'Bio­hack­er' Tray­wick ac­ci­den­tal­ly drowned, of­fi­cial con­firms

Two months af­ter his wide­ly re­port­ed death at age 28, bio­hack­er Aaron Tray­wick was found to have ac­ci­den­tal­ly drowned in the floata­tion tank he was us­ing, and the drug ke­t­a­mine was in his sys­tem.

The Of­fice of the Chief Med­ical Ex­am­in­er in Wash­ing­ton, DC, where Tray­wick’s body was dis­cov­ered on April 29, con­firmed to End­points News that the death, an ac­ci­dent, was caused by “as­phyx­ia due to drown­ing with ke­t­a­mine in­tox­i­ca­tion,” af­ter we fol­lowed up on a Bloomberg sto­ry cit­ing an au­top­sy re­port. A floata­tion tank is a sound­proof pod filled with body-tem­per­a­ture salt­wa­ter meant to pro­mote “sen­so­ry de­pri­va­tion” and “deep re­lax­ation,” while ke­t­a­mine is a pow­er­ful anes­thet­ic of­ten abused as a par­ty drug.

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