The troubles with societies acceptance on queer identities has been an issue for a very long time. One of the consequences of unaccepted queer identities is the commitment of suicide. In Fun Home, Bechdel uses the suicide of her father to understand how outcast individuals end up taking their life because they are not accepted socially and emotionally. For Bechdel, her fathers suicide is comprehensible. Who will be happy in a life where one’s identity is not acknowledge and furthermore not accepted by you. Bechdel states that “When I try to project what Dad’s life might have been like if he didn’t die in 1980, I don’t get very far” (195). Her Dad’s life had no meaning because he was suffering to come out as his true identity, that he was gay. Hiding one’s identity is eventually having a sickness inside of you that is hard to take off or to explain. Years and years pass and hiding your identity can eventually lead to a breakthrough that could lead to a relief or death. If he would of continue, he will be hurt both physically and emotionally. This is because he was not able to express who he was, his true identity. Bechdel will rather see his father dead then “If he’d lived into those early years of AIDS, I tell myself, I might very well have lost him anyway, and in a more painful way” (195). She accepts that in order for him to escape his true identity he needed to escape from this world, he needed to escape from himself. Bechdel accepts her fathers death in order to understand one decision that he was able to make. A decision that was hard but nonetheless he committed to it.