I don't. How do you know she isn't? Until I have evidence to the contrary I tend to believe what people say.

"How do you know she isn't?"

I questioned what you said I didn't (when I asked you) state that the poster wasn't his mother. I don't know that she is or isn't.

That said I will now say that I feel that it's highly unlikely that a mother who has lost her son to suicide is going to open up a HN account [1] and post something when a loss like this happens.

Of course if a HN admin has access to IP addresses or where and how the account was setup or some other non public information that's something else.

[1] Adding: so quickly after the loss

I hope you can restrain yourself and that you won't be asking for their passports and birth certificates:

http://rememberaaronsw.tumblr.com/post/40372208044/official-...

He worked on Reddit, which is very similar to HN. It's not that unlikely.