Economic Suicides Megathread

[runningman]

I thought we should start a mega thread since there will probably be a lot of this happening.

Steven L Good, Illinois real estate mogul

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/07/illinois.realestate.death/index.html

Adolf Merckle, Billionaire investor in Volkswagen(Even Big three guys aren't Jumping)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/06/business/main4702925.shtml

Kirk Stephenson, Olivant

Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, Madoff Scandal

[runningman]

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CFO of Freddie Mac Just a few hours ago. Hung himself.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7399376&page=1

[Miroslav]

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The Economic Suicides would be a good name for a rock band.

[Shpira]

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Google Trends shows a significant increase in the amount of searches for 'how to commit suicide' and a frightening crescendo for 'suicide methods' since the middle of 2008. Both search terms are still getting more popular.

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/46254,features,high-profile-credit-crunch-suicides-are-tip-of-iceberg

[speciale]

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I think the worse suicides from the current economy are the people who don't want to go alone, so they either kill their entire family or go to a public place and take people out before offing themselves. A bit of a shame since they should just kill themselves and let the other people live. It is beyond me to conceive the notion that someone because they failed have to take out their entire family.

[mtguru]

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Unfortunate its not just CEO and CFO that are committing suicide but the rise of family murder suicides that are up also do to tough economic times. This is a rather sad topic to discuss in light because it is sad when people (families) think the only way out is through death and we all been touch my someone who has.

[Kamal]

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I thought the title of the thread was rather insensitive - "Economic Suicide Megathread"

[runningman]

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insensitive?? Get with the times guys. Throw the politically correct shit out the window. The economy is crashing and a lot of people are killing themselves. On a brighter note the sun will come up tomorrow and I will type some more reality on here...

[Miroslav]

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insensitive?? Get with the times guys. Throw the politically correct shit out the window. The economy is crashing and a lot of people are killing themselves. On a brighter note the sun will come up tomorrow and I will type some more reality on here...

You're touching yourself as you write this stuff, aren't you

[Kamal]

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Its not about "getting with the times" or "politically correct shit". Regardless of who did what wrong, people are dying and families are losing their loved ones. It's at this point that money becomes so irrelevant (to me) that I wouldn't wanna start a "megathread" of death and attribute the "bad economy" as an acceptable reason to candidly talk about it.

[runningman]

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I am appalled by some of the comments made lately about me. Let me make this perfectly clear.

I AM NOT A MONSTER!!

So to post that I am some how excited about all this is a crock if shit. But the facts are the facts. This isn't brave new world where I can just take my Soma and forget that good people are killing themselves over the economy. Let me also be clear

THIS IS REALITY!!!!! Not fairy tale land.

So to turn a blind eye and say it is insensitive is bull, save your enthusiasm for the bankers and politicians when the civil unrest becomes out of control. (Oh right I am sooo excited for this)

I think it is insensitive to kick families out of homes. I think it is insensitive to rob the US blind and make the tax payers fell like they have no where to go but death.

Kamal money NEVER becomes irrelevant. Money is what is the driving force behind every decision a human being makes including death.

[runningman]

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Furthermore I have had a half dozen friends commit suicide so don't paint me as someone who doesn't know about suicides. But you have to be free to talk about it in the open to understand it.

[floridaorange]

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I AM NOT A MONSTER!!
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"Methinks thou protesteth too much."

[nsite]

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innocent families, yes that's tragic.

guilty executives who willingly ran their companies into the ground, destroying thousands of lives in the process. fuck em.

[Kamal]

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Kamal money NEVER becomes irrelevant. Money is what is the driving force behind every decision a human being makes including death.

mate I'm not calling you a monster, I just dont think a "death megathread" is apt. You had your opinion and right what to label your thread and what to post in it. I didn't change the label did I? You and everyone on [ms] have the freedom to express what they think and feel in a matter best suited to them.........and I'm here expressing mine.

For me, money IS irrelevant. It's only as important as you MAKE it in your life. I'm from a different background and different culture. While I do recognize the basic importance of money in this world, I do have certain opinions about how important you can let it become for you.

Try explaining capitalism to the poor people who live the world over. They do not have the electronics, gadgets, suburban houses, fancy cars and middle-class lifestyles that the Western World revels in, but you must realize that what you don't know doesn't affect you. And to the millions who live out there, on wages of less than $30/Month, this global meltdown and greed doesn't matter.

And having personally seen lifestyles like that, I have a part of me that accepts and appreciate the lesser importance of money in one's life and the greater importance on a lot of other moral and interpersonal relations that we as humans share. Yes it does seem rather spiritualistic and philosophical, but that IS a way of life for millions on this planet.

I've lost a ton of friends too and I'm not saying you're insensitive about death, just insensitive about how you have chosen to categorize cumulative deaths in a forum whereby the only 2 other "megathreads" that I/we know of are the rocking boobage thread and the nonsense thread.