Posted on 12/10/2014 2:32:29 AM PST by BlackVeil
A banker has died after becoming impaled on railings after falling 60ft from the window of a luxury penthouse in central London, which is next door to John Lennon's former home.
...Metropolitan Police said the man's death was not being treated as suspicious but confirmed enquiries were being carried out into the circumstances surrounding his death.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Ping ...
Do you have any data on how privileged men kill themselves?
Ok but w a nail gun....eight times?...and one off a 15 foot stone wall?
I think the guy with the nail gun worked for a title company, but hey . . . if conspiracies are your thing . . . I’m the murderer.
Another one? How many does that make - 63? I read about another several days ago.
They are more likely to take a fatal overdose, or use a handgun. I don’t have statistics for upper-class men in the Western world, but an Indian study of attempted suicide noted that: “Finding showed that there are no significant relationships between sex, age, marital status, frequency of attempted suicide and their social class. But there is significant relationship between methods of suicide and social class.”
In other words, when you stated “this is not a common way for privileged men to kill themselves,” you made it up.
Forum member Nachum has a list, with links, of some of the most notable cases. I hope he will post it here. We should be informed. It is tragic, and also quite mysterious.
Scary! Now I will not be able to doze off to sleep ...
No, I have read several studies (I do not have them by me), which document how means of suicide vary from one social class to another, and one nationality to another.
For instance, plunging from a height is rare among socially privileged Westerners, but is a common form of suicide among Chinese in Hong Kong.
Jeeze, is anyone else thinking of “The Omen?”
Apparently Dagnabitt is. He posted a pic which would give anyone the chills.
>> this is not a common way for privileged men to kill themselves
That depends if they had their shoes on.
All those rich stockbrokers who jumped out of their Wall Street high rise offices on Black Tuesday 1929 were, privileged up until that day.
And for those who referenced the OMEN? Balderdash!!
I didn’t quite get the Omen reference given things from atop fell upon the victim...
>>No, I have read several studies (I do not have them by me), which document how means of suicide vary from one social class to another, and one nationality to another.<<
Not to be macabre (wait — to be exactly that) from what I have read is that women prefer to leave a good looking corpse. Poison and drug OD seems to be the preferred exit strategy.
Guys, OTOH — kaboom. Maybe the final swan dive, maybe the bullet, maybe something inventive.
I have contemplated an exit strategy for a bit. It is a big Sin so I have demurred. One does not spit in God’s eye with no blowback.
Well, this happened in London, so no handguns allowed.
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