[anon-sre-srm]

Perhaps:

A. Most people dismiss an actual conspiracy to murder a whistleblower witness as a conspiracy theory automatically. Such a cliché seems possible. Remember, Boeing is run by MD dickhead bros who traded in camel fucking magazine covers.

B. He wanted additional scrutiny on Boeing, and was willing to die for it.

C. Friend is seeking attention.

It will require honest and diligent investigation to be sure it was truly suicide because none of us know from afar. C seems most likely.

[XorNot]

Option 0: people tend to be blindsided when someone in their life suffering from depression kills themselves. This is because if you see it coming, usually you go all out to intervene. It is ridiculously common for people to report that someone who seemed like they enduring mental hardship "was doing better" in the days before their suicide.

I'm finding the immediate "it was an an assassination" rhetoric gross and unproductive here, because what it's dismissing is a very real problem: becoming a whistleblower tends to ruin people's lives between the media scrutiny, the legal scrutiny, the career jeopardy and being in and out of court rooms. Marriages breakdown, and people get depressed or develop substance problems.

"He was assassinated" is just casually ignoring the fact that Boeing can kill this man dead completely legally through the normal shitshow which is the legal wringer whistleblowers get put through.

[anon-sre-srm]

Duh. I mentioned A to dismiss it rather than invite inevitable conspiracy theories.

His lawyers came out almost immediately claiming he seemed in good spirits. Perhaps this was a superficial assessment or he was hiding his true feelings.

Like I said, wait until the investigation is complete because we don't know. It seems like the friend and media are grabbing attention rather than doing anything constructive.

[vmttmv]

Any other alternative should surely be dismissed immediately in the land of the brave and home of the world police, the bonafide benefactors.