I realize the topic of a primitive dying is a rather sensitive subject here, especially if, like the late red round one, a primitive doesn't exactly go out in a blaze of glory. To some, it might seem as if we're dancing on a primitive's grave, and so it doesn't look good for this side. I beg to differ.
I'm speaking as a member here, not as a moderator, because I dunno what the official position of conservativecave is, on the issue.
Redstone has gone to God; no human agency can possibly hurt him.
Redstone's family and friends are still around, and undoubtedly in a world of hurt--but that hurt, if there, was caused by Redstone, not by anyone else, least of all ephemeral beings on the internet.
The only people who could possibly be "hurt" by a discussion of Redstone's death are the primitives on Skins's island, such "wounded feelings" being nothing more than hypocritical feigned indignation.
And so it seems eminently fair to discuss a primitive's death in a clinical, detached manner.
As mentioned before, from the minute the CalPig announced the death of Redstone, I immediately suspected suicide, either accidental or planned.....leaning more towards the former than the latter.
Redstone was not a phenomenon new to me; I've seen his sort before, and their ends.
Redstone, usually a hyperenergetic person, was getting vexed and frustrated at the encroaching limitations on his physical movements and functions. It's not easy, not even for a primitive, to adjust to ever-diminishing abilities to be active.
Redstone, who had some sort of degenerative neuro-muscular ailment, was on several different pharmaceutical drugs, and being human, Redstone probably miscalculated his doses now-and-then.
Redstone was self-admittedly a hardcore alcoholic.
I can easily see where Redstone either took too many drugs, or took drugs and then sucked on the bottle, thus passing out of this world into the Eternal one. I can "sort of" see where Redstone might have deliberately done this, but I suspect "accidental" is more reasonable than "on purpose."
I've seen it before, and in fact suspect it happens more than most really realize, this screwing up on medications or mixing medications with alcohol, coming to a bad end.
None of this "judgement" is a reflection on the good and bad qualities of Redstone; simply a detached clinical speculation of what happened.
