No. Of course not. And neither was this guy, so far as the article indicated. Nor was he bumped off by some secret assassination.
There is the possibility that the stress of anticipation, the demands of courage, and the apprehension of an uncertain future got the better of him. My own belief, after much cogitation and experience, is that a perception that nothing can change is the temporal counterpart of solitary confinement in the spatial world. It is the nullification of free will. A changeless eternity can be terrifying, to the point where someone might rather end it than endure it.
Was your coworker testifying to Congress about illegal activities concerning one of the largest data collection devices in the world?
No. Of course not. And neither was this guy, so far as the article indicated. Nor was he bumped off by some secret assassination.
There is the possibility that the stress of anticipation, the demands of courage, and the apprehension of an uncertain future got the better of him. My own belief, after much cogitation and experience, is that a perception that nothing can change is the temporal counterpart of solitary confinement in the spatial world. It is the nullification of free will. A changeless eternity can be terrifying, to the point where someone might rather end it than endure it.