Does Making Aaron Swartz A Martyr Endanger Other Suicidal People?

I've thought long and hard about this post, and have sat on it for a long time. But reading New York Magazine's feature on internet activist Aaron Swartz, and efforts, in its words, to turn him into a martyr, has made me finally decide to publish it. I think that the tech culture's tendency to turn make his death into an almost heroic act may be harmful for other people at risk of suicide.

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