Dr. Nikita Levy

In 2013, Dr. Nikita Levy, an OBGYN, was fired from his practice with Johns Hopkins Medical Center after a co-worker alerted authorities about a pen-like camera he wore. 

He killed himself two weeks later, after which federal investigators found about 1,200 videos and 140 images llicitly taken of his vulnerable patients on his home computers.  

"Like others who knew the 54-year-old Levy, [patient Fanya] O'Donoghue said it was hard to reconcile the warm and caring physician she knew as the same person now alleged to have violated his patients' trust and privacy.... Even as she dreads every phone call now, thinking it could be police telling her she was identified in a photograph by Levy, O'Donoghue remembers how much "respect and friendship" she felt from him." -Baltimore Sun, Feb 23, 2013   

Though a smaller story that didn't reach much beyond state news, Levy's passing in the midst of his story breaking stands out in my mind. I was young, and the local news ran stories detailing the revolution of Levy's legacy. In the days after, his victims, his family, his colleagues, and his friends had to square the man they thought they knew with one being revealed in the subsequent investigation. 

My mind wanders... What is the true self? Does death reveal the true self? Or obscure it?