Strange ; How Peter W Smith died

[UCmeNdc]

The bizarre story of Peter W. Smith, the Republican donor who attempted to extract Hillary Clinton’s missing emails from Russian hackers profiled in the Wall Street Journal last month, just got even stranger.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Smith committed suicide in the days after speaking with the Journal about his quest for Clinton’s emails.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/gop-operative-who-tried-to-get-hillarys-emails-from-russian-hackers-committed-suicide-after-talking-to-wsj/

[Pachamama]

1. Whoa! That is clearly not dying of natural causes due to old age....

Has Rachel Maddox or anyone talked about this yet? I am in Europe right now and have not seen the broadcast from last night July 13th.

But this is incredible. I think it would be even more interesting to find out more about what the documents were that he had there with him.

I sure hope Mueller's investigation has access to these....

[sarah FAILIN]

2. Doubt he had any docs

Besides a suicide note. Very convenient...

Sounds like a strange way to commit suicide... a bag attached to a helium source? Very strange.

[Hoyt]

5. Apparently, it is considered a way to commit "peaceful" suicide. The helium keeps the tortured soul

from feeling/reacting like they are suffocating. I looked it up and was surprised. But who knows what is real nowadays.

[politicat]

10. No, it's not.

It's been the recommended method from the rational suicide movement for at least two decades. When people don't have the option of physician-assisted via medication, know that their continuing life is likely to be painful and undignified, don't want to leave a horrible mess for someone else to clean up, and don't want the risk of surviving an overdose, helium is the best option. Our brains don't have suffocation sensors for helium gas (we do for carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen gas) so it's definitely not a cry for help attempt method. Helium hoods will kill you dead, quickly and painlessly. Once in a while, a teenager or two will decide they want to have a couple hours of squeaky voice, buy a party tank and crawl into a tent with it. It's their last mistake.

National Suicide Prevention Hotline: [phone]
For Deaf/Hard of hearing: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/help-yourself/for-deaf-hard-of-hearing/ (Chat line and TTY number)

Mr. Smith, for all of his conservative attitude, seems to have been a meticulous and organized person. I may disagree with his politics, but what data there is sounds like someone at end of life, wanting to be finished, clearing his conscience and organizing his affairs. (Which does not entirely eliminate the idea that a hit could have replicated it, but despite spending the last nine months in the low probability version of our universe, I'm still gonna call horses when I hear hoofbeats. And the Russians do elaborate and baroque hits, but this isn't their style. It's not baroque enough, not obscure enough, and too practical.)

[Hekate]

11. Thank you for this, politicat

[tblue37]

8. And now that investigative reporter who did a story on the Russian thing died falling down stairs

because the handrail gave way. How easy it would be to tamper with a handrail to loosen it and make a fall look like an accident.

Yeah, I know--that is CT; but the fact of so many "coincidental" deaths around this case has me jumping at shadows.

[OnDoutside]

16. Yes Rachel, talked about it AND had a comment from the reporter who interviewed for the May article.

He said he had no indication that Smith was in ill health or in a disturbed mental state (from having received bad medical news).

This is definitely one to investigate further.

[Sneederbunk]

3. What is the Russian word for suicide?

[Hekate]

12. "Putin must go"

[Gabi Hayes]

4. OReilly was there, just like he was for

George de Mohrenschieldt (sp)

[BigmanPigman]

6. He died from breathing in helium. It was posted on DU at 4:00 today.

There was a complete article from the Chicago Tribune (http://www.chicagotribune.com/). I don't know how to link stuff...sorry.
It is a common method and is detailed in The Final Exit book which I have read. It seems legit to me. He bought two helium tanks to make sure it didn't fail.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

7. What is downright creepy is that......

I live in Rochester, Minnesota. The major hotel near the Mayo Clinic is the Khaler Grand, used mostly by Mayo Clinic visitors that Peter Smith died in. That is 3 miles from my house.

[OnDoutside]

17. They will need to chase down the Mayo Clinic to verify this diagnosis.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

20. The Mayo Clinic is HUGE!!!!!!!!

I have been a patient of Opthalmology since Christmas of 1982. The entire complex is the 2nd largest in the country next to Johns Hopkins with 2 satellites in Arizona and Florida.

[regnaD kciN]

9. Why is this so surprising...?

Such suicides happen all the time in Russia.

[whistler162]

13. Let us not Vince Foster him....

[arthritisR_US]

14. Thanks, now you started it. The RW lie in waiting as always l

Now I need to vomit because Hannity willl inject this into his icy veins

[WinkyDink]

15. Has Hillary been blamed yet?

[OnDoutside]

18. What's the nearest Pizzeria to his hotel room ?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

21. Pasquale's New York style Pizzatia

Down less than a mile on 1st Avenue Southwest from the Clinic.

[Achilleaze]

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