No doubt they (the prison) let him kill himself. Even a court document noted he was emaciated. His lawyer quoted in the news sounded entirely unbothered/uninterested by it as well, being like "yea I guess he starved himself, who knows though".ericbarbour wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 8:41 pmit's bizarre that no one's revealing what happened to him. If he is dead, then the US Attorney is trying to cover it up. Perhaps some kind of misconduct by prison officials was involved?
Larson died from a 51+ day "silent" fast in prison. After the 20th or so time prison staff walked by him and saw his near corpse-like emaciation, they did the bare minimum required of them and hooked him up to a life glug, and then sent him to a california ICU, later Arizona. Before being sent to the ICU, he had sent letters about his experience in jail (and his "silent" fast) to a friend of his named 'Fukurou', who posted them on his behalf to multiple forum accounts under Larson's name. This took place on multiple, publicly available clearnet websites. Included in these letters is his suicide note, which was reposted on Rationalwiki's page on him.
I don't really want to post the sources for all this as it all comes from super awful websites, but as far as I can tell, its all accurate if it was tied to one of Fukurou's accounts. As fukurou was his only close friend, and he often posted the images of the letters, which had the same handwriting, and Larson's writing quirks, sense of humor, everything.
This page is so far the most accurate and updated page on him
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nathan_Larson
And now he's dead and gone. Rationalwiki responded by permabanning his remaining accounts posthumously and pretending they had done it during the main disciplinary hearing on him ("chicken coop") years ago (they didn't). RW also deleted (a few) of Larson's RW pages, including [[child pornography]] and some dating/MRA related pages.
Larson had sent a few emails to me in late 2019. Pretty much all of them were about him going to a mental hospital, and him wanting to take a French language class. He had found me through stalking me on various websites and then found my email on my youtube. He liked the fact I didn't like Wikipedia shitting on adult virgins, and that I liked editing wikis, so that might be why he sought me out.
Only pedo thing he mentioned to me was some news report on some African political party or something that was pro-pedophilia, I don't really remember, I found that weird and then didn't respond to it. At the time I didn't really understand who he was. Regardless, I blocked his email in late 2019 or early 2020 after he sent photos of himself going on a water fast (including bothering his mom about his increasingly gaunt appearance) because I had banned him from one of my forum within two days of him joining. Not long after I (and other sites, including rationalwiki) blocked him, he created his more extreme sites. Tuned out at that point and stopped paying attention to his websites.
A lot of his stuff remains all over the internet though. On Wikimedia, most notably through his suicide instructions which are still present on Wikibooks.