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'Top Gun' director Tony Scott dead after jumping off bridge
LA Times ^ | 8-19-12

Posted on 08/19/2012 9:45:36 PM PDT by kingattax

"Top Gun" director Tony Scott fatally jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro on Sunday afternoon, according to Los Angeles police sources.

His body was pulled out of the water by Los Angeles Police Department, California Highway Patrol and U.S. Coast Guard officials.

Investigators found a suicide note in his car, which was parked on the bridge.

Law enforcement sources said several witnesses saw Scott, the brother of director Ridley Scott, climb over a fence on the bridge and jump off.

The coroner's office identified him Sunday evening.

Scott was a respected action-movie director who also made "Enemy of the State," "Beverly Hills Cop II" and "Crimson Tide."

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KEYWORDS: braincancer; cancer; greatloss; hollywood; mentalhealth; movies; notbreakingnews; ridleyscott; rip; suicide; tonyscott
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To: Ann Archy
Jesus would have helped him.....if he would have asked. Very sad.....suicied is so selfish.

We do not know that. Often it is not even knowable. People are mortal, which means everyone dies sooner or later. Who among us has the ultimate knowledge of how any given person's life should end? Does anyone on this planet has some sort of a Master Plan to look at? I don't think so.

Doctor: You have an untreatable illness. You are not young; in fact, you lived a full life and made good things. But all good things come to an end. Your choices are: (a) to spend all your money, about a million per month, on the best palliative treatment - and you will be either in pain or asleep all the time. Or (b) - you give your money to someone else, like your children, or a charity, or a complete stranger so that they can do something useful with it. Understand that the money you will spend in (a) will not do you any good - once it ends you die. Also this money will fall under the broken window fallacy, meaning that the money will simply disappear from the society - the labor of hundreds, if not thousands of workers will be wasted because they will not be able to save you anyway. Expensive (hard to make) drugs and irreplaceable time of doctors will be wasted on a hopeless patient instead of helping someone who can be healed.

Will this patient want to sacrifice himself, deprive himself of a few more months in this world, so that he can do the last good deed for his loved ones? Or perhaps he will choose to be selfish (yes, that word again) and spend all his money on keeping his unconscious body alive until the money runs out?

Who is the hero here, where is the sacrifice and where is selfishness, in what scenario?

The trouble with canned solutions is that they are often wrong. Suicide of a warrior before the battle is certainly a shame, and you can say that the warrior is selfish. On the other hand, suicide of a warrior who throws himself onto a live grenade to protect his team is anything but selfish. One judgement does not fit all.

61 posted on 08/20/2012 2:04:30 AM PDT by Greysard
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To: Greysard
How ridiculous!!! The soldier that throws himself on a grenade to save fellow soldiers ISN'T committing Suicide!! He is doing the NOBLEST of deeds, just like Jesus.....they gave up their lives for friends. There is NOTHING better than that.

If a person wants to spend HIS OWN MONEY to try to stay alive, that's HIS perogative. Now with OBABAMCARE, no one will have that choice......the person will be pushed down the HOSPICE CHUTE ASAP.

62 posted on 08/20/2012 2:47:29 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: kingattax

Suicide is so hard to understand and leaves such destruction behind. My DIL’s father killed himself a few weeks ago. It is heartbreaking to see the family trying to understand and deal with it! Apparently, he started on a new drug for tremors and three days later, he killed himself. Turns out suicide is one of the side effects of that drug. My DIL wants to “explore” this once she is over the shock and has finished probate. Things he left behind indicate that it was almost a spur-of-the-moment decision...SO sad! His timing couldn’t have been worse either. He did it on the anniversary of my baby grandson’s death and was buried on the day my other grandson’s birthday! That alone indicates he wasn’t thinking normally.


63 posted on 08/20/2012 2:55:58 AM PDT by MomofMarine
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To: kingattax

I remember seeing the the movie “Top Gun” years ago. Very sad.


64 posted on 08/20/2012 2:58:57 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: kingattax; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Cincinatus' Wife; ...
It's like a fellow I once knew in El Paso. One day... he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him that same question, "Why?"

And... ?

He said, "It seemed... to be a good idea at the time."

65 posted on 08/20/2012 2:59:49 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Another victim of Hollyweird.

Well true, but the general population commit suicide way more than Hollywood stars, directors, producers etc.


66 posted on 08/20/2012 2:59:57 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Attention Republican National Convention voters....Santorum/Bachmann 2012! Dump liberal Romney NOW!)
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To: Ann Archy

That is why this year’s election is so important in order to get rid of Obamacare.


67 posted on 08/20/2012 3:03:22 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: MaxMax
Suicide is the coward's way out.

Let's say you're 68. You go to the doctor, who tells you your test results have come back and you've got inoperable pancreatic cancer. He says you've got a year to live, maybe with chemotherapy they can extend it to two, but they will be a painful two years and you will watch yourself withering away during that period. And, by the way, that $2m twenty year term insurance policy you bought when you were 50 will be expiring in another year and a half. I'm not saying that's the scenario, but it could be. Would you view jumping off that bridge as a cowardly act under those circumstances?

68 posted on 08/20/2012 3:19:04 AM PDT by KevinB (We'll stop treating Obama like a dog when he stops treating us like a fire hydrant - Fred Grandy)
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To: netmilsmom; cubreporter; Secret Agent Man; dixiechick2000; Vendome
Being diagnosed with Alzheimer's is one reason I can think of. I already went through that with my ex-wife's mother. And my own mother was diagnosed with it six months ago. I do not look forward to the next five years.

I have begged my wife and my closest friends that if something like that happens to me, to please take me to Minnesota in the dead of winter and drop me in a lake. I hope I have the sense to make that drive and take that plunge myself if that situation arises. From the other side, it is without question the most horrible insanity I have ever experienced.

69 posted on 08/20/2012 3:20:44 AM PDT by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: MomofMarine
So sad......that's a heartbreaking story and it sounds like the medicine drove him to suicide......that's WAY different than what usually drives one to do it.

Prayers for you DIL.

70 posted on 08/20/2012 3:21:28 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: KevinB

Yes......one needs to TRUST GOD in ALL things.


71 posted on 08/20/2012 3:23:30 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

Thank you! She needs prayers. That poor girl has lost a teenaged sister, two children and now this! She is the strongest person I’ve even known, but how much can one person take?


72 posted on 08/20/2012 3:30:04 AM PDT by MomofMarine
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To: Talisker

No, they saw someone who looked like him.
I say he's in Tahiti, free from his family and financial obligations, sitting on a yacht.

73 posted on 08/20/2012 3:45:08 AM PDT by Old Sarge (We are now officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet)
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To: dennisw
The Pillars of the Earth (2010)
Medieval drama brought to the screen by Ridley and Tony Scott.

Thanks Mr. Scott. I enjoyed it allot.

74 posted on 08/20/2012 4:07:12 AM PDT by Daaave (Was blind but now I see)
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To: Lancey Howard

Agree. Didn’t someone jump off a building in that movie?


75 posted on 08/20/2012 4:09:38 AM PDT by Perdogg (Mutts for Mitt all agree - Better in the crate than on the plate)
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To: kingattax

Generally I hate it when the grammar police come out but is it really that hard to spell suicide? I think I’ve seen it misspelled 4 times in this thread.


76 posted on 08/20/2012 4:14:36 AM PDT by eak3
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To: cubreporter

5 identical posts! Is that a new record?


78 posted on 08/20/2012 4:20:36 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: kingattax

Crimson Tide was not a good movie. I can see his carreer was going hill. Also it was made in 1995.


79 posted on 08/20/2012 4:26:43 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Corollary - Electing the same person over and over and expecting a different outcome is insanity)
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To: donna

You obviously know nothing about genetic predispostions and chemical imbalances in the brain.

My suggestion: get some education on the topic before you demonstrate your ignorance on the topic again.


80 posted on 08/20/2012 4:29:21 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie
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