Credit Crunch suicide page

buttmunch · January 29th, 2009, 09:20 PM

Yeah, morbid but there are more and more of these stories every day. Here's the latest:

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A MARRIED corporate lawyer specialising in redundancies and employment matters has been found hanged in his office in a suspected suicide.

Henryk Santocki, 37, was discovered by colleagues at CKFT Solicitors in Hampstead, in the early hours of 9 January, after he had been working late.

The senior associate, also called Scott, is thought to have been suffering from stress.

His colleagues today paid tribute to the "dedicated" professional, who joined the company last September. Graham Kaye, a partner at CKFT, said: "Although Scott was only with us for a short time all the staff have been deeply affected by his death. Our thoughts are with his wife and family."

An inquest is due to be held at St Pancras coroner's court.

The death comes after another corporate lawyer is believed to have killed herself because of pressure at work.

The body of Catherine Bailey, who had three daughters, was pulled from near Richmond Bridge on 10 January. Ms Bailey, 41, who worked for SJ Berwin in the City, had told her hospital consultant husband she felt under stress.Redundancies lawyer is found hanged in office | News

KrisNine · January 30th, 2009, 01:04 AM

We are going to be seeing more and more of this.

buttmunch · January 30th, 2009, 03:21 AM

Hence the page. Let's just post them all here and once the dust settles check the body count.

twitchy2.0 · January 30th, 2009, 07:10 AM

Another:

MyFox Washington DC | Police Blame Murder-Suicide on Financial Problems

Annapolis, Maryland. Death toll:2

Sweetie · January 30th, 2009, 08:51 AM

IDIOTS!
Do these people think they can only get one job?

Seriously people, you can find a job eventually, even if it's digging ditches. It's not worth blowing your brains out.

crumpet · January 30th, 2009, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Sweetie

IDIOTS!
Do these people think they can only get one job?

Seriously people, you can find a job eventually, even if it's digging ditches. It's not worth blowing your brains out.

It goes back to what was said on another thread about how today's people cannot hack what our Depression era anscestors wouldn't have even blinked an eye at.

Whatever happens to me in life that I cannot control (such as the economy) I'm just going to make it the best I can. I built myself up and I still have the tools to do it again if need be. If I had to go live in a campground I'd try to turn it into some type of adventure or Jack Keroac (sp?) experience. I'd see what I could learn from it and hold tight to the things that matter most: my family, friends, and pets. You know, living creatures and not just 'things' I've accumulated over the years (and I'm a girl who loves my pretty things). Life gets hard sometimes. People are just figuring this out?

Notice it's all these middle class types doing this and not poor people?

MohandasKGanja · January 30th, 2009, 09:30 AM

I am seeing a lack of emotional fortitude right now.

Hummus · January 30th, 2009, 10:25 AM

We think that money and our jobs are the only thing in life that are important. You have to have money to be happy, you have to have good credit to be happy. You aren't successful if you don't have a good career or a nice house, wtf ever!

I will not teach my kids that chasing paper all their life is going to bring them happiness.

Corsair · January 30th, 2009, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Hummus

We think that money and our jobs are the only thing in life that are important. You have to have money to be happy, you have to have good credit to be happy. You aren't successful if you don't have a good career or a nice house, wtf ever!

I will not teach my kids that chasing paper all their life is going to bring them happiness.

Definitely we are a material society, it's sad because so many people don't see or accept that it's just stuff.

It goes back to what was said on another thread about how today's people cannot hack what our Depression era ancestors wouldn't have even blinked an eye at.

That about sums it up.

ana-mish-ana · January 30th, 2009, 01:43 PM

I dont get it - there are much much worse things that can happen. Like getting Terminal cancer, being in a wartorn country and being bombed daily. Yes losing your job and house is terrible but to kill yourself and family because of it is fucking insane and selfish.

cynic · January 30th, 2009, 01:47 PM

...there was no such thing as credit cards in the Depression...the only thing people "charged" was food they couldn't pay for.....most women didn't work....they didn't have birth control.....most folks didn't have cars, nor did they take vacations, etc., etc., etc......you really can't compare then and now.....

MohandasKGanja · January 30th, 2009, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by cynic

...there was no such thing as credit cards in the Depression...the only thing people "charged" was food they couldn't pay for.....most women didn't work....they didn't have birth control.....most folks didn't have cars, nor did they take vacations, etc., etc., etc......you really can't compare then and now.....

There was much more upheaval and uncertainty in daily life back then. People have it so good, now, that anything that jolts your lifestyle is something that you are emotionally unprepared for. I'm guilty of being that way, too.

cynic · January 30th, 2009, 02:55 PM

...yeah, my Dad had to leave home at 14 and hit the highways as a hobo because his family didn't have enough for shoes and food...they couldn't have afforded the gun, nor the bullets nor a rope to commit suicide.....

.....it was a luxury to attend school past the sixth grade....

...and there were lots and lots of suicides during the Depression...people don't change....only their lifestyles.....

sluce · January 30th, 2009, 04:02 PM

Right now suicide in the militray are surpassing suicides of regular civilians and those folks have guaranteed income.

Penny Lane · January 30th, 2009, 06:47 PM

Not to sound insincere or cold, but these people are a spineless lot... I doubt any of us were alive during the Great Depression but those were some hard times. Not to belittle our current financial climate, but if these people think things are so bad that suicide is the only alternative then I think we better strap ourselves in for an onslaught of senseless self inflicted deaths.