Thats a nice way to think about it. Perhaps we have more control these days and less choice.

He was also lucky enough to have a supportive family. After repeated trials of forced treatment all agreed that it was not tenable indefinitely.

At the time he passed there was an assumption he'd been killed. He would call people who he felt persecuted him, simply walking by him was enough, the N-word. Many buttock clenching a moment caught on his livestreams.

In the end it was likely an accident with him living around train tracks.