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You don’t need to share your theories on someone’s death to the world. It’s not your place and serves no purpose.

When I had a friend that was well-known in the tech world pass, all sorts of people came out with conspiracy theories on what his “real” cause of death was. To the bereaved, coming across random theories just hurts. Outside of that, opining without any medical expertise or insights on how he died serves no one but your own ego

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The comment is 90% just talking about that type of cancer, irrespective of whether Technoblade had it. It's a bit extreme to try and stifle discussion just because we don't know with complete certainty that it's what he had.

You probably shouldn't do it in an obituary or something but this is just a HN thread.

And not only that, it was really informative. I never had heard of this kind of cancer, and the description was short and extremely on-point. Now I know it is a thing, that it has (possibly) not seen enough attention, and that it is hard (and in many cases impossible) to heal.

It's literally the kind of comment I want to see here.

He was talking about the type of cancer the thinks technoblade had.

And you know what? He wasn't wrong.

Quote from his website.

    > In honor of his memory, a portion of the proceeds from all online orders will be donated to a wonderful organization called curesarcoma.org

Read past the first line. My kneejerk reaction was that it was terrible to speculate the type of cancer. But the rest of the comment makes it clear that he was not guessing to sound smart, he was doing it to inform and start a discussion on that type of cancer.

Well given that there are fundraisers in his name for sarcoma research, and the symptoms and treatment he discussed in his videos are typical for osteosarcoma, I thought it would help to post a comment about the current state of osteosarcoma treatment.

A trifle harsh...

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