LGBTQ teen Nex Benedict died by suicide, medical examiner says
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An autopsy report released by the Oklahoma’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that Nex Benedict, a member of the 2SLGBTQ community, died by suicide.

The cowards, this is how its being reported on all major news channels. Lie after lie.

In a statement to ABC News, the Owasso Police Department said it suspected the cause of Benedict’s death, but refrained from saying anything pending the results of the medical examiner’s office.

The students of Oklahoma are holding walkouts to honor Nex. It would be appreciated if you joined any nearby vigil or march honoring them, in solidarity.

Remember that this wasn’t some passive death, transphobes actively and knowingly agitated harm against them. This was a murder, not a suicide. They, an indigenous trans minor, died in the hospital after being assaulted in the bathroom by 6 transphobes.

Last week, a family buried their nonbinary child, Nex Benedict, who died after being brutally beaten in the girls’ bathroom at their high school in Oklahoma. According to their mother, 16-year-old Benedict had been bullied relentlessly for a year leading up to the incident, in which a group of peers ganged up on them and a trans student. It’s a horrific case and one that is inseparable from its context amid a climate of seemingly unceasing anti-LGBT demonization in the state and the nation.

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Remember, an injury against one of us is an injury against all of us.

  • ForgetPrimacy@lemmygrad.ml
    30·
    9 months ago

    From what I remember when this was a fresher story, Nex died shortly after being sent away from a hospital they were at after sustaining a head injury. The spontaneous death from an untreated brain bleed hours later is now being ruled a suicide?

    • Catradora-Stalinism☭@lemmygrad.mlOP
      31·
      9 months ago

      they sustained a head injury because a bunch of transphobes (6 to be exact) beat them until they lost consciousness. this was literally murder and they are ruling it a suicide.

    • CableMonster
      121·
      9 months ago

      I think it was the next morning. Unless there is some other indication I would have to say it was due to suicide like they claim.

      • Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        21·
        9 months ago

        Ah, yes, they just chose to get a head injury from being beat up to the point of losing consciousness and by the way happened to die the next morning for completely unrelated reasons…

        :gulag:

        • CableMonster
          111·
          9 months ago

          Do you have any idea the actual cause of death? I dont, and if they say suicide, and they have waited this long to confirm, then I would say it was suicide unless you have some compelling information to say its not.

          • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
            15·
            9 months ago

            if they say suicide […] then I would say it was suicide unless you have some compelling information to say its not

            Counterargument: if they say suicide then I would say it was most definitely not suicide unless you have some compelling information to say it is.

            In cases like this always assume they are lying and reality is the exact opposite of what they claim.

            • CableMonster
              21·
              9 months ago

              And I think they do have compelling evidence to make the claim or it would be quickly debunked by the family. I am skeptical of authority and would absolutely jump on board on the government is lying if you actually had some solid information about them actually lying.

              I think your best argument is that the suicide was the result of how they were treated.

          • ForgetPrimacy@lemmygrad.ml
            13·
            9 months ago

            Yes, we do. The day following the sustainment of head injuries which resulted in the acute loss of consciousness (that is, the day after Nex sustained a severe brain injury) Nex was with their mother preparing to travel for an appointment when their eyes rolled back in their head, they collapsed and were struggling to breathe.

            The next day, Benedict called 911 requesting medics for Nex, whose eyes were rolling back and was struggling to breathe. Benedict described how Nex had been dealing with a headache after the fight at the school.

            Above quote from Fox23 article Owasso Police release body cam video, 911 call, leading up to student’s death following fight in school bathroom
            Fox23 News Article
            Internet Archive of the same Fox23 News Article

            • CableMonster
              11·
              9 months ago

              I am aware of this, but they said there was indications of suicide but they didnt want to confirm it until they were sure. How do you know there wasnt a bottle of pills taken that morning?

              • SpookyBogMonster
                3·
                9 months ago

                Prozac and Benadryl, the two drugs that supposedly killed Nex, interact at high doses, in the form of Serotonin Syndrome. Serotonin Syndrome kills you relatively slowly, and has a fatality rate of about 1-2%. It’s very easy to treat, and the symptoms Nex had, did not match those of serotonin syndrome.

                Serotonin Syndrome symptoms from Mayoclinic:

                Compare that to Nex’s symptoms, from Vox:

                “The assault was so violent that Benedict says he ‘blacked out’…Benedict texted a relative later. '[I] had to go to the ER… if I’m still dizzy and nauseous in the morning I might have a concussion.'The next morning, Sue Benedict placed a call to 911, stating that Benedict had fallen unconscious and appeared to be ‘posturing,’ exhibiting involuntary motions that can indicate brain trauma. Benedict returned to the hospital but was pronounced dead soon after arrival.”

                Additionally worth noting, the cause of death which was released made no determination on the levels of the two drugs that were in Nex’s system, nor made any reference to Serotonin Syndrome, only a “Toxic interaction.” Both of which feel like strange things to leave out, if this was the cause of death.

                I remain Pretty skeptical, all things considered

                • CableMonster
                  11·
                  9 months ago

                  Thats fine, but the people with all of the information are not us, and so I am going to believe the people with the data unless there is a smoking gun.

      • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
        18·
        9 months ago

        So if Alice shoots Bob, and Bob survives the initial shooting only to die later from, say, blood loss or additional shock due to the very same bullet wound, Bob committed suicide and Alice didn’t do anything wrong?

        • CableMonster
          114·
          9 months ago

          Why do you assume Nex died from the injuries from the assault?