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Beyond about 150 people (and sometimes well below that number) reputation ceases to be an even loose correlate of character and becomes, instead, a platform through which the influential extort the rest in order to stay on top.

1. They want to set an example to others.

2. The stigma of suicide and association with mental ill health is taken by a lot of people to be discrediting even after the fact. The depositions are still damaging to Boeing but less so if he were alive. The “fact” that someone shot himself is a signal diminisher.