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MIT does not cover the, up, to my knowledge. Quite the opposite.

The only one I knew personally died for reasons unrelated to the Instititute— in fact it was one of his bright spots in some ways (though he suffered dreadfully from the imposter syndrome as well so in other ways it made things worse).

However MIT can be a very difficult place and I don’t want to gloss over that. And I think the institute could do a lot to improve things.

Web search for obits. If someone dies young and the reason isn't clearly stated, it's suicide.

Or overdose.

I suppose I can't say for sure but I remember plenty of them in the school newspaper, at least a few a year usually. Sometimes the reason was easy to deduce, sometimes it was ambiguous as is often the case in possible suicides.