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This theory is probably discounted by the long, carefully written suicide note that was found..

We need to hold off till the evidence is in. The author does have a point in criticizing the apparently contradictory official release. But if there was a (not ripped into an uneven number of pieces at the bottom of a briefcase without any fingerprints on it) suicide note and the episodes of depression were for real. If the gun (and don't tell me girls NEVER shoot themselves, she clearly was not fooling around) was not being held in an unusual way, etc. etc. then it would look pretty open and shut. Even insinuating racial crap on the part of the authorities in the Bay Area sounds ludicrous.

IMO, It probably was the shame of having her children taken away from her while she got treatment for her severe depression.

Best guess. Just such a shocking case, prayers for her family..

Iris Chang had been diagnosed and was being treated for clinical depression prior to her death. She recently returned from a cross country trip to conduct research for her next book on the Bataan Death March . During this trip she was hospitalized and treated for depression. Given these circumstances and the effect that antidepressant drugs can have on some personalities, it is not hard to conclude her death was a suicide.