I'm hesitating about whether I agree or disagree with you. I also do not like distasteful / disrespectful comments; and I can understand that people prefer privacy. However, this was simple factual information. I'm not sure keeping facts secret is a good thing even if done out of respect.
It is important that the public sees how many lives are destroyed by domestic abuse, suicides, addiction, and other social ills. And I fear that not talking about those details out of respect / privacy may do more harm than good.
It isn’t factual, it’s an allegation. He doesn’t have any proof other than a burner account created today.
If it is factual, I agree, have the discussion about addiction. But is it too much to ask to either have the conversation openly (and not in an anonymous comment full of judgment and borderline glee that a person is dead), and not in gossip-laden comments hours after the guy is dead? It’s gross and people defending unnamed gossip from a green rando is infuriating.
It is important that the public sees how many lives are destroyed by domestic abuse, suicides, addiction, and other social ills. And I fear that not talking about those details out of respect / privacy may do more harm than good.