“A few weeks ago, Internet activist and Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz committed suicide.
He left no note in his New York apartment explaining his death. Many assumed the 26-year-old was depressed based on an earlier blog post Swartz had written.
Swartz was facing potential jail time for hacking into MIT’s computer network and stealing copies of 4.8 million academic papers.
But Swartz’s live-in girlfriend, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, doesn’t think depression killed Aaron.
She, like Swartz’s father, believes the government indirectly killed Swartz. And her words are damning.
“I believe that Aaron’s death was not caused by depression…I say this because, since his suicide, as I’ve tried to grapple with what happened, I’ve been learning. I’ve researched clinical depression and associated disorders. I’ve read their symptoms, and at least until the last 24 hours of his life, Aaron didn’t fit them.
…I believe Aaron’s death was caused by exhaustion, by fear, and by uncertainty. I believe that Aaron’s death was caused by a persecution and a prosecution that had already wound on for 2 years…”
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