Fire officials don't know for certain if job-related stress led to his death, but they feel so strongly about the connection, they chose to give him the same service as if his death were related to his job. The officials said Newport News isn't the first department to give full honors to a member who dies by suicide, but it likely wouldn't have happened just a few years ago. Departments across the U.S. still struggle with deciding how to honor them, the officials said, but more are slowly starting to do the same.