Dr. Kelly: Suicide by hanging out to dry(?)

The Death of Dr. Kelly by James Ridgeway

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0336/mondo1.php

It seems pretty certain that Dr. David Kelly killed himself in despair and confusion over his government's muddled scheme to justify the invasion of Iraq. One person after another appearing before the official Hutton inquiry in London has said that this decent, internationally respected scientist was driven to kill himself because he had raised the mildest possible questions about Prime Minister Tony Blair's war brief. Blair's claims, to which the Bush government regularly referred as if they were incontestable facts, have been exposed as a collection of twisted factoids, including among other things information culled from Jane's Defence Weekly and an ancient grad school thesis.
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Indeed, in his appearance last Thursday, Blair himself airily admitted to have been part of the planning process that outed Kelly, claiming that the scientist—far from being stressed and tired from, among other things, the way this controversy was affecting his ill wife—was "anything other than someone of a certain robustness who was used to dealing with the interchange between politics and the media."

In fact, Kelly's officemate reported that the scientist talked of being "tired" after his grilling before a Parliament committee, adding, "He basically said he was holding up OK but it had all come to a head and his wife had taken it really very badly."
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what to do you think?

it's a sad story, but it's just one of many thousands, considering the massive casualties of the Iraq invasion.

that Kelly kiled himself by his own free choice.
Pressure? This man worked on a high level; weapons inspector in Iraq, military advisor. I can't imagine he didn't realize his name would be made public at some time.
And he killed himself because he couldn't handle the pressure of his name being made public? Not very likely.
And way to convenient for Blair.

How about a bit of coercion: "if you don't kill yourself we'll get to your wife and kids".
What are the chances of the investigation of his death being rigged?

No this is not proof of his assasination. I say there is much ground for suspicion.

Depression is a chemical syndrome. He had it. He killed himself like a coward, rather own up to the mess his indescreationary lies caused for Blair et. al..

Yeah , that's the friggin ticket... sure...

The obvious detail should be the fact that there really is no motive presented for telling the BBC what he told them... Why would this guy have lied, as is claimed by the Blair camp? WHY?!? Give me a plausible excuse to believe in!