Credit crunch banker leaps to his death in front of express train - another, sad, sign of similarity

[JohnWxy]

to depression (or pre-depression - 1929) days:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1063356/Credit-crunch-banker-leaps-death-express-train.html

[ogneopasno]

1. Peeps, if you're going to commit suicide, please don't mess up other people too. Not just your fams,

but the train workers and bus drivers, too.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Preference of death over being poor.

That's beyond words.

[pitohui]

5. no he STILL had hundreds of millions of pounds, he was not poor (read the linnk)

it sounds to me like a mental health issue such as uncontrolled clinical depression

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Oh no :^(

[NJPuggle]

4. I believe in karma...

I would not want to be George Bush and carry the karma for all the human lives he's impacted for the worse or ruined.

I've been there, and I've been tempted many times this past 8 years, but I held on, and things are getting better. I wish someone had been there for this man; I wish I could have stepped off the Tube, seen him, and just put my hand on his shoulder, looked him in the eye and softly said, "Hang on. Something good's going to happen to you five days from now at 5:00." As someone once suicidal, I can attest that human curiosity after being told something like that makes you hesitate harming yourself - just to see, to make sure. And without doubt, in 24 to 72 hours, some minor positive thing shifts and you can hang on another few days or months. Then nothing happens on the fifth day, you forgot the person told you, and you're moving on with your life, alive.

This is just sad. Poor man.

[mnhtnbb]

6. How sad. Condolences to his family and the engineer, observers.

Must have been a guy who believed money was everything.