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Damn this sounds like an extremely unhealthy environment in general.

I experienced burnout before but dying because of work sounds very extreme.

"I had a friend who went into management. He died!" "Dad, are all of your friends dead?"

OP makes some big assumptions that is was because of work and not many reasons (even if work was one of them).

Yeah that’s what I was thinking, if he is sure that work was the main driver then it sure must be horrible. That said, I trusted them since I am out of the loop.

We don't have enough information to know whether or not OP is making assumptions, and therefore would be wrong to assume so.

OP could have been friends with or a friend of a friend or could have hardly met the coworker. We don't know.

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