Baughn comments on [LINK] Terry Pratchett is dead - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Baughn 12 March 2015 05:46PM

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Comment author: Baughn 13 March 2015 12:35:30AM 2 points [-]

It's a suspiciously pleasant way to go, but I see no reason to look more closely at this. Let's just be happy he got the end he wanted.

Comment author: Toggle 14 March 2015 04:24:12AM 2 points [-]

Pratchett himself stated an intention to commit suicide before his disease progressed past a certain point. "To jump before I am pushed", I believe was the phrase he used at one point.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/feb/02/terry-pratchett-assisted-suicide-tribunal

The BBC claims that he didn't take his own life, and given his advocacy I think that his family would have been honest about his suicide if it were one, but it's a reason to look more closely at least.