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A piece of information in this article which is not in that article:

> The family says Barnett's health declined because of the stresses of taking a stand against his longtime employer.

> "He was suffering from PTSD and anxiety attacks as a result of being subjected to the hostile work environment at Boeing," they said, "which we believe led to his death."

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(This comment was originally a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39682698 but we merged that thread hither. So when it says "this article" it means https://www.npr.org/2024/03/12/1238033573/boeing-whistleblow..., not the link at the top of the current thread.)

Driving someone to suicide is also a direct cause of death, and should be treated as such.

Being direct cause of death is treated very differently based on mens rea, or intent. Assassinating somebody and causing a death by accident or by negligence carries very different penalties. Being a cause of something and being guilty of it are different things.

Instagram would be shut down if we knew how many teens commit self harm as a direct result of it.

Are we arguing that it shouldn't be?

It is certainly a bad thing, but I think it is an important note given the conspiratorial tone on some of the comments in that other thread.

Great callout, thank you!

Then couple that with the stress of testifying. I have none of these issues but testifying like this would be hugely stressful.

I would have to suspect he felt trapped and this was the only way out of testifying.

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