I decided to write a different type of novel, one that's more drama/tragic filled than the one I was previously going to write. So this new novel I'm planning on writing will be titled, "Falsely Accused" and it's about a priest in a small town who is falsely accused of sexual misconduct and is severely villainized by the town's residents and his fellow priests of his own church, and as a result, he decides to end his life. However, I need my novel to be focused on realism and so, as such, I have some research questions to ask.
If I write in my novel that the priest takes ten Oxycodone prescription pills, ten over-the-counter Benadryl pills and ten over-the-counter Unisom pills and drinks and entire bottle of Arbor Mist alcohol, would all of that cause the priest to end his life? Because I want to write in the novel how the priest spirals into deep depression over being falsely accused that he decides to end himself but I want the method that he chooses to be realistic and not whereas readers read the novel and begin to think while reading: "yeah, right, this could never happen in real life."