Posted on 06/07/2011 8:45:55 PM PDT by kcvl
A former basketball captain for the Duke Blue Devils jumped to his death from the top of the New York Athletic Club on Central Park South today, police said.
Thomas Emma, 49, of Manhattan, plunged from the 12th-floor of the building at around 11:20 a.m. and crashed down on a second floor landing of the Essex House hotel, sources said.
Friends said that Emma had recently dealing with health issues, but would not specify what exactly Emma was afflicted with.
Emma played for Duke University from 1980-1983 and was a tenth-round pick for the Chicago Bulls in 1983, but never played a regular season game.
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I’m sorry he had health issues.
I’m sorry his career in the NBA was a flop.
He was a selfish bastard for doing what he did to family and friends. He was a selfish bastard for doing it in front of (likely) women and children and not caring what they saw.
To hell with him.
No mention of family in the article, perhaps AIDS? I doubt there would have been many witnesses given where he jumped and where he landed.
I remember him as a high school star on Long Island (I am three years older) when he was recruited.
I would think when someone decides to commit suicide they are so mentally tortured, they are unable to think of the pain they will cause others.
Sad.
From what I’ve observed, read and researched, most people who commit suicide are very selfish and self-centered.
I noticed the absence of any family being mentioned. I guess not married. Wonder if athletes such as himself who are used to being acclaimed early on - can’t accept that they aren’t that great after all and have problems like the next guy that is out of their control - their promising life didn’t turn out so promising.
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Yes the act is selfish but has it been researched if that is the way they lived their life? Being self centered, selfish?
That was the general consensus of many sociologists when I was a Sociology Major in the late 70s.
Lots of BS and received wisdom, if wisdom it ever is.
Selfish? In Japan and other cultures that act is seen as honorable.
What if the suicide does not cause pain to the proverbial and unknown “others”, if such even exist?
Can as person by driven by others to suicide? I believe that happens all the time.
The selfish one is you you failed to come across and help the man in need.
Oh let's just second guess about someones death./s
I say RIP.
I don’t think we really know very much about what drives actual suicides. All we can ever study are people that ~attempt~ suicide, and IMHO those are two very different groups of people. Those that really do intend to die, generally succeed. Those that don’t succeed likely didn’t really mean it. Studying the latter doesn’t shed any light on the former, IMHO.
I’ve known two people over the years that have killed themselves. Both of them were cases where it came totally out of nowhere. There was no sign at all to anybody that knew them. Nothing to alert anyone. Suddenly they were gone. What kind of private hell they carried, was known only to them.
Gee wonder if my plumber and mechanic would concur with there thinking on psychiatry
OH, Geez, the specialists in the field of psychiatry (your plumber and mechanic) will most likely abstain from commenting on sociology an entirely separate and different part of social SCIENCES!
second guess? How am I second guessing about this death by suicide - it happened! Or is it you just wanted to have something derogatory to say? Blow your steam some where else!
Sad. RIP.
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