It's worth clarifying, because you absolutely can sign away rights in a contract. You can even sign away constitutionally protected rights, like free speech. This regularly happens vis-a-vis NDA's.

I bring this up because I am (morbidly) interested in the technicalities. Like, could it just be an unenforceable provision to an otherwise valid contract?

I would probably sign if all of the following are true:

- The money is significantly better than my other options

- I believe the company not to be serious about the suicide clause

- I believe the suicide clause to be non-binding in any jurisdiction that applies to myself or the foundation

- I didn't believe the company / foundation would take my refusal to kill myself at a later time as a license to have me killed

The last one is a bit out there, but in the world of crypto, you can never be too sure.

Also, regardless of whether I would sign, I think it's in pretty poor taste and a bright amber flag (but not quite a red flag) if an employer thinks this is a funny or acceptable thing to put into a contract.

It's also in very poor taste and reeks of coercion to send out a manifesto or mandate like this on a Friday and expect people to sign or agree by Monday or lose their jobs. They likely wouldn't be able to have it reviewed by a lawyer over the weekend if they chose to do so.

What "contract"? They're referencing a meme on page 11 of the document, which looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/bSYTJb1

Are people seriously believing the Ethereum Foundation is looking for its members to commit suicide in case they don't publish full source-code? :P Either I'm massively misreading what the outrage is about, or I think this is the point I stop understanding how the world works. Are people taking that image seriously???