All unexplained deaths should be investigated.
As for accomplishments, Ernest Hemingway had a Pulitzer Prize, and was a Nobel Laureate. He killed himself with a shotgun blast to his head. Robin Williams had two Emmy Awards, a Grammy, and an Oscar for best supporting actor. He hung himself.
The judge was accomplished beyond question, but that does not make her immuned to suicide.
Of course it doesn't make her immune, however it isn't cut and dried like the other cases mentioned are. Those closest to her report that it wasn't a suicide. There seem to be inconsistencies in some of the things that were reported in the news. The COD hasn't been determined. Altho the NYPD has closed its investigation, it has handed over all of its evidence to the ME:
"A day after the New York City Police Department said it completed its investigation into the death of Court of Appeals Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam, a representative of the city's medical examiner said the office had not yet determined an official cause.... NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said Wednesday that the departmentwhich initially investigated Abdus-Salaam's death as a suicidehas turned all of its evidence over to the medical examiner, according to media reports." (
http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/ho...Not-Its-Result?mcode=1202617075062&curindex=0)
In Williams' case, it seems he had numerous issues that were known: "Frequently misdiagnosed, DLB is the second most common neurodegenerative dementia after Alzheimers and causes fluctuations in mental status, hallucinations and impairment of motor function.
Susan told People that the disease started to take hold of the actor in the last year before his death, with the symptoms worsening in the months before he took his own life.
In her first television interview, she told how the Oscar-winning actor was just disintegrating physically and mentally in the months before his death.
Williams, 63, had been diagnosed with Parkinsons disease three months before he died and had been showing symptoms including stiffness, slumping gait and confusion, she told ABCs Good Morning America." (
https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...ms-disintegrating-before-suicide-widow-says);
in Hemingway's case, it seems he was living in pain for a number of years: "Shortly after the publication of
The Old Man and the Sea (1952), Hemingway went on
safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two successive plane crashes that left him in pain or ill health for much of his remaining life. Hemingway maintained permanent residences in
Key West, Florida, (1930s) and
Cuba (1940s and 1950s), and in 1959, he bought a house in
Ketchum, Idaho, where he killed himself in mid-1961." (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway).
It will probably be a couple of months before tox results come back(?) Perhaps they might know more at that time? I'm feeling suspicious. With all of the political stuff going on surrounding 'Muslims' currently, and the judge holding such a prestigious position in the country's highest court, among other, more personal reasons, I'm not ready to jump on the suicide determination yet. Just my personal feelings though, and everyone is welcome to disagree or agree.
