It's part of the system of things. Your system.
"Dark disappearances: How Saudi critics keep going missing" is the head on a related BBC story.
China arrests many on charges of corruption. Good thing; the country's businessmen are known to take and give bribes. [That's how earthquakes do so much damage to schools and other local government buildings, and so little to government officials' residences in the same area.] BBC notes that many of them turn up dead even before trial; suicides, says Beijing. Lots of suicides.
"Meng Hongwei: Former Interpol chief's wife 'not sure he's alive'"
"China's top representative governing the Chinese territory of Macau has died after falling from a tall building ... However, hundreds of mid-level Chinese officials who had been accused of graft have died in recent years - reportedly by killing themselves, though observers have questioned these accounts."
Can't make an omelet without breaking legs.