• FuglyDuck
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      175 months ago

      From the article linked in my original comment:

      But Barnett’s lawyers said in a statement following his death that his deposition was nearing an end and he appeared to be in good spirits.

      “We didn’t see any indication he would take his own life. No one can believe it,” his lawyers, Robert Turkewitz and Brian Knowles, said in a statement on March 12.

      • @[email protected]
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        -95 months ago

        What are people going to say, “Yeah, I knew he was gonna do it, but I had other shit going on so I ignored it.” Meaningless quote you hear all too often after people commit suicide unfortunately. And I don’t mean to admonish anyone, but who comes out afterwards and says “Yeah, his life was shit and he was a miserable fuck it was only a matter of time.”

        • FuglyDuck
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          45 months ago

          I remember highschool people saying that. It was only the kids family, and the bullies and drama whores (that don’t know him,)

          The fiends all said he was bullied and his home life wasn’t so good.

          That his lawyers are saying it is more meaningful than if his family was.

            • FuglyDuck
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              -15 months ago

              We generally don’t see all the warts in the people closest to us, and family is more likely to want to put an idealized version of people out there.

              Look at comments by parents of active shooters, to the effect of “I didn’t raise a monster, I don’t know why this happened,”.

                • FuglyDuck
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                  05 months ago

                  Are you seriously not seeing why professional contacts would be more likely to have a fair opinion and share it? It’s his lawyers that said he didn’t seem suicidal.

                  Or are you seriously just trying to insist it’s not suspicious any way you can?

      • arglebargle
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        -135 months ago

        You said everyone. Then cited his lawyers. Shouldn’t they be in the same category as the cops?