I hear what you're saying about wondering if the story is true. I wondered it myself.

RE: Going to social media - I have a different perspective.

Some people feel, in that moment of grief, a intense feeling of isolation.

Going to social media to, almost literally, scream it out to the world - is literally a cry for acknowledgement... to be heard... to be joined in a moment of extreme isolation.

I can definitely relate.

When the people around you, next to you - just have no clue - don't seem to care - or don't take it as serious as you. And you're desperate to be heard - You explode it into any space that has a chance of hearing you.

So from that angle - I can believe this is real.

But no idea if it's actually real...