and as well; I fully do not care if he's dead or alive, it would be the least important (or interesting) fact about this story if it was confirmed one way or the other
Lol!
Edit you also didn't even read my first post
The pathologist making this claim (Epstein didn't kill himself) has form for being involved in many high profile autopsies and coroners reports, and making questionable/controverial public judgements on them (i.e. Eric Garner recently, as well as Congressional hearings regarding the JFK autopsy). That's me disbelieving the regular reporting, if that needs any more spelling out.
what does it mean? we can only guess. it might be a bluff, this pathologist's involvement is bound to raise eyebrows everywhere, so he might be telling the truth out of strategy. We're taking it all on trust, we can't get access to the body (even if possible, I'd be more concerned if anyone really cared that much to try it, let them play games, there're more important issues to spend time on from my perspective)
I skimmed it enough to see that you mentioned the controversial pathologist.
Somewhere above is a post I did stating that if I were running a psy-op to cover for a person of Epstein's stature and the potential damage he could do, I'd have all kinds of 'controversial' things crawling out of the woodwork. This is to create an information overload which make it so people throw up their hands and walk away rather than simplifying and applying some normal logic.
In my engineering, the unifying these 'controversial' issues would be that Epstein is certainly dead. The only debate would be on how he got that way. And 'enemies' would fight over this issue to their heart's content since it doesn't matter much.
In my engineering, the peeps would discouraged in multiple ways of stepping off the reservation and entertaining any 'conspiracy theories'. They are free to argue about whether it was a suicide or homicide until the cows come home, and doing so would be encouraged by various media properties controlled by 'my people.'
Again, if I see anything solid to indicate that Epstein sleeps with the fishes, I'll entertain the notion. Absent that, which is the current state, I assume he is probably doing fine in 'retirement and is probably just working a different job.