I don’t know much about crypto, but how does the fact that he had a digital wallet full of it suggest blackmail? If it was blackmail, he hasn’t paid it. And, actually, why would you pay it and kill yourself? Did he think about paying it and change his mind?
That’s one perspective. It’s also possible to see it as life in depth. How much better do we know the people we’ve known all our lives, the community, the neighbourhood, the history, to see a tree grow from a sapling to the tallest around, to see buildings go up and come down, to be connected to it all.
The only time this happened to me – water overflowing the machine – was when I turned a dial for wash size and it didn’t click into place, so the machine didn’t get the signal that it was full enough. Fortunately, that machine was in an outhouse. There was another time, my first use of a washing machine away from home, when I put in way too much detergent and an amazing amount of suds spilled onto the kitchen floor.
I believe he barked at a squirrel fairly recently.