Respectfully, why is it gross? Why is it gross to question suicides in the case of political dissidents? I think it's necessary. Even if wrong, or baseless, it's a task that needs to be done and I would be afraid to live in a state where it is unacceptable to question such.
Because there's no substantive basis for it, it's merely using someone's death for a cheap hit of excitement. There's nothing politically serious about that—it's just adolescent, and frankly a litmus test of low-quality commenters.
Because of that and the other slop that has been posted here, I haven't been this ashamed of an HN thread in quite a while. It pains me that HN would be an example of how low the internet sinks when someone dies.
After MLK's death, conspiracy theorists were disparaged. Turns out, there were, in fact, multiple government conspiracies, going so far as trying to get him killed.
