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Colin Kroll, Founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, Died of Accidental Drug Overdose (nbcnewyork.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC New York: Colin Kroll, the co-founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, died of an accidental overdose, the city's medical examiner announced Tuesday. According to the autopsy results, Kroll died of "acute intoxication due to the combined effects of fentanyl, fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine." Kroll, 34, was found dead in his SoHo, Manhattan, apartment on Dec. 16, 2018. Police responded to a 911 call for a welfare check at the Spring Street apartment where they found Kroll unconscious and unresponsive in a bedroom of the apartment, a New York Police Department spokesman previously told NBC News. Kroll was named the chief executive of HQ Trivia, a phone-based trivia platform, in September. Prior to that, Kroll co-founded Vine, the popular short-form video service acquired in 2012 by Twitter. Vine was discontinued four years later.
Out of all the drugs out there, stay away from heroin.
Because heroin and cocaine don't fuck you up enough?
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
But this sounds like a 'nothing of importance was lost.' situation.
The guy with the wife and the encrypted laptop and no backup of the cold wallet exchange password sounded like a bigger loss.
This is like saying that someone who got in a car and was then killed when a semi-truck had a blow out right next to him and pushed him into a ditch didn't have an accident because it was his choice to get in the car.
Unless we find a suicide note or some other indication that it was a suicide attempt it seems likely that it was an accidental overdose. Especially since fentanyl is so easy to OD on.
I read the internet for the articles.
It is more like someone who is known to love to drive his sports cars 110mph deserved to die in a car accident.
I have driven 100mph for a few moments in my life. But I sure would not make a habit of it, even if I owned an appropriate vehicle, because I do not want a minor mistake by myself or someone else to snowball into a stupid death.
Did this guy deserve to die? I would say no. But he lived a life where a minor mistake by himself or someone else could snowball into a stupid death. He rolled the dice, and it came up snake eyes.
All these people who got hooked on prescription pain killers and then moved to heroin never once asked for help beforehand. They liked it.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
They have plenty of opportunity to not get addicted to the prescription stuff in the first place. It is their own fault they lack self control, and also their own fault that they looked to fix their pain with pills rather than live with a little bit of pain.
Those who do not learn from commit history are doomed to regress it.