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Following that link, I also came across https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592 https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592 "I'm choo

• rabidrat 7y ago
  He was in a lot of pain and wanted to die on his own terms. He was an advocate for dying with dignity, and his last message was to help normalize euthanasia. The creepiness you feel is your impetus to work through your feelings about death and come to terms with it, to admire his incredible clarity and mental ease without having to couch it in "it's his choice" terms. I thought at the time it was a touching piece of humanity and I am grateful he was bold enough to express it.
  • capableweb 7y ago
    Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my first message. I absolutely support the same thing and I don't mean creepy in a bad way. Maybe eerie is a better word for what I feel about public messages before passing away. I have no problem with voluntary eutanasia
• ocdtrekkie 7y ago
  If you check his website at http://hintjens.com/ http://hintjens.com/ you'll see "In April 2016 he was diagnosed with terminal metastasis of a previous cancer". So his choice was that or further suffering to the same end result.
• markvdb 7y ago
  Friends and I paid him a visit when he was already living on borrowed time. It was what he really wanted. I fondly remember the July 2005 party we had at his Molenbeek warehouse after defeating the EU software patents directive. His 4am African music and dance demonstration. Memories...