A moment of silence

[peelingchrome]

http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/22/news/Fredd...sion=2009042211

Causes? Effects? Implications?

[Onyx]

ack - just had to edit, didn't click the link before I posted.

Edited April 24, 2009 by Onyx

[Enishi]

At this point in time we can only speculate.

I wonder myself if the bankers and other elites aren't going to be able to just get away with golden parachutes like they probably planned.

[Onyx]

ah, shouldn't post before I click, didn't realize it was that fella's suicide.

I can't say I know the whole story, but have to wonder if there's not even more he was hiding. hmm... Shocking but sad that he couldn't deal.

[peelingchrome]

I'll agree that things look like he was hiding something or just felt really bad about a lot of things. Maybe this is totally unrelated to work. Maybe his SigOther was cheating on him or something. And (just to steal some loony thunder) maybe this was a plot by those who are mad about the bailouts and are trying to frame someone.

I dunno, anything's possible at this point. I like what-ifs, though - they keep the mind sharp. No fantasy is ever as strange as reality, so I see it as a good mental workout.

Any other ideas?

[prick]

He may have been secretly diagnosed with terminal cancer or something.

[Onyx]

And (just to steal some loony thunder) maybe this was a plot by those who are mad about the bailouts and are trying to frame someone.

Actually that thought did cross my mind.

[prick]

Also a chance that he snapped without any connection to his position. It does happen without any known reason.

[Scales]

Very sad. If it was a suicide it immediately seems a case of an egocentric identity crisis. Some people lose themselves when they lose their "success." That's a guess.

[TitsMcGee]

Coming from someone who has lost two people to suicide, I feel horrible for this man's family. All anyone can really do is speculate on the reasons he had though, unless he left them in a note. There could be any number of reasons. I just hope it wasn't a family member that found him.

[Onyx]

Very sad. If it was a suicide it immediately seems a case of an egocentric identity crisis. Some people lose themselves when they lose their "success." That's a guess.

Very well put. (would have taken me a huge paragraph and still wouldn't have been that clear).

Power and money sometimes end up a curse when one doesn't realize a person's life encompasses more than all that and are just as valuable as a person without them.

[ttogreh]

He was from Bay City. I guess the most logical answer is that he couldn't face the work any more, but didn't know how to say that to anyone.

He had a five year old daughter.

[peelingchrome]

He was from Bay City. He had a five year old daughter.

Thanks for the heads-up, I knew next-to-nothing about him.

[Homicidalheathen]

All I know is, when this story came out a few days ago...I thought Freddie Mac was a rapper.

Never pictured some ol white guy with money being called Freddie mac.

[TitsMcGee]

All I know is, when this story came out a few days ago...I thought Freddie Mac was a rapper.

Never pictured some ol white guy with money being called Freddie mac.

Freddie Mac is a financial institution on Wall Street.

[ttogreh]

It is federally owned nowadays. It sells mortgages.

[Scales]

Very well put. (would have taken me a huge paragraph and still wouldn't have been that clear).

Power and money sometimes end up a curse when one doesn't realize a person's life encompasses more than all that and are just as valuable as a person without them.

Thank ya.