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I'm not surprised you're getting some heat for this, but I think what you've written is pretty well balanced. Yes, suicide is often an act of rage; Yes, clinical depression is a catastrophically self-reinforcing illness.
But what a person does under the influence of depression is not disconnected from who they are before it strikes, so it's good to plant a seed of resistance in people's minds when they're sane enough to hear it.
The End of Ragequitting
When Joel Spolsky, my business partner on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, asked me what I wanted to do after I left Stack Exchange, I distinctly remember mentioning Aaron Swartz. That's what Aaron was to us hackers: an exemplar of the noble, selfless behavior and positive action that all hac...
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