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@19thcenturynovel to Websleuths! We were all new at one point.
Everyone's perspective is meaningful, even if we don't all agree. If we all agreed then this wouldn't be sleuthing, right?
That said, since you are new to this case and have formed an opinion about whether ED was suicidal, I encourage you to carefully review our 8 months of discussion over 5 threads. There have been many of us who have dissected a slew of data points and concluded ED could have been suicidal and that she could have been suffering from a major depressive episode in October / November 2020. Of course we can never diagnosis someone and we may never know if she was, but there is a lot to consider.
If you haven't done so already, an easy way to focus on past WS discussions regarding a topic in the ED case, such as "suicide", is to search each of the 5 threads for the word suicide and then read each of the posts that come up from that search. I just ran a search for each thread (see below for an image of the utility I used).
Thank you, RedHaus. I guess I've got some homework to do and I'm sad to hear of that possiblity.
The following is a summary of ED posts that mention the word "suicide":
- Thread #1: 15
- Thread #2: 2
- Thread #3*: 46
- Thread #4: 59
- Thread #5: 44 (so far)
TOTAL: 166
Those 166 posts include a rich discussion of the facts as we know them. And I believe it represents a fairly balanced discussion with all sorts of opinions on the matter. Once you review our past discussions and perhaps review the primary data on your own (e.g. ED's and ED/DC's FB posts going back to September / October, 2020), let us know what you think. And I want to be clear, that IMO, this is just one of several possible outcomes for poor ED. I remain open to many different scenarios.
* It was in Thread #3 when we broke the ice and started openly discussing the possibility ED committed suicide... it took a leap of faith that WS would let us. So if you had to prioritize due to time constraints, I'd suggest the 46 posts in Thread #3 may be the most productive to read.
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