Re: Fwd: petition to remove Aaron Swartz prosecutor

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:34:32 -0500, Jeffrey Walton said:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:26 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:15:09 -0500, Jeffrey Walton said:
> > > From the Full Disclosure mailing list.
> > >
> > > Schwartz recently committed suicide over the incident.
> >
> > Do we have any confirmation that the suicide was directly caused by
> > the legal issues?  Like a suicide note that says so?
>
> His family made the statement:
> http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/12/local/la-me-0113-aaron-swartz-20130113.

Yes, that's what his *family* said.  What did *Aaron* say?

> From the same article:

"On his blog, Swartz had written of his history of depression."

So it may have have been one contributing cause, but it's not a slam dunk
to conclude a direct causal relationship "court case therefor suicide". For
all we know, he's been having those thoughts for *years*, and Friday was
simply the day that he woke up and realized there was no way he could face
Saturday.

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