Death of HHS official Daniel Best is ruled a suicide

[DrDoug]

If I believed in object possession and reincarnation I'd think that in a past life the OP was a really bad projector that someone grew frustrated with, threw out of the window in their upper floor apartment and on the way down it bounces off a balcony, slams into and bounces off a second balcony and then slams in to a lower roof before rolling off and hitting the concrete another 20 feet below.

Why do you want this man's death to have been a murder for wanting to lower drug prices? If this indeed was such a murder, are you expecting everyone who is appointed to do this job to also be murdered or was this guy killed to warn everyone who follows in his footsteps? If indeed this was a suicide, are you comfortable joining a crowd of thoughtless assholes who want to use this death for their own morbid reasons, causing further distress to that family and his loved ones?

Because that's what you are going to be if you choose to pursue this line of thought. A thoughtless asshole.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Will there be evidence supporting the claim that this was not suicide? I may have missed it in the thread.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Why do you want this man's death to have been a murder for wanting to lower drug prices?

I don’t, but the circumstances are highly suspect.

 

[trenchfoot]

So...it was Hillary that did it !

Forced him at gunpoint to the top of the building and had Bill give him the 'ol Capt. Orange Pants walk the plank ceremony? Well when I put on my stealthily absconded GOP approved tin foil wizard's hat and compelled myself to think like a True Trumper, that's exactly what I came up with so it must be true.

 

[Jhhnn]

I don’t, but the circumstances are highly suspect.

That's bullshit speculation of conspiracy theory. Investigators found no signs of foul play & the trauma was obviously entirely consistent with Best having fallen from the building. That probably wasn't easy, making it suicide.

But, hey, there's already a bullshit Youtube vid sponsored by anti-aging woo you'll probably enjoy, and it's right at the top of Google results for Daniel Best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18bWegzBW7g

 

[brycejones]

And the op wonders why no one takes him seriously here.

 

[Vic]

Gawd PC Principal comes to tell me how it is. Hint, joking about offensive things doesn’t imply someone actually believes those things. Hint, when someone makes a joke about dead babies they don’t actually want to kill babies. Hint, turn down your wokeness.

The point that Amused was making -- which you missed -- is that the disparagement of morality can only come from immoral motives.

 

[Vic]

I've never once looked at a conspiracy theory that mentioned Jews. The only one that I might think the Jews were involved in is the flat earth movement, and the reason is that it's brilliant.

Do you live a bubble?

 

[Amused]

I've never once looked at a conspiracy theory that mentioned Jews. The only one that I might think the Jews were involved in is the flat earth movement, and the reason is that it's brilliant.

Then you haven't really looked.

 

[Amused]

Gawd PC Principal comes to tell me how it is. Hint, joking about offensive things doesn’t imply someone actually believes those things. Hint, when someone makes a joke about dead babies they don’t actually want to kill babies. Hint, turn down your wokeness.

Tell me, would you think it was funny if someone on here made jokes about fucking little children? Or would you tell them to stop?

Morality is socially enforced. Now, I get the joke was actually a stab at the bigotry of the right-wing and not a real claim. Do you?

However, were it serious and someone meant it, I would shut them the fuck down.

So keep your racist/bigot blame shifting jargon and attempts to deflect being called out for an asshole when you're an asshole. You won't deter me, or millions of others from standing up against racism and bigotry no matter how you try to label us. We will call out every last one of your white victim hood and "reverse racism" posts for what they are: racism.

We see right through people like you. You know full well that being openly racist is no longer tolerated anywhere. So now the narrative is "white victim hood," "reverse racism," spreading cherry picked "facts" to demonize a minority, and pointing out every crime or bad act committed by a minority.

Because social norms have prevented you from being overtly racist, you now resort to dog whistles, demonizing and crying oppression. And when called out on it, you attempt to defame that person with labels like "SJW," "PC" and "virtue signalling."

What you are too dim witted to realize is, using those terms just shows everyone what you really are.

 

[WelshBloke]

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/these-people-are-whats-really-wrong-with-america-today.2556989/

Well this seems relevant to the OP!

 

[darkswordsman17]

With each and every thread you make OP you prove more and more what a complete dumbshit you are about every, single, topic.

 

[DrDoug]

I don’t, but the circumstances are highly suspect.

Until law enforcement says otherwise, there's nothing to suspect except for those looking for something to suspect. Come on, if this was a hit is the next person appointed to this position going to get hit too or was this enough to stop drug prices from getting cut? Go ahead and run with your story a bit, flesh out the conspiracy theory for us.

Please, entertain me with your thoughts.

 

[bradly1101]

For whomever thinks that things aren't fixed and sometimes deeply corrupt, I've got a govt. to sell you, oh wait, I gotta pay you?

 

[bradly1101]

I just had to re-auth. PayPal cuz new phone, OMG! Background questions to include one dead by medicine partner and another of three who is dead to me cuz harm. WTF Pay'Pal'? And I have to call back and try again after 24hrs.? Bye PayPal!!

 

[rommelrommel]

I just had to re-auth. PayPal cuz new phone, OMG! Background questions to include one dead by medicine partner and another of three who is dead to me cuz harm. WTF Pay'Pal'? And I have to call back and try again after 24hrs.? Bye PayPal!!

Thanks for the update, you don’t sound like an unhinged lunatic at all.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Thread still based on concern feels?

 

[umbrella39]

Thread still based on concern feels?

Crazy that some still think they are having an actual debate then they reply to his poorly / brilliantly (depending on one's perspective) executed troll threads...

 

[hal2kilo]

He used to work for CVS. The only level of hell deeper is Rite Aid. Yeah I can see it.

lol. I know it's not funny, but I still laughed.

 

[DanDee]

He jumped from a goddamn building. What the hell do you think the result of that is? Stubbing his toe?

Who the hell (besides you) said he jumped from a building?

 

[Victorian Gray]

Who the hell (besides you) said he jumped from a building? If he "jumped from a building" how did he get INSIDE the garage to be found?

He was found outside the garage.

 

[DanDee]

Death of HHS official Daniel Best is ruled a suicide
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Nov. 1 death of Daniel Best, a pharmaceutical executive from Bay Village who led U.S. Department of Health and Human Services efforts to lower prescription drug prices, has been ruled a suicide, officials in Washington, D.C., said Thursday.
Police say Best was found “unresponsive” near the garage door exit of an apartment building in Washington, D.C.’s Navy Yard neighborhood at 5:25 a.m. on Nov. 1, and was pronounced dead by medical personnel who responded to the scene.
The city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on Thursday said Best died from “multiple blunt force injuries” and it ruled his death a suicide. It would not release further information.
In announcing his death, HHS Secretary Alex Azar said the 49-year-old former CVSHealth and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals executive agreed to work at HHS “out of a desire to serve the American people by making health care more affordable.”
“He brought his deep expertise and passion to this task with great humility and collegiality,” Azar’s statement said. “All of us who served with Dan at HHS and in the administration mourn his passing and extend our thoughts and prayers to his wife Lisa and the entire Best family at this difficult time.”
Best is survived by his wife, Lisa, and three children.

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I'm looking for "jumped from a building".

 

[DanDee]

He was found outside the garage.

I edited that out because I didn't think anyone had responded to it yet. I assumed he was INSIDE the garage. You're assuming he was OUTSIDE the garage. The article says "near the garage door exit". Unless you have additional information you don't know either.

 

[DanDee]

That's bullshit speculation of conspiracy theory. Investigators found no signs of foul play & the trauma was obviously entirely consistent with Best having fallen from the building.

What are you basing this on? Nothing I've read said he fell from a building? Why are people making that assumption?

 

[Victorian Gray]

What are you basing this on? Nothing I've read said he fell from a building? Why are people making that assumption?

Dude, you're the one who seems to be promoting a conspiracy so, yeah, "assumptions".