How many whistleblowers are found dead?

Such a list will never exist, and here’s why:

I’ve been a whistleblower for about 5 years now, and still haven’t fixed anything – hell, Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, there are few whistleblowers you’ve ever heard of, and the atrocities they uncovered still happen all the time.

If you and I were in a business together and I decided to turn on you, you could have me killed to save your livelihood, and who would ever find out?

How would I be categorized as a whistleblower? Who’s tracking us?

It’s easy to count how many soldiers die in a war because there’s piles of paperwork, and everyone’s registered with a number and we all agree who’s a soldier vs a civilian, but Obama has us still debating whether Chelsea Manning or Edward Snowden are traitors or whistleblowers.

We can’t even pin down what a whistleblower is or how they’re truly changing anything except by telling the truth. We can’t even track living ones, much less form a comprehensive list of the untold millions who died before having the chance to ever earn the title.

So no…there is no comprehensive list of even how to be a whistleblower or who is and isn’t one anywhere, and even Whistleblower(dot)org Protecting Whistleblowers since 1977 couldn’t tell you any firm numbers of anything because they’re buried in work fighting a losing battle.