If you ask O’Hanlon why he did it, he’ll say he does not know. If you ask him what advice he’d offer in terms of prevention, his answers vary. And I asked him every time I ever spoke to him. Here is a compilation of what he said over the course of our interviews: “Don’t take on too much. Don’t be prideful. Don’t be greedy for promotion, for financial gain. Don’t work so hard. Lower your expectations. Don’t be too ambitious. September 11th. We need to address how we treat mental illness in this country. We need to look at the medication they’re taking. Survivor’s guilt. I should have read the
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