It is very sad news if this is true.
Suicide is a very selfish act.
I think it could have held some importance to him that people over the internet knew, especially if he spent quite a lot of time on the internet, and not much time socializing outside of it.
Many non-religious people believe that once they die, they, essentially, disappear from life ("deleted", you might even say) there is quite untrue.
Where there is a true afterlife, and this belief of "delition" is quite untrue. I do not think I need to speak of what happens to those who commit suicide (an unforgivable sin) once they die, but, God, have mercy.
