'Unabomber' Ted Kaczynski had late-stage rectal cancer and was 'depressed' before prison suicide, autopsy says

[Jilly_in_VA]

Ted Kaczynski, the imprisoned domestic terrorist known as the “Unabomber,” was diagnosed with rectal cancer in March 2021, and a month prior to killing himself in June 2023, “was noted to be depressed and sent for psychiatric evaluation,” according to his autopsy report obtained by NBC News.

Kaczynski was 81, and a senior law enforcement official had said at the time that he had been diagnosed with cancer, although its type and severity were unclear.

Now, 10 months after Kaczynski died and NBC News first filed a Freedom of Information Act request related to his case, his autopsy report offers new details into the health and final months of a man who, for two decades, waged a deadly bombing spree that killed three people and injured 23 others. It ended with his capture in the Montana wilderness in 1996; he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina lists the cause of death as hanging, with a shoelace used as a ligature, at Kaczynski’s solitary cell at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, northeast of Durham.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-late-stage-rectal-cancer-was-depressed-prison-rcna147819

How appropriate for the asshole that he was....

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Terrible! Wouldn't want the man who blew random people up to be depressed

or to have cancer. What a shame.

[DBoon]

2. Why far-right communities love the Unabomber

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/far-right-unabomber/

This acceptance of the most basic parts of the manifesto has allowed some of his more insidious ideas to gain traction. The Unabomber Manifesto is just the kind of thing that right-wingers love. Like the books of Jordan Peterson or the writing of Ben Shapiro,the Unabomber Manifesto takes arguments with a degree of respectability and uses the, in an attempt to justify misogyny, racism, and violence to its audience.

Well-known MRA and pick-up artist Roosh Valizadeh wrote an article at Return of Kings in 2015 in which he claimed, “the ‘Unabomber’ clearly understood what society was up against, a full decade before the development of the manosphere.” Specifically, Roosh identifies with Kaczynski’s contention that technology is what makes progressivism possible. Hand in hand, Roosh and Kaczynski believe, the forces of technology and liberalism are bringing an end to individual liberty.

Roosh cites the Unabomber’s point in his manifesto that, “The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in ‘advanced’ countries.”

One particular section of the Unabomber’s manifesto that appeals most to Red Pillers is called, “The Danger of Leftism.” In this section, Kaczynski engages in many of the same rhetorical tricks that the right love to use today when attempting to inflate their ideas with legitimacy.

He is a cult hero to many on the far right. He has been praised by Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk.

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. Who are also assholes...

Or maybe I should call them something else. After all, assholes serve a useful function.

[Elessar Zappa]

4. Oh ok.

[FakeNoose]

5. A situation like that, they should allow physician-assisted suicide

It would have been quicker and more humane, don't you think?