I always perk up when I hear about a bounty
Since the subject was brought up this is is what I've discovered about them
Let say you accidentally kill 5 clean pilots at a rez site...."but officer it was just a stray shot and then he shot me and then his wing men shot at me and well you need to read my post about rules" lol
Anyway I now have a 35,000 cr bounty on my head, 5K for each kill.
This will be active for 6 days. Now suppose during that 6 days you are killed or like the OP you commit suicide. The bounty now goes dormant and the timer is reset to 6 days. Ok so no big deal, right? Wrong! If you are scanned with a dormant bounty it is reset to active and the timer is reset back to 6 days! So killing yourself is not a solution. You have to have someone else kill you and collect your bounty.
Now moving forward, suppose you actually don't die and the bounty times out. Its now becomes a fine that is staring you in the face every time you go to that station. So what, don't pay it, "screw'em" is what I always say lol Well I had a 390,000 cr fine at the Thome station in HIP 16607 and I accidentally killed an internal security Anaconda
I got a 5,000 cr bounty for the kill and the fine then became a bounty and the two were added together. WOW lol
So I've been playing for 3 months and my current active bounties are 465,000 cr way down from 4.7 million last week. I've been good, well sort of good. Lifetime bounties are almost 9 million and lifetime fines at about a million.