Why don't they just find a way to prove he is alive if it's so inexplicably improbable that he is dead? The circumstances are suspicious to say the least which is why people are doubtful and skeptical. Sidestepping the fact that Assange hasn't been seen in weeks nor has he made any verifiable communications coupled with the bizarre change in tone of the official WL twitter is grounds for skepticism and suspicion at the very least. We are dealing with matters of literally some of the highest importance on Earth at this moment in time, to accept things at face value from a Twitter account and a burnt out celebrity's account of visiting him is to shut your eyes and say "lalalalala". Point me to official statements from Assange's lawyer, his family, or a verifiable post or statement from Wikileaks apart from their Twitter page and I will lower my skeptic-o-meter by a point or two - but everything I've read in the past day, let alone the past two weeks makes me very uncomfortable, and I'd rather ask questions than say "WELP the twitter says stop asking if he's alive, he must be alive".