Aaron Swartzs Girlfriend Explains Why Aaron Died

Aaron Swartz, the late digital rights activist and hacker, did not kill himself because he was depressed, according to his girlfriend.

Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman found Swartz dead in their Brooklyn apartment on Jan. 11, and as she explains, she is the person Swartz spent the most time with in the last 20 months of his life -- living together, commuting together and working together. And for her, that person she spent so much time with was not showing symptoms of depression, according to an emotional blog post on Tumblr.

At the time of his death, Swartz was facing a potential conviction of 35 years and up to $1 million in fines for allegedly downloading thousands of scholarly article…
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