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Dave Goldberg Died After Falling from Treadmill
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- thieving_magpie 12y agoThat article is one giant pile of trash.
- jgrahamc 12y agoWow. That article sucks. Why did you even post it?
- tunesmith 12y agoHoly crap that was brutal and unnecessary. For others who don't want to experience the depravity, it's some low-life theorizing that his wife drove him to suicide.
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- hoodoof 12y agoIt's a little odd to be so overtly lacking in compassion soon after someone's death - sounds like she has a real issue with Sheryl Sandberg.
- albemuth 12y agoI stopped reading her blog long ago because it started getting increasingly inflammatory, quite transparent controversy for the sake of page views. Looks like she hasn't a milligram of respect left, can't get any worse than this.
- BallinBige 12y agoman, what a freak accident... I wonder if there were any cameras lodged that caught it..
- albemuth 12y agoOne would hope there weren't any.
- andyl 12y agoFrom running on a treadmill to a traumatic injury in the lower back of his head, fell and bled to death, found 2 1/2 hours later in a pool of blood. Yesterday the story was heart-attack. After a several day delay this story comes out. I smell murder or suicide.
- rdl 12y agoUnlikely to bleed to death while conscious. However, if the impact causes unconsciousness (highly likely from head trauma), a bleed-at-not-otherwise-concerning rate is going to be a real problem. Humans need watchdog processors. Even if we have to build them and add them. Something which watched your vitals in the background and alarmed when they became critical would be great. "Heart attack" was probably someone extrapolating from "middle aged guy dies during exercise". Unless you actually had M.E. information beyond that, the natural assumption would be heart attack, and you'd be right 90% of the time.
- torsday 12y agoThis is why I'm excited about the development of the Apple watch and similar ubiquitous metrics. From the heart rate alone you could determine many significant cardiac events, e.g. A-fib, PSVT, heart blocks...
- PhantomGremlin 12y agoUnfortunately the FDA is very reluctant to allow use of features like that. E.g. the watch already has the hardware to be a pulse oximeter, but that's not one of the advertised features.
- rdl 12y agoYeah -- pervasive monitoring gives you three awesome things: 1) Per-user baselines (e.g. my natural temperature is 36C) in a non-clinical environment (to avoid "white coat" syndrome; from working in a hospital, my BP spikes to 140/90 when I'm around incompetent providers, and is 120/80 normally) 2) Great longitudinal measurements to see changes over time 3) Detecting emergencies instantly
- stevecalifornia 12y agoI wish to go out like this. I would rather meet my end in a quick instant while on vacation in Mexico than over 10 years with dementia in a old folks home. He got all the perks of a good life without having to experience the downsides of becoming old and frail.
- andrewguenther 12y agoIs this really the way you would want to leave your family though?
- droopyEyelids 12y agoI don't know if you've dealt with any relatives getting dementia, but I don't believe anything could be worse than your brain and personality dying and leaving your relatives with a failing living body. One of the things dementia destroys is your ability to swallow. Most demented people end up dying of pneumonia after getting some food in their lungs. That means one of most time consuming and simple parts of your body's day needs to be constantly supervised and aided, which means either your family giving up a huge part of their life to babysitting a horrible flesh golem, or paying an enormous amount of money for some sort of care worker. Yes, I would MUCH rather leave my family after falling off a treadmill than dementia. I'd rather have a heart attack or brain aneurism or get sucked into a wood chipper in front of my whole family than mentally die of dementia and leave behind my body— burden almost beyond imagination— while destroying their memory of who I was.
- MichaelGG 12y agoDoesn't dementia come on a bit slowly? At first sign of irreversible damage, setup a good bye party and take some opiate+benzo injection
- GabrielF00 12y agoHopefully not at age 47.
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- jsat 12y agoThis article seems irrelevant in the context of Hacker News. His death was tragic, and the details of his death are morbid and off topic.
- glibgil 12y agoAnd yet it made it to the front page. Hacker News wants what Hacker News wants.
- downandout 12y agoTreadmills are dangerous. Mike Tyson's daughter was strangled to death by a cord attached to one, and now this. This is one reason I prefer an elliptical (it also drastically reduces wear and tear on your body vs. a treadmill and gives you a better workout). This is very sad regardless of how he died. It just goes to show that you always need to have your affairs in order. They were an extraordinarily wealthy family and will be just fine financially, but most people aren't and need to be prepared at all times. You just never know what will happen.
- mianos 12y agoSuch a bummer. The only people who deserve to die like this are the writers of web hijackers and viruses, multiple times. This guy was someone who promoted time at home to be part of the kids growing up, something most dads miss out on, still.