alt Hacker News> Daniel Naroditsky was harrassed so much, that he eventually went into depression and committed suicide.
Not according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Naroditsky ? (Still a tragedy, though; any death is.)
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ajkjk • yesterday at 8:47 PM
If you want to be detailed about it, https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1qjafcd/medical_exam... talks about the whole report; that sarcoidosis was the actual cause is speculative, and the "substance use as a contributing factor" part is widely believed to be in part due to the extreme stress he was under... but it is hard to say anything about causality definitively.
You are correct, there is no strong indication of active suicide.
However, it certainly put him into a state of mind of neglect, not caring anymore and not taking care of himself and most importantly, no way out. The words "I cannot play chess anymore without doubt of being accused of cheating, no matter what I do" are haunting to me. At that point he had multiple cameras targeting all screens he had and everything he could see, and it wasn't enough to Kramnik.
At such a point, it feels like arguing semantics.