felt.

Regarding my comment of feeling guilty and ashamed, homosexuality was seen as sexual deviancy and inproper, I don't doubt that some people would associate his homosexuality being revealed with shame and then suicide.

I don't see this article as stating that it was an accident, the professor himself says that there isn't sufficient evidence and the best verdict is to leave it open and unknown.

Edit; yes, he should have been treated better. That a man who contributed so much to applied science, math and computing as well as helping to save 10s of thousands of lives and shorten the war could be treated so badly is truly disgusting.

British people can sign a petition to put Turing's picture on the next issue of the £10 note at https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/31659

A true hero! If only it had been realised at the time. I will certainly be signing the petition to get him put on the £10 note.

RIP Alan Turing.

I'm not British, but that does seem like a good idea.

Turing arguably made a greater contribution to the Allies' victory than any other person. Churchill once said, "It was thanks to Ultra that we won the war," and others said that its work shortened the war by two years at the very least. Ultra was more than just Turing, of course, but he was surely its most important member.

The way they treated him was truly horrible. It shows a lack of tolerance turns humans into savages.

What many people don't know about Turing is that he theorized a system about cellgrowth and how it was chemically influenced, something that over a decade later was discovered as DNA, RNA.

Thanks for that, just signed it.