> I’ve decided to follow my son. There is no point living without him. Everything I touch, I ruin. I only stayed for him. And now he’s gone,” she wrote on an unverified Twitter account linked to her official account.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/entertainment/sinead-oconnor-...

heart breaking to hear :(

> Shane died in January 2022. A week later, following a series of tweets in which she indicated that she was going to kill herself, O'Connor was hospitalised.

Wikipedia

Many artists die from suicide. When a young artist dies, I usually assume drugs or suicide.

My mind goes to suicide.

It's not really random though.

She's announced she was going to do it before and to be fair she's always had more than her fair share of mental troubles, sadly. As someone who is also cursed with those I know how hard that can be and I didn't even lose a child.

Withholding the cause is what leads to speculation and I don't think it's a bad guess in this case.

Personally I think it's better if they just announced it because believe it or not something like this can also lead to good things. Because it can make people think, realise these things happen and notice the signs in people around them.

There would have been no speculation if the family had stated an uncontroversial cause of death. Instead they "requested privacy", which means it was likely something people would have judged her for.