
I told Alec that I thought he might try to kill himself. I TOLD ALEC that Aaron was a bit too calm before Christmas. I LOOKED BACK at my e-mails and I was almost always the one who didn’t continue the conversation. can alter liver functioning, which in turn can cause other medicine to cause impulsive behavior like suicide. My doctor relative told me that some of his ulcerative-colitis patients seemed to be doing much better until the moment when they suddenly committed suicide, and that there’s some speculation that U.C. However, he did commit suicide, which weighs pretty heavily on the other side of the scale. He wasn’t doing normal depressed-people things (like withdrawing from friends and family), let alone suicidal-people things (like giving away his stuff).

He definitely didn’t seem depressed right before his death, nor for a long time previously. I know during the scare in 2007 he had gotten very, very sick from his U.C. I’ve been thinking about it a lot for the last twelve hours. Apparently co-morbidity with depression is common. THERE IS SUICIDE as a philosophical question: does suicide make sense as an answer to suffering? No, he didn’t think it did.Ī DOCTOR RELATIVE last night told me that he’d had some very painful experiences with patients with ulcerative colitis committing suicide. Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Aaron Swartz’s girlfriend
