Posted on 09/06/2004 5:50:18 PM PDT by wagglebee
NEW YORK -- A graduate student at New York University jumped to her death Monday from the rooftop of its prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, police said.
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Maybe somebody is putting something in the cafeteria food. Does this school even have a cafeteria? If it does...there should be an investigation into the cafeteria employees. Maybe the workers are Muslims....or Mexican members of la Raza. Wait let me go get my tin foil hat.
I imagine the supposedly high number of suicide deaths in NYC has to do with percentages of population but I'm not certain. My boyfriend and I were returning to my apartment late one night a few years ago in Manhattan and just missed witnessing a young woman jump to her death in the building next door to mine. It was a horrifying experience. I can't imagine how someone could do such a thing.
If I felt life wasn't worth living, instead of committing suicide, I'd do something really wild that I had always wanted to do but had never taken the risk. I mean, if you're willing to make a change as drastic as becoming a dead person rather than one who is alive, why not just "jump" in a different direction?
High pressure schools have suicides in their graduate programs. Sad but true.
Good philosophy. I think I'll quit my job...sell my house and become a forty year old surfer dude.
Abbie Hoffman committed suicide, because of Reagan's popularity.
They may want to investigate if so many students are killing themselves. Its rather coincidental - could there be a third party involved?
Serial murder, perhaps?
She got a good look at the world bequeathed to her by the boomers and decided to get the hell out now and avoid the rush.
"Marlowe, you're not human tonight."
That's NASTY!
Yea, I agree. She probably killed herself because she realized she was in a dead-end career path. Everyone knows that the only worthwhile pursuits in life are those that rake in large amounts of cash. Not.
At least he died happy.
As a working professional artist, I partially disagree. Degrees cannot assure success, neither the lack of a degree. I am self-taught, sans degree, not only above minimum wage, but make a comfortable living. If you can enjoy what you do and not consider it work, and many people are willing to pay for your creativity (sometimes more than you think it's worth, but they do) you can feel good about what you do as an artist. I feel really good.
The medical examiner said Bohler's death was accidental, related to his use of hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Lol, us poor teenage rednecks didn't have multi-story, parent funded dormitories to jump out of.
If you're going to eat mushrooms, bring a case of beer and a carton of smokes.
They might soothe yer nerves after tripping sixteen hours.
Maybe it was performance art. In any case, if the the 6 were part of a mime studies program, it would make sense.
The best part of the experience of having observed a suicide (or, more precisely, its immediate aftermath) was the way that the news that I had seen such a thing filtered though the family grapevine and, as usual, got distorted along the chain of transmission. I received a frantic phone call from an aunt that I hadn't heard form in years - expressing her concern that she had heard that I was "talking about suicide" - not as in "talking about having witnessed a suicide" but as in contemplating such an act.Ugh!
This is NYU cluster is pretty interesting. I wonder if by selecting from students of only the highest SAT/ACT scores they may be concentrating less emotional stability into the student body. Dunno.
You will never understand and blaming the university is ludicrous.
Six this calendar year, not school year.
My parents were both artists: Met in Art School.
One thing that was always taught us, and it is true in any field:
Just last night I got a phone call from an old High School Friend, bemoaning that he was a failure. I told him, he could have changed careers a dozen times in the last few decades, but the truth is, he was a BAD engineer, who persisted in remaining in a field to which he was unsuited, clinging to it, when it was just a wrong choice he made at age 19!
I figured it was calendar year, although the article doesn't clarify it. Thanks.
Damn, must have thought he could fly.
Years ago, a high school kid that was tripping on LSD survived jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.
The Coast Guard crew that went to retrieve "the body", were surprised when the kid swam over to the boat.
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