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I don't get the point in trying to make sense of a death - he was broke, unemployed, used up etc - when the man seems to just have had mental issues long term.
by anjc 8y ago
I don't get the point in trying to make sense of a death - he was broke, unemployed, used up etc - when the man seems to just have had mental issues long term. Perhaps the stress of his existence might explain throwing food at a worker, but texting your sister about how bad poison tastes?
People shouldn't be using this as a warning-story, this guy had bigger issues than unemployment.
- danso 8y agoI agree that the reasons for suicide don’t often fit into the logical narrative that we imagine. For example, it’s hard to blame Aaron Swartz’s suicide completely on his fear of prison, given that he killed himself well before trial. But it doesn’t mean that the stress of prosecution had no impact on his state of well-being. Likewise, I think in this case, the impact of financial distress shouldn’t be discounted. He had been for years unhappy about being unemployed and poor. And he ended up killing himself just hours after the bank declined to cash the check he’d gotten from selling his possessions. I don’t see the way he texted his sister to be particularly abnormal, especially if he had a dramatic personality in life (being an aspiring actor and all). What is the normal way for someone to act after just having drank poison?
- anjc 8y ago> What is the normal way for someone to act after just having drank poison? I suppose you're right. I just don't think young people (in this thread) need to look at him and worry for their future.