J. MICHAEL CLINE, FANDANGO FOUNDER DEAD AT 64 ...Leapt From Hotel, Left Suicide Note

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[Free Deplorable]

You gotta ask if maybe he did a short sale on certain stock that didnt pan out.

[Qiviut]

#3? (Dobbs, Newhart)

[Red Badger]

Shannon Doherty......

[Qiviut]

Yup - 53, so sad.

[blueplum]

not much to add except this UPI story on Msn which says, His death occurred days after gallbladder surgery. Maybe he was hopped up on painkillers and not thinking straight? Also read elsewhere his wife just bought $20M mansion in FL.

[Gideon7]

An article in the October 2003 issue of The New Yorker magazine (Title: 'Jumpers: The fatal grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge') explained that the jumpers who had survived jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco, a bridge with a 98% fatality rate, revealed an interesting commonality:

As soon as they jumped they regretted doing it.

Kevin Hines was 18 when he jumped in September, 2000. After he crossed the chord, he recalled, "My first thought was, 'What the hell did I just do? I don't want to die.'".

Ken Baldwin did it in August 1985. As he crossed the chord in flight, Baldwin recalls, "I instantly realized that everything in my life that I'd thought was unfixable was totally fixable - except for having just jumped.".

Paul Alarab in March 1990. "I was praying for God to give me another chance."

[21twelve]

Paul Alarab in March 1990. “I was praying for God to give me another chance.”

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So was Paul successful on his second jump?

[Gideon7]

Yes

[21twelve]

Wow - he DID jump again 15 years later and was successful on killing himself.

“As officers tried to talk him back to safety, he read a statement denouncing the [Iraq] war, then let go of the rope and fell 235 feet to his death.”

God answers prayer.
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And the Iraq War is over!!

[dware]

Well, that escalated quickly. Lol