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  TOtheMOON1 year, 4 months ago

  "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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    angelfal21 year, 4 months ago

    EXACTLY what I was thinking!

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      Teech1 year, 4 months ago

      Someone bent on suicide is usually not thinking of their impact on the lives of others. Too bad those who contemplate it don't take the time to discuss it with family members who have had to live with the aftermath.

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        jumpmaster1 year, 4 months ago

        How about the impact that he makes on the people on the sidewalk?

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  TomBiro1 year, 4 months ago

  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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  Hawklead1 year, 4 months ago

  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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    TOtheMOON1 year, 4 months ago

    It amazes me that no one was hurt. I have no clue about the layout of the area there. Couldn't there have been people 'down below'? You're not just taking out yourself - you're taking a few with you. That's horrifying.

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      TomBiro1 year, 4 months ago

      Absolutely. There's a few restaurants right downstairs (I just saw a picture of a covered-up remains section in front of one) and it's a highly-trafficked area for peds.

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      OnlyTheTruth1 year, 4 months ago

      You raise a good point. If a person wants to kill himself so be it. Just don't take anyone with you. Jump off a bridge over the east River if you must.

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        pacificmist1 year, 4 months ago

        There are better ways to kill yourself that is for sure. Jumping off the Empire State Building would give you way to much time to think about it and no way to change your mind. If I ever got to that point I do believe a gun to the head would be in order.

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  PsychoHosebeast1 year, 4 months ago

  Even at the expense of looking like a moron...

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  TomBiro1 year, 4 months ago

  CBS 2 in NYC is reporting that the man was an attorney. http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_103153...

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    ghengisghan1 year, 4 months ago

    OK, I'll say it.....A GOOD START :)

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    TOtheMOON1 year, 4 months ago

    TMI Can you just imagine walking along and finding body parts!

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      joeblowe1 year, 4 months ago

      Well, if they were the right size you could keep them for spares...

      WAIT! It was a damn lawyer. Never mind - who'd want them.

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      joeblowe1 year, 4 months ago

      Wait a minute... violated WHAT Term of Service exactly? Offending someone's tender sensibilities? What a total load of /censored/ Since when are lawyer jokes - no matter how crude - not permissible in ANY circumstances?

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        PsychoHosebeast1 year, 4 months ago

        grow up.

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        ADAGUY1 year, 4 months ago

        See, nobody wants to hear what you have to say! And you thought it was just me!

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        spiralthrough1 year, 4 months ago

        You're whining about being censored on a thread about a guy who just commited suicide. Shows where your priorities are I guess...

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          pacificmist1 year, 4 months ago

          Maybe the people who are whining about being censored have never had someone close to them commit suicide and been left to wonder if there was something they could have done of some little thing they missed that would have told them is was going to happen. Been there and I still wonder to this day if I missed the sign and could have done something to stop it.

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  lakeside551 year, 4 months ago

  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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    Worldview1 year, 4 months ago

    that's really awful . . . .

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    kiki57111 year, 4 months ago

    lakeside55

    Why are you so depressed?

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  rockman0691 year, 4 months ago

  Truly sad, and too graphic.

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  Bluevirage1 year, 4 months ago

  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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  Cruzsurfer1 year, 4 months ago

  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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  xtaylor0022x1 year, 4 months ago

  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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  KSUmarksman1 year, 4 months ago

  I guess the warning means that I should not recite parts of the paratrooper song "blood upon the risers"...

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    jumpmaster1 year, 4 months ago

    Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die.......

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  joeblowe1 year, 4 months ago

  " 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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    PsychoHosebeast1 year, 4 months ago

    Gee, the first thing I thought when I read this was "what and imbecile," but I see you already spewed you're puke here once and I mentioned to grow up, so anything constructive is probably lost on your pea brain. It seems like you're the only person having problems here, bubba.

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    ADAGUY1 year, 4 months ago

    five says he will be back before a week is up!

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  Worldview1 year, 4 months ago

  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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    Alexia1 year, 4 months ago

    When suicide is the subject. That's what's an exception.

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      Worldview1 year, 4 months ago

      You mean murder, aka suicide, an unlawful homicide wherein the murderer and the murdered are one in the same?

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        spiralthrough1 year, 4 months ago

        My sister's best friend and her fiance were killed in their sleep in a murder-suicide, by her fiance's step-dad.

        Of course we sympathize primarily with the innocent victims, but the whole ordeal is tragic, each life and each death. Personally I'd prefer reading a tasteless comment which is based on rage rather than jocularity. At least then I'd know that the commenter experiences emotion, and has a heart. These people making jokes in this kind of situationand to whom nothing is sacred, in my mind, are some of the lowest people on Earth. If they do it to make themselves feel better-which I doubt-they should keep it to themselves, which according to them is likely too much to ask, or illogical, or unreasonable or whatever...

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          philbutler1 year, 3 months ago

          And just such insensitivity may have contributed to this poor person's torture and state of mind. We all have a duality of mind and spirit. Half of me wants to describe a rather hilarious rendition of my own concocted demise is it ever comes time to "kiss the baby", but the overriding compassion I feel for hurt people in general belays my way of dealing with tragedy.

          I think Alexia is trying to prod everyone into edging toward our good nature and respectful acknowledgment of this poor person's demise obviously. The point about demarcation from general apathy, cynicism, crudeness, anger, poor manners in general and our society's abundant disrespect for nearly everything is well taken however. A thousand people die much more horrid deaths than this poor man every day and for less cause. Still life pushing us past the point of living is the saddest thing of all. :o(

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  coreyspring1 year, 4 months ago

  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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    capn_caveman1 year, 4 months ago

    I'm sure they all do, but in the case of a very determined person... well, I'm sure someone could find a way.

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    TomBiro1 year, 4 months ago

    I'm not sure how you could *really* stop, sans going with bulletproof windows everywhere, anyone from finding a way to bash open a window and jump, really.

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    rockman0691 year, 4 months ago

    I think that suicide is the only activity if done properly does not allow a second chance. Ironic, but true.

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  PoliSci1 year, 4 months ago

  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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  splitrch1 year, 4 months ago

  I wonder if he changed his mind on the way down.... A bit late for 2nd thoughts.

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    Worldview1 year, 4 months ago

    I've read an account of a guy who attempted suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. He stated that as soon as he started falling, he reached back trying to grab the bridge. The lucky SOB survived and lived to talk about it.

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      splitrch1 year, 4 months ago

      I heard the same story. He is one luck s.o.b.

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  1basque11 year, 4 months ago

  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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  buddyb1 year, 4 months ago

  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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  Methysmenos1 year, 4 months ago

  "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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  TweekerchickQC1 year, 4 months ago

  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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    Worldview1 year, 4 months ago

    ditto . . .

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    spiralthrough1 year, 4 months ago

    That's true in a lot of cases, but not every problem is temporary, and some people have problems which challenge their very existence-not a good place to be...

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  canadianrancher571 year, 4 months ago

  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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    TweekerchickQC1 year, 4 months ago

    Sadly, depression in men goes untreated far more than it does with women, most likely due to the stigma attached to seeking treatment.

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  EsaEngr1 year, 4 months ago

  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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    spiralthrough1 year, 4 months ago

    '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?'

    We're posting on THEIR forum. According to our free speech rights the government is the only body which can't censor us. Message boards, magazines, newspapers, TV shows, etc are free to censor who they like.

    '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?'

    Although I disagree with them, I wonder too...

    'I am old enough to overlook what is bothersome to me.'

    I went through a phase where I felt that way too, but now I think we should be bothered-it's a catalyst for action and change.

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  UBCONFUSE1 year, 4 months ago

  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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  themanmulcahey1 year, 4 months ago

  you gonna tell us about the birds that got to him before police did to pick up the "parts"?

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  aceofspades11 year, 4 months ago

  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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