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Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by twitmwu »

marincounty wrote: post #105
methodover wrote: post #90

Fuuuuuuck. Sometimes I think I have a good handle on death, and what it means. Sometimes I think I understand it. Sometimes I think I don't fear it. Then something like this happens and, just, _fuck_. I don't know how to handle it. Someone my age, doing something very similar to me, just dies. That's it. Story's over. A few weeks ago I told my CEO that I intended to quit and pursue a dream that I've been wanting to p…

I felt like you do now when I was your age. I had a nervous breakdown, in part because of my extreme fear of death. After the breakdown, I knew my life was over. Meaning the life I envisioned for myself was over. I just wasn't the same person. I felt like an alien. Well, as the years went by, I managed to survive. Dying young is an anomaly. It's rare. Do what you want in your life, but you will probally make it to ol…

I've spent the past few weeks going through the nervous breakdown you describe in your first paragraph.

A few years worth of stress (life/startup/etc.) managed to explode in a single night thanks to a rather traumatic experience with alcohol and hallucinogenic drugs, and in the weeks that have followed I've come to realize my anxieties come from this extreme fear of death/impermanence.

I'm still taking things day by day, and the panic attacks are passing more easily every day. I just wanted to say thank you for sharing your experience. Reading little things like this from other people has helped me more than I can express :)

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by noir_lord »

tmountain wrote: post #100

I worked with Josh for over five years at Grooveshark. The day I applied for the job, he spent several hours pitching the company to me with rampant enthusiasm in hopes that I'd take a risk (and a huge pay cut) and come work with the team. From the day I took the job, I watched Josh tirelessly run through his pitch time and time again, always with the same attention to detail, and the same level of genuine interest i…

I'm sorry for the loss of your friend.

Grooveshark was my absolute favourite website for close to a half a decade, I can't even count the hours I spent listening to it.

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by robflynn »

dpark wrote: post #27
logicrime wrote: post #11

I know the knee-jerk reaction is to assume foul play, but I knew him a little bit and he was as healthy as an ox. Or at least he was several months ago the last time I saw him. I don't know, but it would shock me to the bone if someone could truly get angry enough at a man like him, to try and hurt him. He knew like we all knew, Grooveshark was never going to last, but it reinforced the point that Napster proved and…

An unknown congenital heart defect seems more likely than someone killing him and leaving no visible signs. People with congenital defects can appear completely healthy right up until they die.

Yup. I know this all too well. When I was younger, my best friend was a soccer player and in great shape. He woke up one morning, went to take a shower before school, and just dropped dead in the shower. There was nothing anyone could do.

Undiagnosed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by ak39 »

twitmwu wrote: post #111
marincounty wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I felt like you do now when I was your age. I had a nervous breakdown, in part because of my extreme fear of death. After the breakdown, I knew my life was over. Meaning the life I envisioned for myself was over. I just wasn't the same person. I felt like an alien. Well, as the years went by, I managed to survive. Dying young is an anomaly. It's rare. Do what you want in your life, but you will probally make it to ol…

I've spent the past few weeks going through the nervous breakdown you describe in your first paragraph. A few years worth of stress (life/startup/etc.) managed to explode in a single night thanks to a rather traumatic experience with alcohol and hallucinogenic drugs, and in the weeks that have followed I've come to realize my anxieties come from this extreme fear of death/impermanence. I'm still taking things day by…

Take it easy fellow "extension of this universe"! We are all in this together.

Like Alan Watts said "You are something that the whole universe is doing .... in the same way that a wave is something the whole ocean is doing".

I can't remember anything before I was born. That wasn't painful at all. Why should I assume that it will be different after I'm dead?

I'm sure even Marcus Aurelius got tired of talking about death at some point and simply went out to get a beer or hug a warm body. Let's go do that. :-)

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by hkmurakami »

noir_lord wrote: post #112
tmountain wrote: post #100

I worked with Josh for over five years at Grooveshark. The day I applied for the job, he spent several hours pitching the company to me with rampant enthusiasm in hopes that I'd take a risk (and a huge pay cut) and come work with the team. From the day I took the job, I watched Josh tirelessly run through his pitch time and time again, always with the same attention to detail, and the same level of genuine interest i…

I'm sorry for the loss of your friend. Grooveshark was my absolute favourite website for close to a half a decade, I can't even count the hours I spent listening to it.

I echo your sentiments. I felt that it was the music service that put its users' experience before all other concerns (which surely lead to its legal issues). When there was a song I wanted to listen to, I came back to it time and time again, rebuffing Spotify and its ilk.

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by braythwayt »

simoncion wrote: post #97
peterwwillis wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seconded; speculating about a person's demise before they're even in the ground is in stupendously bad taste. Family and friends (and others) don't want to read that crap. Give it a rest, people.

I would have no problem with public speculation about the manner of or motives behind the death of any of my friends or family. Most speculation is a bunch of hot air, but such threads also provide a place to talk about the deceased and his works, and to talk about other, related things. I, for one, appreciate the vast majority of conversation attached to this HN post.

On several scuba and climbing sites I visit, there is a strict separation between mourning a death and speculating/analyzing the cause.

It may be a little different here, but the experience with risky sports is that a thread examining the cause may include suggestions that the person was somewhat at fault.

Many of the people mourning someones passing would prefer such discussions not be interleaved with celebrating their accomplishments or friends grieving the loss.

I certainly think both conversations should happen. But humans being human, it isn't always the best thing for them to happen in the same place at the same time.

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by mbillie1 »

simoncion wrote: post #97
peterwwillis wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seconded; speculating about a person's demise before they're even in the ground is in stupendously bad taste. Family and friends (and others) don't want to read that crap. Give it a rest, people.

I would have no problem with public speculation about the manner of or motives behind the death of any of my friends or family. Most speculation is a bunch of hot air, but such threads also provide a place to talk about the deceased and his works, and to talk about other, related things. I, for one, appreciate the vast majority of conversation attached to this HN post.

> I would have no problem with public speculation about the manner of or motives behind the death of any of my friends or family.

Perhaps not, but speculating on cause of death is nonetheless considered in extremely poor taste. Most people _would_ have a problem with it.

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