Posted on 02/03/2011 4:23:40 PM PST by Justaham
The youngest son of jailed former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling has been found dead in his college apartment. John Taylor Skilling, who went by the nickname JT, was just 20 years old. He was a sophomore at Chapman University in Orange, California.
Mystery surrounds his death after authorities ruled out foul play or suicide, his father's attorney Daniel Petrocelli said. The Orange County Coroner's office said the death is under investigation. Toxicology results will take four to six weeks. A local TV station reported there was 'no obvious' cause of death.
Mr Petrocelli told CNBC that classmates became concerned when they had not seen JT for some time. They broke into his off-campus Santa Ana apartment on Tuesday and found him dead. It was not clear when he had died.
His father became the most vilified figure of the Enron collapse, one of the biggest corporate scandals in U.S. history.
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Prayers for the young man.
Tragic. I’ll pray for him, and his parents. No parent should outlive their children.
Sad all around, RIP
Jeffrey Skilling, former president of Enron Corporation is currently serving a 24-year, 4-month prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Englewood, Colorado.
Very sad. No one should die at such a young age.
Very sad. Kids get depressed, regardless of who their daddy is, but they never realize that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
I think it’s because they honestly don’t understand that they’re going to be DEAD, partly because youth never believes in death and partly because a lot of young people now have been raised with absolutely no understanding of life - or death, judgment and eternity (Heaven and Hell).
They’re pagans, so I’m sure God will spare them his wrath for rejecting his gift of life. But it’s horrible that a 20 yr old should throw away his chance at the normal average of another 50-60 years of the delights of life and being.
Seems odd to say the least. How many kids would actually call the cops around 10 pm because their friend didn't show up for dinner. Something doesn't add up here. They must have suspected something was up. Sad story, though. Only 20 years old. So young.
I think its because they don't know you eventually get over it (whatever the it is.)
Very sad, may God bless and accept him in Heaven.
Mr Petrocelli told CNBC that classmates became concerned when they had not seen JT for some time. They broke into his off-campus Santa Ana apartment on Tuesday and found him dead. It was not clear when he had died.
Prayers for his family.
Any connection to Obama?
Enron was hip deep with the Clinton crowd. Let’s hope the son wasn’t killed to keep old man Skilling hushed up.
I read in another story that he had been despondent over the breakup with a girlfriend. He obviously had friends who cared and were concerned for him - it’s a shame, as another freeper said, he chose such a permanent solution.
Condolences to the Skilling family and John Taylor Skilling’s friends.
Real depression is *not* a "temporary problem." It is a physical disorder that will stalk the afflicted person all his life. Medication and treatment may or may not be successful or helpful. It may even aggravate the condition.
God's wrath called for, rather than God's mercy, for those suicidally afflicted with depression? I can't fathom where you got such a viewpoint.
Huh? I said that I thought that they didn’t understand the stakes and God would spare them. We live in a society where contempt for the gift of life is being urged on us from every side, whether in the form of abortion or that of euthanasia. It’s no wonder that young people don’t really comprehend the value of their lives.
Clinical depression is not generally a life-long condition. A study also revealed that in most cases, it resolves itself in a certain number of years, whether treatment is given or not. That is, unless one has committed suicide first.
This young man was taking medication, probably anti-depressives, and we have all seen what that can do to someone’s judgment, so I think that his response may have had something to do with that, rather than being the son of Skilling. But I think the fact that our society does not value the life one has been given and does not consider the fact that eternity is, well, eternity certainly influences the attitudes of a person who is depressed and gives them nothing to hold onto and no moral and emotional way to fight back.
RIP.
His uncle is a weatherman for WGN
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