The crazy SOB actually died
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He was 75 years old, and in prison, and possibly broke and also a drug abuser.
If only I could get rid of McAfee from my computer this easily.
Oh for fuck's sake
www.businessinsider.com
The circus does not need more irresponsible feeding
John McAfee's Instagram account was deleted after it posted the letter Q following his suicide in jail
A graphic that simply said "Q" was posted on McAfee's account after reports of his death in a Spanish jail on Wednesday.
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The circus does not need more irresponsible feeding
Not just that, but his behaviour could be described as paranoid, and certainly suggests a particular hostility to and even fear of the US government that was arguably pathological. A jail in Spain might not be the end of the world, but a man with particular nightmares about what the US government might do to him could find extradition intolerable.
Oh, but it gets better:Oh for fuck's sake
John McAfee's Instagram account was deleted after it posted the letter Q following his suicide in jail
A graphic that simply said "Q" was posted on McAfee's account after reports of his death in a Spanish jail on Wednesday.
The circus does not need more irresponsible feeding
I think american prison system's terrible rep is so widely known, even some relatively normal people would consider suicide upon facing a lifetime there.
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Huh. Didn't realise he had an established following. Well, in the words of a certain modern philosopher...
The American prison system is only that terrible for average Joes or ones who committed really bad crimes. Millionaire tax dodgers are morely likely to get a prison with standards akin to student halls of residence: whilst this might be a big step down on what they're used to, it's hardly serious privation.
There’s also a large number of those which are hits made to look like suicides, because prison authorities do not care about inmates and will write off any death they can as a suicide to save time and effort.
Who knows he's been on the run for years with some private mercenary group pretty much running from location to location. I think more having to abandon locations fearing a raid would be more of a thing to upset him more.
Compared to people who aren't old, detoxing, paranoid and destitute and facing extradition.
Because suicide rates are typically quite low, that doesn't really mean much with respect to how weird it is. It may be less weird than if e.g. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett both decided to commit suicide in the space of a few years but that's pretty unlikely to begin with.
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