Dave Goldberg cause of death? I think it’s suicide
First of all, let me say that I feel really bad for everyone who is losing Dave Goldberg in their life. I feel bad that he will not get to see his two kids grow up. His death is very sad. I have not had a spouse die or a parent die and I’m sure the experience is more awful than I could even imagine.
Still. I can’t help but wonder how he died. It is completely standard in journalism to report the cause of death when the announcement is made. After the initial, cursory announcement of death, major publications frequently run an obituary when a famous person dies, yet the Wall St. Journal and the New York Times ran formal obituaries and still mention nothing of the cause of death.
If there were suspicion of murder, there would be a police report.
If there were some sort of complicated condition that Dave kept a secret, the death announcement could follow a time-honored tradition of being vague and uninformative, like saying “heart condition” or “muscular complication” or even “degenerative disease”.
Let’s say he has a terrible disease, like the one in Still Alice, where he will die early and so will his children. And let’s say his children do not know and the family has chosen not to tell them. Fine. The announcement could use that same, vague language.
If the family does not want to talk about the cause of death, it seems that the most logical thing to do would be to announce some sort of vague cause that would stop people from asking questions. But surely the family knows there will be questions if they say nothing. Dave and Sheryl are the most vocal couple on the planet about how to have a dual-career marriage, and one half of that marriage is gone. Of course people will ask questions. The best way to stop the questions is to give a vague, boring cause of death.
So the only explanation I can see for being totally quiet on this topic is that he killed himself.
Why is this important? Why do I get to ask the personally invasive question about his death?
Because Sheryl Sandberg, who was married to him, is not only Facebook’s COO, but she is also the author of the book Lean In. That book tells women that they should have a career like Sheryl’s. And, most significantly for this post, that women should pick a spouse like Dave.
Sheryl has said over and over again that it is because of her spouse that she is able to Lean In (which, loosely translated, means work insanely long hours and have kids and have a great marriage).
I want to know, how can someone Lean In as a single parent? I wonder how someone will Lean In when there is no other parent to comfort a sad child.
If this sounds spiteful and ugly it is. But I think it is also appropriate, and who else would say it besides me?
Most people have something in their life that prevents them from leaning in. I don’t actually even think this is a gender thing. I coach hundreds of men whose earning power plateaus because they won’t relocate or they won’t work weekends, or they want to be home for spring break. It’s not that we are victims of life, it’s that at some point in most of our lives there comes a time when something else is more important than Leaning In.
I don’t have any evidence that it was a suicide. All I have is someone notable died and no one is saying how. And however Sheryl’s husband died is news, since she has been news for three years telling women their husband is instrumental into the process of Leaning In.
But really, I just want to know how Dave died. Because I think he killed himself. And if he did, this might tells us a lot about what happens when both people in marriage Lean In.
Update: A few hours after I published this post news outlets started reporting various other causes of death. Here is my response to those reports: Do we still have to lean in if Dave Goldberg is dead?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/technology/dave-goldberg-cause-of-death.html
Exercising in Mexico: NY Times reports online.
Hasn’t Re/Code published that he died in Mexico while exercising? Didn’t read all the comments, so if someone else has pointed this out, apologies for the duplication.
Whether you agree/disagree with this article (personally, I rushed to read it because the first thing that came to my mind was suicide, and found it odd that the media didn’t say why), can we all agree that it is ironic that a highly visible persona promoting/expousing having it ALL, perfect career, perfect husband, perfect kids…..husband dead at 47 (regardless of cause) is freaking IRONIC!!!! That is all I’m sayin – no judgment on Penelope or the comments.
Of course dual career couples have it rough… And of course not everyone has the capacity–mentally, physically or economically–to lean in the way Sheryl and her husband (did.). It’s not clear that it’s good for our well-being to lean in so hard. But I bet when all is said and done, Sheryl will say that she has no regrets about how they lived their lives… even if it turns out that stress may have been a contributing role. Because some people choose to live like bright flames, and who are any of us to negate that choice?
Penelope, it’s obvious that you’ve had a big change of perspective about the meaning of YOUR life, but that even though you’ve made clear choices, those choices still consume you with guilt and worry. I can tell that this post is attempting to be thoughtful and altruistic– that is, it’s coming from a place of worrying about the messages women are receiving about leaning in because in general, the messages are very unrealistic.
We need to create our own standards for what a good life looks like, and not be swayed by others. And those standards need to change based on our life circumstances. I’m sure that Sheryl Sandberg’s standards will change, now that she’s faced with this terrible new reality. And I’m sure she will write and share about it. She’s learning and living out loud, just like you.
Maybe your next post should include a reflection of why your own circumstances caused you to jump to conclusions.
There are a ton of ways to die that they wouldn’t necessarily want disclosed. He was heavy — did he choke to death having a late night snack? Sounds like a fatty joke but I’m not joking. Accidents happen. Or fell and hit his head. There are countless ways to die that they wouldn’t necessarily want published — I wouldn’t leap to conclude suicide. By all accounts he was a great human being and there were no whispers of depression. Besides, who goes on vacay to kill themselves?
On another note, I strongly suspect a lot of the people attacking Lean In didn’t actually read it. It would be gross simplification to say it’s about women having it all. It certainly would like women to have it all and it really does an excellent job of running through things that can or do hold women back — most of them having to do with socialization. I’m shocked at the attacks that Sandberg, as the author and as a wildly successful woman, is the target of. She’s brilliant and beautiful and well-educated. That alone would have given her an amazing leg up in life but she does make many great points about how women sabotage themselves.
I agree with all that has been said regarding this being in poor taste. Just because someone dies suddenly doesn’t equal suicide or depression and to speculate and throw this bomb out is cruel.
Ever hear of cardiac sarcoidosis? Google it and see why it is gaining in causes of death. I don’t know anything – I am speculating but this cause of death seems more likely than what Pen has thrown out there.
It causes sudden death, is hard to diagnose and may require an autopsy which is somewhat forbidden in Judaism.
Let the family grieve over their sudden loss and stop throwing bombs at a family in great pain.
you didn’t say anything wrong, but it seems so brutal when you say it. And why the picture of the widow, not the deceased?
She totally said something both wrong and cruel and blamed a book out of jealously probably because Sandberg’s book and advice sells better than hers.
And this blogger Penelope Trunk is a life coach? Just proof of how screwed up our media is. I can’t think of a worse person to be treaching on life that this utterly cruel person.
I think these are entirely valid questions. The mystery surrounding the reporting is suspicious. These are public people. Most of us feel sorry about any and all untimely deaths. However, it’s not for us to grieve with someone we don’t know about someone we don’t know. That is presumptuous.
All we know about this couple is Sheryl’s book. Her book seems to repeat the mantra that success and happiness are entirely based on the choices we make. That mantra always includes the preposterous assumption that we all have an array of possibilities to choose from. That is not true. And if it was not true for this couple, suppression of information will not stop people from postulating that the “poor choices dictate all outcomes” mantra was wrong.
The rest of you can go on with your pretense that you’re part of the grieving family. I feel terrible for this grieving family, but I also would like to know what happened to Dave Goldberg. There is humanity in understanding that despite all of the good choices that were made, sometimes bad things happen. We can forgive ourselves for the fact that we were never going to be entirely in control of our destiny.
Whether we lean in or not, we have to do the best we can with the parameters we have around us. And when mental illness occurs and/or bad things happen, we must face them honestly and accept life’s slings and arrows and go forward. The pursuit of information regarding what happened to Dave Goldberg can be a very good thing for the rest of us to learn from. Privacy must be respected, but secrecy is seldom a good choice.
I came across this article when I typed Goldberg’s death.
Ms Penelope, there are three words that might describe you: brave, stupid or evil. If you are proven right every top news channel is going to start hiring you for the kind of investigation of celebrities and rich people they do not do, or will not do.
If you are proven wrong then the SV mafia, cartel or network will come after you and a lot of your own friends will say “She was stupid to write that”.
And if you are found to be far away from the truth some people would say you were horribly evil.
But for your sake I hope you are brave. NYT did a horrible piece that did not sound like an eulogy…but some creepy last minute PR work. It was not nice at all. It also started tongues wagging.
If you are proven right…then people would want to know your source and/or perceptiveness.
If you are right then Ms Sandberg also might do well to openly talk about the stress of over worked men with overworking women.
Best wishes to Ms Sandberg, and to you too.
Penelope is a little brave. She’s definitely not stupid. And she’s definitely not evil.
Like many of us who grew up with too many expectations, some self-imposed, many imposed by society, she’s pretty anxious, insecure and not very grounded. She’s a perfectionist who thinks it’s possible to be perfectly messy. She spends too much time in her own head, thinking about her own choices, and comparing herself to others’ choices.
Alternatively, I suppose she’s a genius who has created a persona that is all of these things because women find other women with these persona to be infinitely relatable… because of the way women are socialized. There’s probably some aspect of how P. conducts herself online that is about the complex victimized, insecure, super know-it-all female persona of today.
It’s just not extremely brave to speculate about the potential dangers of leaning in. It’s not like we aren’t already IN a national conversation about how stressed out and over-worked people are. Just because the media is in a love-fest with Sandberg about her ideas doesn’t mean that average women buy into them.
And just because many of us are stressed out and pulled in a million directions doesn’t mean we’re going to get affordable childcare any time soon.
Mashable article states he died while exercising in Mexico…
And yet MSN.com said “The Silicon Valley entrepreneur, who was CEO of SurveyMonkey, died suddenly in his sleep”
Oh, wait, no; he was exercising.
Tell me which one we’re supposed to believe today?
Shame, shame, shame. The worst kind of click bait. Will never read this blog again. http://recode.net/2015/05/04/david-goldberg-died-in-mexico-exercising-during-vacation/
SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg, the longstanding, respected figure among Silicon Valley’s elite, died suddenly on Friday evening. Until now, however, details surrounding his death have remained unclear.
A source close to the family confirmed to Mashable that Goldberg was on vacation with family and friends at a private resort in Mexico, and died after collapsing while exercising at the gym there. Efforts to revive him both on-site and at the hospital were unsuccessful.
Reports from Re/code and the New York Times broke the news on Monday.
The family is planning a service and burial in California. The family is planning a service and burial in California.
Goldberg is survived by his wife and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, and a young daughter and a son. Following the announcement of his death on Saturday, many members of the tech community expressed sympathy on Twitter, Goldberg’s Facebook timeline and elsewhere online.
“No words can express the depth of loss we feel, but we want his children to learn how much he meant to all of you,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post.
Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.
David Goldberg is a strong person, and he wouldn’t make this decision. Thus, I respectfully disagree with this post.
There are some reasons his family members don’t want to share some information. Anyways, it is a terrible thing for the family.
Agree. Let him rest in peace and his family mourn his tragic & sudden death in private.
Source : Mashable.com
This is a very bold post. I think it would have been in good taste to find out the circumstances of Mr Goldberg’s death before using it as a platform to bash Lean In.
You may well turn out to be right and I agree on your overall sentiments about the Lean in mythology. I appreciate your insights on many other topics.
But I can’t help feeling you over reached yourself on this one Penny.
I think this is the shame (in all senses of the word) of the blogosphere… that forwarding one’s opinion becomes more important than genuine empathy and love for others in times of deep distress.
As a sudden cardiac arrest survivor who collapsed, CPR preformed, revived and alive today I can appreciate the tragic trauma Dave’s wife and kids are experiencing now. Rest in peace. http://www.businessinsider.com/dave-goldberg-cause-of-death-2015-5
Who the f runs around speculating about crap like this? A pandering blogger. His death is not a public event. Let’s step back and ponder *that*. Someone died, someone’s terribly sad, we do not need to watch from the comfort of our internet and speculate. I found this post because I searched “[guy’s name] cause of death” because someone said something about death after exercise, and i thought, well, i’m cutting exercise out of my day! here i find the worst sort of speculative gawking with all these trappings of concern and prudence. it ain’t, so step back and stfu.
Wow… Penelope… you have not a clue what it is to lose the love of your life… NOT A CLUE… and to insinuate suicide with no evidence other than a family wanting to not discuss the cause of death… maybe because they were in such shock.. grief stricken… out of their minds with the suddeness…Sheryl can probably barely breathe right now….I cannot even describe the physical pain that goes along with this.. this was a spiteful, mean post… and it turns out he was exercising… heart attack, stroke, embolism, aneurysm… who knows… and even it it was suicide..all your post showed is that you, my dear, are a pretty mean girl…
It’s entirely possible they did not know the cause at the time of death. It could have been an MI, a pulmonary embolism, a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
There are many natural causes that can happen quite suddenly, and the cause may be pending an autopsy.
He was on vacation at the time of death… suicide? really?
I grew up with David and his brother Robert, I know his mom and I remember his dad. I’m quite certain you have no idea what you are talking about.
When my husband committed suicide, and I was making his burial arrangements and obit, I was told by the funeral director to use “died suddenly” as the description. It’s like the secret way to say someone committed suicide. Every time I see “died suddenly” with no other explanation, I immediately assume suicide. Really any other reason would at least be slightly explained, as in “died suddenly of heart complications” or something. If he was killed an accident, news would at lease allude to that. So to me, the only explanation is suicide. It is sad indeed and I feel for his wife, it is horrible to have to deal with the loss of a spouse.
time.com says that he died while exercising at the gym and attempts to revive at gym and hospital were unsuccessful. apologies if this has already been posted.
David Goldberg, Silicon Valley CEO and husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, died suddenly Friday night while exercising.
The 47-year-old CEO of SurveyMonkey collapsed in the gym of a private resort in Mexico, the New York Times reports. A person close to the family told the New York Times that efforts to revive Goldberg at the gym and at the hospital were unsuccessful.
This post exemplifies the worst of the blogosphere. It’s a anti feminist diatribe with no evidence to support the suicide theory.
Just wait two minutes, people. NYT now reporting he died whole exercising in a private resort in Mexico. I’m sure he just had a heart attack.
I hope you delete this disgusting post and disappear from the internet forever. You’re a true shame to yourself and your family.
Love your comment!! Thank you!
Me Too!
“So the only explanation I can see for being totally quiet on this topic is that he killed himself” Your lack of imagination, empathy and wisdom is the root cause of your failure to conceive of other explanations. How about: “we don’t yet know”, “it’s none of your business”, “we’re not in the business of writing death announcements, so maybe we didn’t get you the level of detail required to satisfy your morbid curiosity”. Reports are that he collapsed in a gym in Mexico where they were vacationing. Satisfied?
He died at the gym while excercising. No scandal. It seems the world would be a better place without Penelope Trunks brand of utterly vicious jealously. I will remember her name as one to avoid on advice on anything. Anything.
Run, run away from this so called life coach who has major jealously issues and the conciousness growth age of a spoiled two year old, and a bully two year old with no compassion at that.
Amen!!
Penelope, I’m an avid reader of your blog and I normally agree with you, but this post left a bad taste in my mouth. Assuming your theory is true – is it more important to you to eviscerate the Lean In movement than it is to give the family privacy and protect his children from unfounded and incendiary speculation?
Penelope — you said what everyone was wondering, and got slammed for it. People like Martha Stewart or Sandburg invite schadenfreude–because in order to sell their ideas they are presenting a (threatening) image of a perfect life — no life is perfect; every life ends.
There is no German word for when you want to engage in schadenfreude but your really shouldn’t because it is too grave and tragic a situation. But that is what we have here.
Had it been suicide, your piece would have absolutely been mainstream in a week or two..
This is the most cynical and disgusting blog post I’ve had the misfortune to come across.
For some reason many people are just horrifically gleeful at the thought that Sheryl Sandberg may have some comeuppance coming her way. Apparently garnering page views by idly speculating about someone’s cause of death is “journalism.”
It’s not journalism, it’s blogging. There’s a reason she’s not an actual journalist – and we now know why.
This is why Penelope Trunk is a blogger and not a journalist! A real journalist/reporter reports facts, they don’t try to disgrace a man/his family by making totally unfounded accusations as she’s done here. Just because they didn’t immediately announce the cause death does not automatically mean it’s suicide. Many times, you don’t know right away, and honestly, it’s not your damn business Penelope!
Goldberg was hardly obese! Anyone stating such has clearly never met the man. He may not have had the physique of a top athlete, but wonder how many posting here do? Let the man rest on peace, allow the family to grieve their loss, and take your hatred someplace else.
Again a great article. Refreshing to have somebody who says the truth!
The truth??? She spread gossip, there was no truth to her article at all.
Except that it is entirely speculation based on speculation and almost certainly wrong in both cases.
Penelope – get a life! This is why you’re s blogger and not a journalist. Clearly you’re a jealous spiteful person, and now everyone who reads your blog knows how careless you are to release unfounded gossip. I don’t read your blog but heard about your accusations and had to read this BS to actually believe it. Jealousy and unhappiness is an ugly trait, as you have clearly displayed here.
Now it comes out that he died while exercising at the hotel gym in Mexico. Speculate much?!
Pure speculation!! She’s a careless piece of #*%!
To the chastisers who are familiar with Penelope’s blog: let’s be honest — you do not come to this blog simply for diplomatic career advice and benign commentary. Penelope’s style offers you a multifaceted rubberneck you enjoy so much you probably have your chiropractor on speed dial. This post is entirely consistent with blogging your distain for Tim Ferriss and your miscarriage. This is blog is never written in the spirit of US Weekly. Whether you agree with her findings or not, P’s Rain Man propensity for research, identification and prediction of cultural and socio-economics behavior patterns is what makes this blog clicked. That and her incredibly honest portrayal of her often dysfunctional life. Because you just love that shit. I get it; I’m a voyeur, too. It feels good to chastise while deep deep down, you quietly suspect you may be part of the “problem,” but aren’t quite ready to accept it yet. But seriously, stop projecting.
To the chastisers who found Penelope’s blog in a google search: I’m really sorry you needed to type in “Dave Goldberg death” so bad. You must be incredibly scandalized to see all of the various speculation and commentary on the topic you wanted to know more about.
To Penelope: I know that this man’s death seems like a perfect platform for hoisting up a point you’ve been trying desperately to get people to hear for some time. But you were a little too eager, and your editor a little too soft-handed. The last line of your blog post was more of a snide mic drop than a strategic CTA for the productive conversation you’ve long hoped for. You’re usually smarter than that.
Her “editor???” She’s a blogger, not s journalist. If she has an editor, they should have been fired long ago. Her writing style of choppy, self-absorbed sentences make it sound as though a junior high student does her writing.
As a young man, I can plainly see how toxic feminism (and marriage) has become towards men.
Women initiate 80% of divorces. Domineering, aggressive ‘career women’ is a path to misery (ask dave Goldberg).
More and more men will start backing out of marriage. It’s plainly a raw deal for men
The man died exercising, you idiot. He didn’t kill himself!
Really? Two kids lost their dad. A woman lost her husband. The list goes on and you have the audacity to write something like this. What right could you possibly have to suggest the cause of death? What the devil do you know about suicide or when details of death would be released? Even if it was suicide, who are you to publicize comments like these about people you don’t even know. It’s simply vile.
Amen to that! And as the real journalist who waited for the facts now know, this crazy $&t$ couldn’t have been more wrong.
In my experience men who don’t have the greatest genes can start dropping dead in their late 40s. I don’t know anything about this fellow, but my assumption was that he was out on vacation, got more active than he’d been before and his biology caught up with him.
We had a gal in her 30s who had a heart attack in our office, it happens.
All those billions don’t do you any good if the ticker goes.
NY Times reporting he died while exercising in Mexico at a resort.
If this was my blog I wouldn’t allow comments. What a f-ed up world where an individual expresses her comments and opinions which don’t fit with the mainstream sheep mentality and she gets bullied. That is the disturbing part to me. Really disturbing and scary.
First, she’s probably wrong about the cause. Second, even if she’s right (unlikely), she tries (most likely in error) to link it to the Lean In thing. Third, as pretty much everyone knows, it is an extremely sensitive topic for obvious reasons and generally calls for much more careful conversation than was exhibited here. I think the criticism is more than warranted.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/miguelhelft/2015/05/04/dave-goldberg-died-after-exercising-while-on-vacation-in-mexico/
Heart attack?
Stop it, people. The poor guy died after collapsing at a gym. Lets stop speculating and give the family time to grieve before we spin up rumors.
We still don’t know the truth. We only know what is being reported. Frequently not the same.
i agree. An anonymous source leaked this info no name of the hotel, location in Mexico (not really overseas is it now) or the hospital to the ever obedient NY Times. I don’t believe it. And all of the posters who feel Penelope had no right to comment….please. Don’t read it then. This is a blog. Mrs. Goldberg has asked for this by putting herself on a very public pedestal. And no I didn’t read the book.
Penelope messed up on this one. Wondering if it might have been a suicide is fine…the family could easily have avoided such a thing by including a reason as it finally did today (while exercising in Mexico).
But taking the next step in trying to establish a link to Sheryl’s Lean In campaign is willful malice. It’s too soon and you are actually probably wrong about the cause of death.
This is highly speculative, obviously. Any suicide has so many factors it is impossible and even irresponsible to point to a single cause. So this is an inappropriate post, and perhaps incorrect. Photos of Mr. Goldberg shows a body habitus that’s pretty typical of sudden cardiac death. And there are plenty of alternatives.
But I’m struck by what this tells us about the nature of private and public lives. Ms. Sandburg is the number 2 in Facebook, which makes all our lives public. She has always courted publicity, which is fine because it helped get recognition of her pet projects. But now she wants things to be private. I respect this as well, but it is at odds with her chosen profession. Because what does Facebook do other than sell nonsense like Candy Crush and make us look at stupid videos? It doesn’t cure cancer. But it does connect us in this pseudo personal manner. Many people, including myself, have had great unease with this and we struggle to balance personal, private, public, and how to set our control settings.
Regardless of the cause of death, Ms. Sandberg is entering the grief process and I wish her well. Added to this is how to handle the control settings on her and her late husband’s personal life.
Hi Penelope,
There is always room for discussion as it often facilitates growth. However, to use a death as a way to reinforce one’s own platform gives pause to the value of the content. I am a former business executive who chose to become a licensed psychotherapist. I understand the pressures of having a significant corporate career while balancing a family life. However, to use this tragedy as a way to “show” there is really no way to find balance in a “power couple” situation feels much less about them and much more about you. If Dave did indeed choose to take his own life, there could be many complex reasons for his choice, including depression (something that can be present even in what society would define as a healthy work/life balance). I encourage you to keep your perspective open while examining the life events and actions of others.
“However, to use this tragedy as a way to “show” there is really no way to find balance in a “power couple” situation feels much less about them and much more about you.”
Exactly. This post isn’t about the Sandbergs, it’s really about Penelope’s quest to make her life make sense. I get it– who among us doesn’t question our life choices, particularly when we struggle. But the thing is, many women are lucky to have husbands who support them in leaning in. Good for them! Sure it might be the exception rather than the rule to have a BIG career, kids and a great marriage, but why shit on others’ exceptionalism? People shouldn’t take Sheryl’s life as a blueprint, but we also shouldn’t fault her for turning her exceptional life into a brand… after all, that’s exactly what Penelope does, and what she advises others to attempt as well.
The family is still waiting for the autopsy report before saying how David died. Heart disease or high blood pressure causing stroke or a heart attack could also be a factor in his death.
Agree with Anna. These people are the most media savvy manipulating folks in the world. I believe the report that he died while exercising from a “close friend” is sheryl’s PR people to cover up whatever really happened. And it came out today to damper the response to speculation that he committed suicide, over dosed etc. Otherwise why didn’t she just say this in the first place?
I didn’t read Lean In. Although, I’ve seen it on many nightstands.
I feel bad for the family.
The family, or the parents rather (not sure how the children are fairing and feel about the lifestyle- has anyone interviewed them?), made their interviewed and written lives extremely public as a reflection of their real-lives. That kind of guts requires honesty, to claim a ‘new-way-of-life’ works and a genuineness to put it all on the table as a practical guide. I’ve read today, briefly, that she did not like answering to domestic help questions. When we are all pretty aware she did not homeschool, unschool, or see her kids often, not saying ‘sure, I have 2 nannies and private schooling’ openly disregards her original intent of ‘putting it all in the open’ and that literally nothing in life gives. I had to dig around and to find that her husband is quoted as saying his life works because he is A. CEO that can dictate his time and schedule and B. has family that helps raise the kids.
Well there it is- domestic help and grandparents to tend to family matters while you climb the ladder AND a spouse that has sustained control over their time. That’s nothing new.
Since she has invited so much attention (an entire organization?!) on her re-brand of a woman having it all, I don’t see the questions that have now risen as problematic in any form, since her original equation to make it work is now effectively halved.
Her husbands passing does not help her self-appointed cause in any form. If he killed himself, if he had a heart attack, if he was murdered etc, all take away from her mantra.
She will probably write a book about leaning out, or continuing to lean in and be strong for the kids, or whatever. Maybe this time she will be honest about what it really takes and the personal sacrifice everyone in the family goes through for self achievement. The first step would start with releasing the information about his death.
*I’m commenting about the future of Lean-In and SS. I/we would not be reading articles about her unless she made her family public through her book. Comments beyond condolences are a natural byproduct.
Still think suicide? No matter what anyone surmises, speculates, etc, the fmaily has now made a declaration: death post exercise in P.V. MX, not really thought of as “abroad”. Let it go. This is what they want known. Rather this than a suicide. Still very very sad.
From The New York Times:
Dave Goldberg, Silicon Valley Executive, Said to Have Died After Exercising
The 47-year-old chief of SurveyMonkey, who was married to Sheryl
Sandberg of Facebook, collapsed at a Mexican resort, a person close to
the family said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/technology/dave-goldberg-cause-of-death.html?mwrsm=Email