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> he lost interest in living

I get what you're trying to accomplish with the parallel construction, but that's a pretty callous way to describe it :/

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I'm sorry I upset you. I didn't mean to.

>I'm sorry (if) I upset you. I didn't mean to.

The poster didn't express that he was upset. He expressed an opinion that your description was callous.

I wasn't upset, and I certainly wasn't trying to imply I was. But that doesn't change that it makes me a little sad to see people refer to suicide with such a lack of empathy.

I am surprised that you read my remark as lacking empathy, but I have deleted the remarks I had written here about my actual feelings about the event, because this doesn't seem like a very promising conversation.

He died from a massive drug overdose right?

Yes, although we didn't find out for sure until several months later. It was too massive to be an accident.

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