I can sense how much emotional trauma those guys must have gone through. I actually felt for Akio Kashiwagi who Lost $19 million and was murdered in his home and it could be as a result of debts he could be owing. It's really sad how people get so trapped by gambling addiction and get so engrossed in that that help becomes an impossible mission.
That's the worst thing that can happen to a gambler losing huge money and eventually losing his life from being murdered from loan or suicide, there's data I read that many commit suicide because of gambling because they lose everything, and they thought it's the end of the road for them, they have no friends or someone to talk to or in some cases, they kept it all by themselves until it becomes unbearable.
When someone loses big money from gambling, he will think that his life is ending at that time and there is nothing more he can do to solve the problem.
Many gambling problems end by commit suicide instead search for a way to solve the problem but that will depend on the gambler itself because if he still cares about his life, he will ask for some help to get the way.
But I feel that if he has other people who know better about him, they will know that something wrong happened to him and ask him about his problem.
Maybe that can be good for that gambler as he can tell them that he is in trouble and need them to help him find the solution.