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by slillibri 1063 days ago
Sure, but I’m certain that random internet speculation helps no one at this point.
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It's not really random though.

She's announced she was going to do it before and to be fair she's always had more than her fair share of mental troubles, sadly. As someone who is also cursed with those I know how hard that can be and I didn't even lose a child.

Withholding the cause is what leads to speculation and I don't think it's a bad guess in this case.

Personally I think it's better if they just announced it because believe it or not something like this can also lead to good things. Because it can make people think, realise these things happen and notice the signs in people around them.

And say what you want about her, but nobody ever said she was one for wavering. In everything she did she committed to and knew all about owning consequences.

If she was suicidal, and she had the track record, she was well able to have follow through on this also.

Whatever you believe, just for her sake, I genuinely hope she's now reunited with her son to get some peace.

There would have been no speculation if the family had stated an uncontroversial cause of death. Instead they "requested privacy", which means it was likely something people would have judged her for.
That just means suicide and the press usually doesn’t publish it to not encourage copycats.