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Posted by: TomBiro 2 years, 8 months agoAn unidentified person - supposedly male - has jumped from the Empire State Building's 69th floor, landing on the 30th floor and on the ground outside the structure.
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TOtheMOON
April 13, 2007, 3:59 p.m."The jumper's body landed primarily on the 30th floor landing of the historic skyscraper, but parts landed on the street below."
Did we need to know this??
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TomBiro
April 13, 2007, 4:02 p.m.Good question, TOtheMOON.
A colleague of mine who works in the building works near someone who saw the person fly by their window, and went downstairs to street level and saw what was left hidden under a sheet blocked off by some police. Not good.
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Hawklead
April 13, 2007, 4:02 p.m.This nut dosent need press. Just dig a hole and kick whats left in.
Suicide is without a doubt the grandest expression of selfishness there is
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TomBiro
April 13, 2007, 4:24 p.m.CBS 2 in NYC is reporting that the man was an attorney. http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_103153...
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lakeside55
April 13, 2007, 4:45 p.m.Hawklead - you are totally insensitive and have no empathy. I guess your life has been so good that you have never felt true deep despair or hopelessness.
Suicide is no laughing matter. I've been very near that edge myself more times than is good to admit to. I have extreme depression that so far doesn't respond to anti-depressants. Also the pain I was in for 4 years was so bad that I would lay there wishing I was dead. In between screaming for 3 days straight I begged family members to please kill me. Even morphine didn't help.
Have a happy life folks.
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Bluevirage
April 13, 2007, 5:09 p.m.Ugh, what a way to go, ah man that is rough. I pray that he found the peace he sought via such public and gross means.
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Cruzsurfer
April 13, 2007, 5:09 p.m.Hawklead dosen't sound to insensitive to me, i would hope that anyone so depressed that they take theyre own life would not want to hurt others in the process
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xtaylor0022x
April 13, 2007, 5:12 p.m.lakeside-i also suffer from depression, and i know exactly where you're coming from when you say that you would lay there and wish to die. i can't see the comments that hawklead left, because netscape already blocked them. this is terrible, and i hope that this mans' family can overcome the pain of this tragedy in the most "possible" way.
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KSUmarksman
April 13, 2007, 5:26 p.m.I guess the warning means that I should not recite parts of the paratrooper song "blood upon the risers"...
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joeblowe
April 13, 2007, 5:33 p.m." WARNING! Ladies & gentlemen, suicide is no laughing matter. Refrain from making disrespectful comments or you will be banned from the system."
Not a laughing matter in WHOSE opinion exactly - and under what circumstances? I'm personally very offended that an editor on a public comment board would take such a draconian position with respect to OTHER PEOPLE'S sense of what's right or wrong, or appropriate or not.
Never mind YOU banning ME! I am banning YOU for a period of 1 week. And then I will reconsider. Good-Bye.
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Worldview
April 13, 2007, 5:55 p.m.Actaully, that's a very good point. . . is there a list of "disrespectful comments" that are more appropriate than others? Just take a look at some of the vulgarity written over the past few days re Imus and the Duke case. So, what are the exceptible "disrespectful comments?"
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coreyspring
April 13, 2007, 6:39 p.m.Isn't the building supposed to have safeguards to prevent this sort of thing from happening like the WTC did? I thought that was a common feature of many skyscrapers
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PoliSci
April 13, 2007, 7:12 p.m.Very sad that this individual deemed it necessary to end his life in such a manner/ or at all. I've thought about it myself, but my thoughts of family have prevented that so far.......
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splitrch
April 13, 2007, 7:29 p.m.I wonder if he changed his mind on the way down.... A bit late for 2nd thoughts.
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1basque1
April 13, 2007, 8:06 p.m.A lawyer in his 30's !!! How sad to think that his life was not worth living at such a young age...
My sympathy for his family...You know that they are devastated ...
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buddyb
April 13, 2007, 8:26 p.m.It's a sad day when a person's pain becomes stronger than their will to live. Perhaps all of us posting here should count our blessings and be thankful for the things that bring us peace.
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Methysmenos
April 13, 2007, 8:41 p.m."When suicide is the subject. That's what's an exception."
So Alexia, what gives with the, "Its my post, be nice or I'll ban you"?
People aren't allowed to express their opinions on suicide if they happen to not agree with what you consider respectful.
Don't post any more stories and you won't have to worry about it. You must be a control freak in real life.
Heres my take on it.
In his selfishnous, he could have killed another human being below. This particular person was obviously a waste of skin.
I glad no one else died, I could care less that he did.
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TweekerchickQC
April 13, 2007, 8:37 p.m.I just...wow.
My mom puts it nicely.
Suicide is a very permanant solution to a very temporary problem.
I just cant ever imagine it getting that bad.
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canadianrancher57
April 13, 2007, 11:34 p.m.Depression is a disease that is to oftrn ignored by doctors, many people who suffer with it think of suicide and also homicide. Would we think of this story a laughing matter if this person had taken the lives of others, in this case it might have been seen as a tradgety. It is easy to laugh and make jokes about suicide but many people who commit it are not ignorant loosers, they are people who could't or would't get help.
My sympathies go out to all who knew this person, for only they know what has been lost by this event.
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EsaEngr
April 14, 2007, 12:34 p.m.This 1 story is news worthy how? It must be simply where this person chose to kill himself at? And i find it highly disturbing that Netscape would threaten to ban anyone from the system that does not "Refrain from making disrespectful comments"! Is that not further subjectation of my freedom of speech rights? And exactly where are all the people that spoke volumes on a story earlier where they thought Rosie's free speech right's had been deteriorated? If netscape does not want the possibility of disrespectful comments, then don't post the damn story! Or better yet, allow all of us who might find something interesting to discuss in this story to freely discuss it, and allow us to engage those who post idiotic statements informing them of their stupidity and lack of sensitivity! I am old enough to overlook what is bothersome to me.
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UBCONFUSE
April 14, 2007, 12:52 p.m.Scattering your body parts and fluids during a suicide, as I can see from these comments is about one step more inconsiderate than smoking in a public place.
Additionally, the person may have chosen death over enriching the medical community for the treatment of a life ending illness.
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themanmulcahey
April 14, 2007, 1:28 p.m.you gonna tell us about the birds that got to him before police did to pick up the "parts"?
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aceofspades1
April 14, 2007, 2:15 p.m.After seeing so many thoughtless hateful postings on Netscape - suddenly this subject becomes a cause celebre for censorship? Something's wrong with the priorities here
All I have to say is -----------------------.
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