• Sigilos@ttrpg.network
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    6 hours ago
    The San Francisco medical examiner's office determined his death to be suicide and police found no evidence of foul play.
    

    Does anyone else find it statistically significant how often whistle blowers commit suicide within a few days of releasing information or making a statement?

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      6 hours ago

      One minute they’re all like “if I die it’s definitely not suicide” and the next they are changing their mind and going through with it…

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      5 hours ago

      Yes, but it’s important to not immediately assume that it’s because they’ve been killed.

      I’d wager a statistically significant amount of whistleblowers are actually just liars looking to get recognition. When their lie catches up with them, they realize they’ve lost the one thing they had going for them and decide to end it all.

      In the digital age where information can be shared so freely and so easily, there’s not really an excuse for whistleblowers to be like “wait until THIS date” before revealing their information.