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He was also in the middle of testifying against the company that had made his life hell for years. That is a rather strange time to kill yourself.



I don’t know, it was presumably extremely stressful. Extremely stressful events or when a lot of people kill them themselves.

I don’t really have a strong opinion on this particular instance one way or another. It seems unlikely to me that even Boeing is like hiring hitman to whack people and make it look like suicide, and that seems much more unlikely than a guy who was about to commit suicide saying he wasn’t going to make it look that way.

But also, it is not impossible. People have undoubtedly killed for a lot less money than what this stuff is costing Boeing.


> I don’t know, it was presumably extremely stressful. Extremely stressful events or when a lot of people kill them themselves.

Or sometimes to attack the people who made their lives extremely stressful. Or someone who works for them. Or commit arson. But somehow that's not what we are observing


Perhaps he viewed Boeing’s malfeasance as killing people. It did. And it was a clever form of martyrdom. That’s not exactly 3D chess, it’s just thinking one move ahead.

I really have no idea. I just don’t think we can say definitively that he didn’t kill himself because he said he would not.


Mental health is not a logical thing. Try telling someone who's in their darkest moments to just look on the bright side. It doesn't work.


That’s why it always cracks me up (in a sad way) when people tell someone suffering an anxiety attack to just calm down, or someone depressed to cheer up. Like oh, why didn’t I think of that? Thanks genius!




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