Jeffrey Epstein: Dead or Just Resting?

The suicide of Jeffrey Epstein has, so the mainstream media reports, launched a thousand conspiracy theories. According to the media, the burning question for conspiracy theorists is whether Epstein was murdered or, though supposedly on "suicide watch," allowed to kill himself.

And a perfunctory survey seems to confirm that much of the blogsphere takes this to be the critical question. Thus, for example, Michael Snyder at the End of the American Dream writes:

Did Jeffrey Epstein commit suicide or was he murdered? This is a question that is being debated by millions of Americans right now. ...

Or this from the normally astute James Howard Kunstler:

Did Jeffrey Epstein commit suicide or was he murdered? ...

Jeffrey Epstein leaving gaol: dead or just resting  — under the 
influence of a paralysing drug, perhaps? Image source.

But while every conspiracy theory alluded to by the media assumes that Epstein is, indeed, dead, any conspiracy theorist worthy of the name has to question that central premise of the official story.

In 2008, when charged with trafficking minors for sex, Epstein's lawyers negotiated a sweetheart plea agreement with US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alexander Acosta. Acosta has since explained that he settled for the deal because he had been warned that Epstein "belonged to intelligence."

So now we are to believe that "intelligence" left Epstein to kill himself  or be murdered in a maximum security gaol?

Suuuure.  Or could Jeff, even now, be discussing a facial makeover with a plastic surgeon prior to a new life in Paraguay, perhaps, or maybe Israel?

Related:
Charles Hugh Smith: The Internal War in the Deep State Claims Its High Profile Casualty: Jeffrey Epstein
Zero Hedge: Epstein's Autopsy Results Delayed "Pending Further Information"
New York Post: Former MCC inmate: There’s ‘no way’ Jeffrey Epstein killed himself
Bill Still: Insider Claims Epstein Was Switched Out