Anonymous wrote:Suicide or OD 90% of the time. If it was a natural 'suddenly' (ie stroke or heart attack) it's usually spelled out to avoid the implications of the aforementioned causes.

Only if the person died more than 20 years ago. Now, it no longer means that. Died unexpectedly now can often mean some health issue developed rapidly and the details are strange or hard to list. For example, I knew one person who went swimming in unsafe waters, had a scratch become infected and died from some massive infection that spread quickly through his system and the doctors could not treat fast enough to stop the infection. He was listed as having died this way. I've seen people who have had rapid cases of late stage cancer that had that listing because the family wanted their privacy. And in the Covid era, I know a number of people who did not want to reveal that family members died of Covid.

So, no, it is now significantly less often that that phrase means what it traditionally meant because more and more people are trying to preserve their privacy in this day and age of the 2 second news cycle and mass information distribution.

Some people are super private. I could see an obit simply stating “died unexpectedly” to keep the focus on remembering the person and their life - not what caused their death. Perhaps the cause of death was not known at the time the obit was published. Whoever cited the 90% stat is probably not an authority on this topic.

Died unexpectedly could mean all of the causes previously mentioned or it could mean a freak accident, like a tree fell on him, or it could mean that the cause of death is unknown because the autopsy results haven’t come back. It’s unkind to speculate about an unseemly cause.

Don’t be gross. Don’t be a Tragedy Vulture.

I know of two separate cases where it was undiagnosed late stage cancer. Terminal, obviously.

This is OP. OK this is the last I'm going to post as I'm getting a lot of hate here. I actually admired this person professionally quite a bit and thought very highly of him. Hence why I was shocked at the facts. I'm fairly good at reading people and do remember detecting something off with him and it reminded me of someone else who did commit suicide. Anywho, let the hate continue.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I guess seeing someone retire early from a very lucrative position at such an early age makes me wonder if "retired" = "fired" because of a some mental or addiction problem, followed by suicide or OD soon thereafter.

You have an interesting bias in life. I would assume that the person was diagnosed with something terminal and decided to make his remaining time as meaningful as possible while he could, but the disease progressed much faster than expected.

This is OP. I guess I remember this person as somewhat insecure and competitive and reminds me of a similar person I knew who did actually die of suicide and had a very similar personality.

Irritating people get sick too OP.

If you are this interested, ask around at his job or at the funeral.

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I guess seeing someone retire early from a very lucrative position at such an early age makes me wonder if "retired" = "fired" because of a some mental or addiction problem, followed by suicide or OD soon thereafter.

Just make up crap as you go along. Perhaps he retired to be with "another woman" and then was shot by a jealous boyfriend "unexpectedly". See how easy that is to write fiction.

No one here knows. Go to the funeral if you’re this desperate for answers.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I guess seeing someone retire early from a very lucrative position at such an early age makes me wonder if "retired" = "fired" because of a some mental or addiction problem, followed by suicide or OD soon thereafter.

You have an interesting bias in life. I would assume that the person was diagnosed with something terminal and decided to make his remaining time as meaningful as possible while he could, but the disease progressed much faster than expected.

This is OP. I guess I remember this person as somewhat insecure and competitive and reminds me of a similar person I knew who did actually die of suicide and had a very similar personality.

It's reasonable that suicide makes you nervous and you want to distance yourself from it to the point of imagining that it has an associated personality type.

It would be healthier to own up to your discomfort than to run around casting aspersions on dead people.

Anonymous wrote:A person I used to work with years ago died at 51. The obituary simply says that he "died unexpectedly". Nothing else is added. I also know he "retired" early less than two months before his death. The obituary does not mention any natural causes or anything else. What does it possibly mean?

Could mean suicide.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I guess seeing someone retire early from a very lucrative position at such an early age makes me wonder if "retired" = "fired" because of a some mental or addiction problem, followed by suicide or OD soon thereafter.

You have an interesting bias in life. I would assume that the person was diagnosed with something terminal and decided to make his remaining time as meaningful as possible while he could, but the disease progressed much faster than expected.

This is OP. I guess I remember this person as somewhat insecure and competitive and reminds me of a similar person I knew who did actually die of suicide and had a very similar personality.

You are rubbing me the wrong way.

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I guess seeing someone retire early from a very lucrative position at such an early age makes me wonder if "retired" = "fired" because of a some mental or addiction problem, followed by suicide or OD soon thereafter.

I would not leap to that at all. It sounds like you need to believe he brought it on himself.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I guess seeing someone retire early from a very lucrative position at such an early age makes me wonder if "retired" = "fired" because of a some mental or addiction problem, followed by suicide or OD soon thereafter.

You have an interesting bias in life. I would assume that the person was diagnosed with something terminal and decided to make his remaining time as meaningful as possible while he could, but the disease progressed much faster than expected.

This is OP. I guess I remember this person as somewhat insecure and competitive and reminds me of a similar person I knew who did actually die of suicide and had a very similar personality.

You are absolutely disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I guess seeing someone retire early from a very lucrative position at such an early age makes me wonder if "retired" = "fired" because of a some mental or addiction problem, followed by suicide or OD soon thereafter.

You have an interesting bias in life. I would assume that the person was diagnosed with something terminal and decided to make his remaining time as meaningful as possible while he could, but the disease progressed much faster than expected.

This is OP. I guess I remember this person as somewhat insecure and competitive and reminds me of a similar person I knew who did actually die of suicide and had a very similar personality.