While none (?) of us know the cause of his death, and to many of us it would be interesting, I'd say the only people who have a/right/ to know would be his family.
Does anybody remember, about 20 years ago, the legendary (W.) Richard Stevens passed away, apparently suddenly, and the family asked that the details of his death be kept private. (His books and writing on TCP/IP and Unix programming are IMO hands-down the best-ever on the subject.) In general, that fuels speculation that it was something humiliating, shameful, or embarrassing, but all of that is speculation. What I find fascinating is that 22 years later, with all sorts of internet sleuths, still no one has published anything about RS's death. I'm generally of a belief that secrets tend to leak out eventually.
Anyway -- I met Dan twice, and he always seemed like an upbeat, smart, and warm guy. I'm sorry for his family.
OK, so bringing up speculation was unnecessary then, because there's no reason to speculate, and even if we did, just what kind of speculation do people think will spring up knowing the man's current reputation? Is their something we're NOT suppose to be drawing attention to? Like the Streisand Effect.
I think there is no effect on speculation by either mentioning or not mentioning it. People are intensely curious about the fates of others. Nearly the exact same conversation would be going on in the absence of a stated cause of death whether Marc made this statement or not. However, we also know that people are on average rude asshats, so I'm sure media and other interested parties have been hounding friends and family for any information anyone would be willing to leak, so I get his desire to publicly
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While none (?) of us know the cause of his death, and to many of us it would be interesting, I'd say the only people who have a /right/ to know would be his family.
Does anybody remember, about 20 years ago, the legendary (W.) Richard Stevens passed away, apparently suddenly, and the family asked that the details of his death be kept private. (His books and writing on TCP/IP and Unix programming are IMO hands-down the best-ever on the subject.) In general, that fuels speculation that it was something humiliating, shameful, or embarrassing, but all of that is speculation. What I find fascinating is that 22 years later, with all sorts of internet sleuths, still no one has published anything about RS's death. I'm generally of a belief that secrets tend to leak out eventually.
Anyway -- I met Dan twice, and he always seemed like an upbeat, smart, and warm guy. I'm sorry for his family.
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OK, so bringing up speculation was unnecessary then, because there's no reason to speculate, and even if we did, just what kind of speculation do people think will spring up knowing the man's current reputation? Is their something we're NOT suppose to be drawing attention to? Like the Streisand Effect.
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>While none (?) of us know the cause of his death
He died from Diabetic Ketoacidosis.