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Comment by lionkor

3 days ago

> "I am not ashamed of my decision," he wrote, "but I don't want it to be discussed publicly either."

While I understand him, public personalities cannot really demand to avoid attention on such an existential topic.

  • The email was a "personal message to close friends", I think it's a reasonable request for him to ask them not to share the information.

He had to know it would be. I wonder if that was maybe an attempt to say this is completely personal and I'm not trying to encourage others to do the same or suggest it is the right thing for everyone to do?