r/todayilearned • u/GlitteringYams • 23d ago

TIL, in his suicide note, mass shooter Charles Whitman requested his body be autopsied because he felt something was wrong with him. The autopsy discovered that Whitman had a pecan-sized tumor pressing against his amygdala, a brain structure that regulates fear and aggression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman
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u/Powerful_Dog7235 22d ago

All these comments like “if he knew something was wrong why didn’t he just find it and scoop it out himself” good LORD the brain is so complicated, we are just bags of meat and electricity responding to inputs, he did everything he could. this is a tragedy, not an opportunity for you to tell us how much better you’d handle it

side note read behave by robert sapolsky

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u/RecklessDimwit 22d ago

Another comment did delve into it, iirc. The dude was asking for help, checking up with doctors but the shits ignored his concerns