Biohacker Aaron Traywick found dead

The CEO of a biomedical startup who sparked controversy when he injected himself with an untested herpes treatment in front of a live audience in February has died, according to an email sent to Live Science.
Aaron Traywick, the CEO of Ascendance Biomedical, was found dead at 11:30 a.m. ET on Sunday (April 29) in a spa room in Washington, D.C., according to a statement provided to Live Science by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) of the District of Columbia. Traywick was 28 years old.

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  • Rest In Peace
  • Did he ever state for the record what was in the injection? Maybe we could learn from his mistake so he didn’t die in vain.

  • The cause of death is still unknown, the media likes to imply that the injection was to blame.

  • @Crucible said:
    The cause of death is still unknown, the media likes to imply that the injection was to blame.

    It certainly seems like one hell of a coincidence given his age

  • @ThermalWinter said:

    @Crucible said:
    The cause of death is still unknown, the media likes to imply that the injection was to blame.

    It certainly seems like one hell of a coincidence given his age

    Given that he was face down in a sensory deprivation pod that was partly full of water would give a stronger indication of drowning.
    Ketamine was found in his pockets and the door to the pod was open when it should have been locked. It is pretty suspicious.

  • @Crucible said:

    @ThermalWinter said:

    @Crucible said:
    The cause of death is still unknown, the media likes to imply that the injection was to blame.

    It certainly seems like one hell of a coincidence given his age

    Given that he was face down in a sensory deprivation pod that was partly full of water would give a stronger indication of drowning.
    Ketamine was found in his pockets and the door to the pod was open when it should have been locked. It is pretty suspicious.

    That is definitely odd circumstance

  • not really. Lemme clear this up so we can move past this cause it's getting real old. He was a weird fucking guy, with horrible health habits. The entire time I knew hew, the extent of the food he ate was a single 3 inch by half inch tube of walnut paste and he always smelled like he was dying. Yes that has a smell, and it's very distinct. When I heard he died I just assumed he finally keeled over from starvation, or passed out from it and drowned. The fact that he was on ketamine at the time is a testament to the poor choices he made. No need to get conspiratorial about this. He was just an idiot that got himself killed, by all account by poor choice of time to use drugs. If some pharma company was after him or something he'd have been hit by a car or something that would draw less attention than dying in the most conspicuous and news worthy way possible.

    BTW He injected himself with the bare DNA of the herpes virus, not the live virus that would've been in the actual vaccine. In theory it could do the same job at a fraction of the price, so while he was urged by literally everyone involved not to do it, had it worked it could have provided some interesting data for further study.

    Also he was a complete piece of shit to everyone involved. Ask any of the people that worked with him... Let him be dead and move on. There are people still doing great work, of which his only real involvement was as a source of money since he knew exactly dick about the science. Look at the talk he gave before the injection. He called a virus a "nano robotic system" and jumped from treating one disease using a well established method being replicated from the literature (the herpes treatment), to curing cancer. Cause that's how that works......

    Obviously my condolences to his family. They did nothing to deserve the loss of a family member. But for the rest of us, he's not worth continuing to talk about. Move on.

    Thread closed.

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