Cory Doctorow: RIP, Aaron Swartz
Last year someone else did this. <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3231531" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3231531</a><p>Two years ago someone did this. <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2074109" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2074109</a><p>In between, before all this, there have been people insisting that suicide is the cheaper option compared to living. This is very much a thing.<p>I don't purport to have a solution because I fight depression, suicidal thoughts myself and at best I can only say depression is something that you don't get rid of, only something that you learn to co-occupy your mind with.<p>But one thing I can say we here all live and work in a field that deals with great extremes. Great extremes of success and great abyss of failures. So take care to not be swallowed, by success or failure.