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(11-27-2018 11:53 AM)grubs Wrote:  

(11-26-2018 11:19 AM)marcuscan Wrote:  

(11-26-2018 09:44 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(11-26-2018 08:46 AM)chatcat Wrote:  

(11-25-2018 11:40 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  So what is the deal? Did he he kill himself?

Very puzzling. No mention of cause of death in any of the articles or even in the obituary.

Looks like his son confirmed suicide on FB. For whatever reason there is a media black out of sorts on this. RIP Tom. Keep an eye on your friends and family.

I figured it was something of this nature. The media blackout, and the way the convo was very forcible shut down on BCL made it pretty obvious.

Strange on a lot of fronts, tbh. Suicide swept under the carpet, almost as a disgraceful thing doesn't help.

Regardless of how someone passes, it's sad, and unfortunate.

RIP



mc

Suicide Contagion. I'm pretty sure there's been an unwritten rule in mass media to tread carefully when covering suicide going back decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide

Oh yeah, absolutely a thing. We only hear about suicides when it's a celeb. I feel like i was listening to a Freakonomics podcast about this a year or 2 ago.

That said, it's total BS. We talk up gun violence all the time, yet even with all the gun violence deaths it only makes up 50% of self inflicted gun-related deaths. I'm not taking a stand on guns here, i'm just saying that NOT talking about suicide - be it gun-related, or not - has done nothing to tamp down it happening.

All we're doing is perpetuating the faux shame associated with feelings of wanting to kill yourself. Mental illness is real and it sucks we sweep it under the rug.





mc