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by colechristensen 239 days ago
Morbid curiosity is maybe natural but I think it's bad form for a bunch of online speculation into cause of death by armchair researchers. He's a real person and his family and friends are real people and they deserve freedom from that kind of speculation running wild across the Internet. There's no benefit for anyone, it's just curiosity that shouldn't be engaged in.
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I would prefer you refer to it as "courtesy" or "consideration" rather than "freedom".
its not mórbid wanting to know if a Young person commited suicide
morbid curiosity literally curiosity about disease and death

I'm not sure what you think "morbid" means.

"Morbid" indicates that the curiosity about disease and death is unhealthy.

Describing a university course on infectious disease as "morbid" would be incorrect.