(April 27, 2012 at 5:19 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Thank you for the kind words. The actual cause of death was never established; one or two possibilities were raised but they are impossible to prove and frankly too horrible to contemplate. It went down on the certificate as "unexpected death due to epilepsy" despite there being absolutely no evidence to support that conclusion, simply because the coroner's inquest had to put something. The treatment may indirectly have been a contributory factor, nothing to do with the actual treatment itself. It's all rather involved and I'd need a whole new thread to cover it all.
None of this is the reason why I am an atheist, I identified as such long before this happened. So I'm not 'angry at god' or anything so silly. I was never taken in by that stuff before, and I'm certainly not falling for it now.
I actually am more surprised you are an atheist after something like that, really. After traumatic events such as that, religion starts to look really good. In a weakened state is where most people find themselves as they are converting. I think this makes you one of, like...three people I know of who did not let emotionally blistering events induce a conversion.
