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Just like that Boeing whistleblower who committed suicide after taking a lot of effort to travel to and prepare himself to testify against them. People just tend to feel the most depressed after they make plans to take down (other) powerful people.
The Boeing guy was a very different situation.
It's annoying that people refuse to actually look at details, and just assume shit.
John Barnett had been a whistleblower, seven years before he died. He just wanted safe planes, and he reported safety violations and such multiple times.
He filed complaints with the FAA and the FAA acted on the reports. This cost Boeing a lot of money and they fired Barnett, but to be jackasses they did it in such a way as to make it look like a voluntary retirement. And then Boeing managers went around to every other place that Barnett could work, and told them not to hire him.
That was what the lawsuit was over, and it was going badly. Barnett lost the first round of the wrongful termination lawsuit, and then the second. He was on his final appeal and from all accounts it did not go well in the courtroom the day before his death.
When you fight a losing fight like that, and lose again and again, it wears on you.
So yes, John Barnett took his own life.