Edit: The admins have told me if I don’t say this was an accident then they will remove the post.
It’s is verifiably an accident. It is also extremely convenient for the people she threatened.
This seems to be misinformation. The family confirmed she died due to epilepsy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Aber#Death
Please refrain from sharing easily debunkable conspiracy theories. OP will need to add a clear disclaimer within 24h or this post will be removed.
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This user has been perma-banned for secretly linking to an IP grabber
Oh, how convenient!
You should still remove it
You are still spreading conspiracy theories
Edit: The admins have told me if I don’t say this was an accident then they will remove the post.
It’s is verifiably an accident. It is also extremely convenient for the people she threatened.
Dude, that’s a weak-ass response. Do yourself a favor and delete this.
No <3
“Debunked stupid conspiracy theory” -yeah but we live in a world where many previously unthinkable and unbelievable things have acrually happened. We live in a world where it’s 100% plausible that difficult people could be “taken care of” by the current reĝime.
It’s only ok to be wrong if you’re a Republican. If you’re a Democrat you have to be right 100% of the time. This brings you down to 99.99%, how dare you.
I apologize and resign immediately.
The CIA had a heart attack gun decades ago.
Making someone’s cause of death an epiliptic attack, either for real or on paper, would be absolutely trivial in 2025.
You’re not wrong. People with epilepsy have a really hard time getting medicated for other things, because the list of drug interactions for epilepsy meds is a mile long. Even common things like decongestants can trigger a seizure.
You mean the one that shot bullets made of ice? That wasn’t real, actually. The CIA made it up to impress/intimidate the Russians.
That appears to be about a gun that fires plastic/metal darts, not frozen venom payloads.
Yeah she investigated zios too but you don’t see liberal qanon going crazy about that.
Can we not pretend to be as dumb as the flat-earth tumpers?
Her family came out and stated she suffered from epileptic seizures, and believed that was cause of death. Theres’ literally nothing worse than the family having closure, and being continually harassed about the death of a loved one because of psychotic internet conspiracy theorists. There is no basement in this pizza parlor.
Yea it’s a known thing that people with epilepsy who live alone are at higher risk of ‘spontaneous’ death. If they have a seizure that prevents them from taking their anti-convulsant medication things can get bad fast.
Sudden death in epilepsy is one of my biggest fears. My seizures are well controlled, but there’s still a chance my brain will just blue screen anyway
It’s a fear of mine as well. My partner has epilepsy, and works from home. There’s a non-zero chance that she could seize while I’m at work, and nobody will notice until I come home 8 hours later.
She knew too much
Is there a Lemmy feature to block unfounded conspiracy theories? Shit like this will get me to stop using this site, for the same reason I wouldn’t use Facebook even if the privacy issues were solved.
I don’t want to sound like a shill, but I’ve created a Custom GPT to help recognize distortion/misinformation/propaganda.
https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/post/27608970I’m hoping to receive more feedback on it. I’d love some help refining it too. Yes, I plan on open sourcing it once I get past the “OpenAI problem”.
We like to use our brain as the filter here.
Twitter screenshots don’t count as quality journalism.
We like to use our brain as the filter here.
OP has 916 upvotes vs 57 downvotes
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We should renember that the MAGA Nazis don’t mind killing people, or even let other nations kill people.
In their first term, they allowed Saudi Arabia to brutally murder and dismember exiled Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, because they didnt want to derail their $10 billion arms deal with the Saudi goverment.
We knew theSaudis intended to do this, and they were informed that there would be no negative repercussions from the MAGA administration. So we didnt warn this dissident journalist, writing material that was 100% protected by the Constitution, living legally in America, working for an American newspaper, that his life was in danger, and let him go to his gruesome death.
They let a foreign nation murder someone under American protection. Does anyone really belive they wouldn’t allow the Russians to do it?
BTW, they also let a loyal MAGA Moron get his head blown off during their phony staged “assassination attempt.” They don’t even protect their own.
USA has been supporting the worst violence and tyranny possible in SA for decades if not centuries.
Full bi-partisan support.
Consider sophisticated assassination tools like the Bulgarian umbrella. Then realize that was invented 50 years ago. Imagine what the Russian spooks have access to now.
We’ve been at war since 2022 at the latest.
and since late 2024, Russia has been winning that war. Not on the ground mind you, but in regulatory capture of the United States, and takeover of the Information space. (Information war)
Shades of the Clinton murders conspiracy theory here. Yes, the odds of one woman dying like this are small, but with enough people around who have some connection to investigations into Russian activities, the odds that one of them would die are pretty good.
Shades of the Clinton murders conspiracy theory
I just call it liberal qanon.
People were making this claim back when the news first broke and since then the top search result including her name is “Jessica Aber cause of death”. The cause is officially Epileptic Seizure, and her family has chimed in to say:
"It is with tremendous sorrow that we acknowledge the sudden passing of our beloved Jessica (Jess) Aber, who died in her sleep on Saturday, March 22. Jess suffered from epilepsy and epileptic seizures for many years and on Tuesday, March 25, Alexandria (Virginia) Police said in a statement that they believe her death was the result of natural causes.”
So while it is possible that she was somehow drugged with some rare exotic neurotoxin that isn’t tested for, or she drank some suspicious glowing tea many years ago, it’s very very unlikely.
while i also believe this is nothing more than a coincidence,
i have to admit that, if she were truly deleted, her family would be instructed to repeat a favorable version of events.
Yes. The Russians killed her and had a sit down with her family where they told them to stick with the narrative of her dying by natural causes or else the Russians would be very, very mad and the family agreed to go along with it. And this all happened on American soil. That’s the most likely explanation for sure.
(/s because some of y’all… Just /s, OK?)
Lmao “instructed” bro this ain’t North Korea.
SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy) is quite rare, so this explanation of “natural causes” makes the situation a lot more suspicious.
SUDEP is rare, but that’s only because other people tend to be around during seizures. She was alone all night, and epileptics are also more likely to seize in their sleep; Something like 75% of all seizures start while the person is asleep.
I agree that making it look natural is much easier when the person is epileptic; The list of medications that interact with (or directly counteract) epilepsy meds is a mile long. However, that doesn’t mean we should immediately default to “it was a hit that used one of those drugs.”
Dying from epilepsy is only rare in circumstance that a person isn’t close by. Chances of Dying from epilepsy is quite scarey in that there is a possibility on every single epileptic seizure that a person could die.
People with epilepsy have a chance of dying if they are awake and no one is around fast enough to do anything.
Almost lost a neighbour this way.
if they are asleep there is less a chance someone might come by. Because everyone else is asleep and unless someone is in bed with you they wouldn’t know to wake up and do something to help.
97% of seizures spontaneously stop in less than 5minutes. People on medication ( that they actually take), seizures tend to be shorter and in the setting of partial onset epilepsy (which is usually the case in adults) they are also more focal or shorter at breakthrough. So yeah, technically any seizure can kill you, but in reality they very rarely do. Also, the family of this person was comfortable having her alone in her home suggesting this hasn’t been a regular occurrence etc.
Of course, this doesn’t mean anything but again, it is unusual.
97% of seizures spontaneously stop in less than 5minutes.
Does that mean that 3% of seizures require intervention?
I would imagine the probabilities aren’t independent, but if they were, the probability of someone staying in the 97% for 10 seizures in a row is 73.7%. 20 seizures in a row drops the probability to 54%. Under that math, even if the probability of something going wrong is low in any given seizure, someone who has many seizures in a lifetime will likely experience something serious at some point.
It means maybe take off the tinfoil hat for a bit.
Yeah, just because something is unusual, it doesn’t mean that another unusual explanation is automatically true.
She suffered epilepsy for years leading up to her death in her sleep. SUDEP is assigned when no other cause of death is found, but in the strictest sense this was neither sudden or unexpected.
You again?:) unless she died of aspiration pneumonitis, based on the information we have, this seems to meet criteria for SUDEP where the theory is a generalized seizure hitting the brain stem leading to sudden arrhythmia and cardiac arrest or respiratory arrest. But since it is sudden, and unexpected, there are very few instances captured on EMU. Also, it doesn’t seem likely that she was suffering from intractable epilepsy, otherwise she wouldn’t have been able to fulfill her duties as a judge, it’s always possible that she just stopped taking her medications, but even in that situation SUDEP remains rare. But please, tell me more about your Google search.
As many as 1 in 26 americans have symptoms of Epilepsy, 3 million have been formally diagnosed with epilepsy, it does not disqualify you as a judge.
“ symptoms of epilepsy?” Epilepsy is not a symptom. Anyway, Google intractable epilepsy.
Epilepsy is not a symptom. Epilepsy has symptoms.
“of” as in belonging to or annotating to, like “William of Orange” or “Side Effects of Ritalin.”
your search engine implies “seizures” as the symptom but given the existence of provoked/symptomatic seizures, not all seizures meet criteria for epilepsy as your edit now suggests. And most epilepsies aren’t intractable. Which is the point about its impact on employment/ job duties.
What if you’re wrong?
The meds aren’t always an insurance. she could be between meds if in case she’s had recent episodes and needing to change a perscription. This has happened to multiple people i know who are dealing with seizures as their lifestyle.
I’m sure the family had gotten the autopsy to be going the length of posting it as the official cause.
Totally possible, but high risk patients’ medication switches happen in the EMU (epilepsy monitoring unit).
Again, we are missing a lot of information here.
not that I don’t believe the Russians aren’t capable of it, but my uncle died of “sudden adult death syndrome”
just one day fell down and died, no cause determined. As far as anyone can tell wasn’t even a heart attack or an aneurysm (sp?).
My ex-spouse’s step-mother died from an acute case of not being alive anymore. She was in physically good health, good heart/blood pressure, mentally sharp, was a distance swimmer, ran, smoked occasionally (like 1-2 cigarettes a day), and was in her mid-60s. She collapsed in a supermarket and was dead before any help could arrive. The autopsy couldn’t find any cause of death; no ruptured aneurysm, no stroke, no heart attack or heart issues at all, no drug interactions, nothing. She just… stopped being alive.
Shit happens sometimes, and there’s not always an obvious cause.
But that’s usually a sudden cardiac arrhythmia. again I’m just saying that citing a very rare cause of death does not eliminate suspicion of foul play from a medical perspective, it amplifies it.
If anything, being able to explain it away by saying there are other valid options like “usually cardiac arrhythmia” is only weakening your point. It does not strengthen the idea that it must be one particular thing, like SUDEP, but it sure as shit doesn’t help the idea that she was assassinated. You could even be correct but it would be purely luck if this is how the conclusion is arrived at.
Also rare is not a non-zero chance. Even the smallest percentage is made up of real people.
My only point is that a nonchalant “oh it was just seizures” statement raises a lot more questions than it eliminates. At least from an MD’s perspective.
Then your point was incredibly poorly made. The only questions I can see it raising are about what could it be besides a purposeful murder and, if we’re feeling crazy, about the intentions of the poster. Thinking that everyone who doesn’t agree with us outright is a likely government plant is stupid, though, so I hope anyone with an MD perspective wouldn’t be too hot for that idea.
