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jb1991

What exactly is meant by this comment.

Two Boeing whistleblowers "committed suicide" within a few weeks of each other.

Contracting MRSA is considered suicide now?

I wasn't aware one died of a staph infection. The other officially died from suicide.

I'd recommend doing cursory research before confidently claiming something as fact on the world wide web.

I learned about the dangers of spreading rumors from Veggie Tales when I was five. We all make mistakes, but there's really no excuse for peddling secondhand information when established facts are an internet search away at all times.

> wasn't aware one died of a staph infection

You could…correct your comment.

Which had many oddities surrounding it

Didn't one of them also specifically tell a family member that if he dies it was Boeing?

Not quite that, but something like it. It still does not proof it, though.

A self-described “family friend” said that the Boeing whistleblower (1 of 60?) said that. Also, as anyone who works with mental patients can attest to, “if I die, I didn’t commit suicide” is not anywhere close to as ironclad as it sounds on the surface… (I.e. 99% of those claims were false)

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