Anyone else notice how many "suicides" happen right after people leak government documents?

Right so this is something I've been thinking about for years and it keeps nagging at me.

The pattern is hard to ignore. Someone comes forward with something damaging, the noise starts building, and then weeks or months later they're dead and it gets ruled self-inflicted. Every time. And the story just... stops. That's the bit that gets me more than anything - not just the deaths, but how effectively they kill the conversation along with the person.

I'm not saying every single case is sinister, some probably are genuine tragedies, people who leak stuff are often already in a dark place mentally. But the statistical clustering of it is genuinely odd and I don't think you need to be a hardcore conspiracist to find that worth examining.

Has anyone actually done a proper breakdown of the numbers? Like documented cases with timelines? Because I feel like if someone compiled that properly it would be pretty striking. There must be researchers who've looked at this more rigorously than the usual YouTube rabbit hole stuff.

Not really my area tbh, I mostly stick to haunted objects and that sort of thing. But even I know that "suicide" in inverted commas every time someone inconvenient dies starts to feel a bit lazy after a while - at some point you need actual evidence or it just becomes a way of making any death fit the narrative you already believe.