Oh no! :(
He was a frequent Redditor and participated in discussions with great comments and even their Secret Santa. He’ll be missed. It looks like the cause was suicide.
I read the suicide thing and after listening to a couple of other people talk about it, I never realized Verne had problems with alcohol either. (I blame never watching The Surreal Life.)
Sad to hear the news just the same. Suicide is always tragic.