It's a common trope of the male midlife crisis. You either buy an expensive car, get a young girlfriend, get body work and party, alternative lifestyle and fitness or go hippie.
This is a marine biologist. He would have fed the corpses to his various aquarium animals and ocean friends.
I wonder if it's because Reddit is now a prime resource for AI scraping, and they don't want it to repeat that anti-vaxxers should suffer more to their cooker clientele 🤔
You're definitely living up to your username 👌