The Morning News is reporting a jumper today at NorthPark Center.
20 comments
I can see the ad now…..
“At Nordstroms we’ve flattened our prices and EVERYTHING, I mean EVERYTHING is falling!!”
@ 3:47 pm on April 3, 2009
Jb, that is a tasteless comment if I ever read one! How would you feel if your father was the one that was struggling for whatever reason and jumped to his death? Yep, you should be ashamed of your comment.
@ 3:52 pm on April 3, 2009
@KB
Indeed, I would be very embarrassed if it were my father that dove off Nordstroms. At least he could have had the decency to jump from Neimans.
@ 4:01 pm on April 3, 2009
Hey look, I got all the sympathy and compassion in the world for the guy BEFORE he jumped. But once he made the jump he joined “The Most Selfish Bastards in the World Club” and stopped caring about everyone and everything around him but himself. Come on people, he chose one of the most high profile places in the city as if to say “Look at me, I should have always been this important” sheesh.
@ 4:28 pm on April 3, 2009
KB—if tasteless comments get your goat, then the Internet might not be the best place for you to spend any time.
@ 4:37 pm on April 3, 2009
Sounds like a few people need to educate themselves on this topic before pulling out the keyboard.
@ 5:24 pm on April 3, 2009
Apparently, when the salesman tells you these shoes make you feel like your walking on air, they don’t mean it literally.
@ 8:42 pm on April 3, 2009
Hey, Get off your highhorse. No, suicide is not fair for the people left behind, unless they understand what a living hell someone could possibly be going through.
Perhaps “his acts of being selfish” was to be able to take away his pain and keep his friends from seeing “how bad” he saw his life. Just wait until a shrink tells you to fake it until you can make it.
Sometime’s when the world is like quick sand your emotions take over and removing yourself from this place in society seems like a better way to go than to be made fun of or feeling so lonely and empty that no matter what you do your a failure.
I don’t know the situation, but let him and his family rest. Why don’t you get a life and leave others alone. It’s people like you saying all you nasty comments that can eat at a weak person. Go home and keep the ones you love happy and let them know how much they mean to you instead of voicing your thoughts about someone elses pain.
@ 11:43 pm on April 3, 2009
Suicide is selfish! How bout the good people that saw him die and have to bear that memory every day. Or my bro who cleaned up his best buds brains! I bear little sympathy for “victims” of suicide!
@ 12:05 am on April 4, 2009
So, who was he?
@ 8:17 am on April 4, 2009
If he didn’t want his friends to see it, then maybe jumping off the top of a popular mall parking garage in front of one of the most popular stores wasn’t an A+ decision. The most selfless thing he did was do it on a weekday in the morning…and he probably only did that because it offered him the least chance of being stopped. I’m all for autonomy and the right to control one’s own fate, but to try to paint suicide as anything other than an I and I decision is silly.
@ 12:46 pm on April 4, 2009
…is anyone surprised this actually leaked to the public? Usually malls try to keep these things low-key: bad publicity and the like.
Would some of you out there have preferred if he chose to end his life in private? What difference does that really make?
What he did wasn’t about anyone else: it was about him making a choice that had an obvious deadly consequence.
Everything people do is really about themselves…and that’s just how it is.
If you live your life allowing yourself to be affected so dramatically by the actions of others, and interpreting the actions of others as about you in some way, then you’re in for a rough life. He killed himself: none of us belong in his shoes, so stop trying to try them on / stop getting mad about what he did to himself.
It’s sad, and it’s awful for his family, the people who knew him, and anyone who saw it happen…but they didn’t kill themselves, and they couldn’t do anything to stop him. It’s done. Yes, they have to deal with it. But, dealing with it has some key components: realizing it had nothing to do with you, moving on, and not letting it control your life.
@ 2:03 pm on April 4, 2009
Quit trying to explain what happened or why he did it or what it means. You all sound arrogant and apathetic. A person who commits suicide obviously finds life overwhelming and can no longer cope. Whatever pain they were feeling, they couldn’t relieve. And yes, others can contribute to a person’s demise. If you believe others can have positive effects in your life, then why would you not believe that others can cause harm also?
@ 3:31 pm on April 4, 2009
You dont always CHOOSE to be affected. Sometimes you JUST ARE affected.
@ 3:34 pm on April 4, 2009
@ SB…People should indeed examine themselves and ask how they could have been more attentive to another person’s emotional state, especially a family member of someone who commits suicide. I am not saying anyone should take blame, but if this person realized he had all these “choices”, he wouldn’t have killed himself.
@ 3:45 pm on April 4, 2009
Huh. I had no idea that parking garage would be high enough.
I saw the aftermath of the woman this winter who jumped from the Central Exwy/Lovers Lane bridge, then hit by a semi, then runover a bunch of times. They should publish photos of that suicide as a deterrent. That. Was. Messy.
@ 6:37 pm on April 4, 2009
It’s tragic that things had to get to this point in his life. But like others, I find it despicable that he chose to do it in such a public place. I’ve had the misfortune of helping people very close to me cope with the aftermath… the horror… of seeing their loved ones after they’ve killed themselves. Stranger or not, it’s traumatic. If someone is intent on suicide, they could just as easily do it somewhere more private. I understand rationale isn’t 100% at that point. It still pisses me off.
@ 12:11 pm on April 5, 2009
None of us know what was going on in his mind. There may have been little premeditation before he made his decision. We can’t say for sure that he was a selfish exhibitionist, but he was definitely troubled.
@ 5:38 pm on April 5, 2009
I would like to say that i knew him, and his family, about 10 years ago when I was young. I have no clue why a doctor would have done such a thing.
@ 5:31 pm on April 6, 2009
My fellow on Facebook shared this link with me and I’m not dissapointed that I came here.
@ 1:20 pm on April 15, 2009
FrontBurner® launched in March 2003, the first blog in Dallas run by a media organization. This is where the editors of D Magazine come to waste a tremendous amount of time.
20 comments
I can see the ad now…..
“At Nordstroms we’ve flattened our prices and EVERYTHING, I mean EVERYTHING is falling!!”
Jb, that is a tasteless comment if I ever read one! How would you feel if your father was the one that was struggling for whatever reason and jumped to his death? Yep, you should be ashamed of your comment.
@KB
Indeed, I would be very embarrassed if it were my father that dove off Nordstroms. At least he could have had the decency to jump from Neimans.
Hey look, I got all the sympathy and compassion in the world for the guy BEFORE he jumped. But once he made the jump he joined “The Most Selfish Bastards in the World Club” and stopped caring about everyone and everything around him but himself. Come on people, he chose one of the most high profile places in the city as if to say “Look at me, I should have always been this important” sheesh.
KB—if tasteless comments get your goat, then the Internet might not be the best place for you to spend any time.
Sounds like a few people need to educate themselves on this topic before pulling out the keyboard.
Apparently, when the salesman tells you these shoes make you feel like your walking on air, they don’t mean it literally.
Hey, Get off your highhorse. No, suicide is not fair for the people left behind, unless they understand what a living hell someone could possibly be going through.
Perhaps “his acts of being selfish” was to be able to take away his pain and keep his friends from seeing “how bad” he saw his life. Just wait until a shrink tells you to fake it until you can make it.
Sometime’s when the world is like quick sand your emotions take over and removing yourself from this place in society seems like a better way to go than to be made fun of or feeling so lonely and empty that no matter what you do your a failure.
I don’t know the situation, but let him and his family rest. Why don’t you get a life and leave others alone. It’s people like you saying all you nasty comments that can eat at a weak person. Go home and keep the ones you love happy and let them know how much they mean to you instead of voicing your thoughts about someone elses pain.
Suicide is selfish! How bout the good people that saw him die and have to bear that memory every day. Or my bro who cleaned up his best buds brains! I bear little sympathy for “victims” of suicide!
So, who was he?
If he didn’t want his friends to see it, then maybe jumping off the top of a popular mall parking garage in front of one of the most popular stores wasn’t an A+ decision. The most selfless thing he did was do it on a weekday in the morning…and he probably only did that because it offered him the least chance of being stopped. I’m all for autonomy and the right to control one’s own fate, but to try to paint suicide as anything other than an I and I decision is silly.
…is anyone surprised this actually leaked to the public? Usually malls try to keep these things low-key: bad publicity and the like.
Would some of you out there have preferred if he chose to end his life in private? What difference does that really make?
What he did wasn’t about anyone else: it was about him making a choice that had an obvious deadly consequence.
Everything people do is really about themselves…and that’s just how it is.
If you live your life allowing yourself to be affected so dramatically by the actions of others, and interpreting the actions of others as about you in some way, then you’re in for a rough life. He killed himself: none of us belong in his shoes, so stop trying to try them on / stop getting mad about what he did to himself.
It’s sad, and it’s awful for his family, the people who knew him, and anyone who saw it happen…but they didn’t kill themselves, and they couldn’t do anything to stop him. It’s done. Yes, they have to deal with it. But, dealing with it has some key components: realizing it had nothing to do with you, moving on, and not letting it control your life.
Quit trying to explain what happened or why he did it or what it means. You all sound arrogant and apathetic. A person who commits suicide obviously finds life overwhelming and can no longer cope. Whatever pain they were feeling, they couldn’t relieve. And yes, others can contribute to a person’s demise. If you believe others can have positive effects in your life, then why would you not believe that others can cause harm also?
You dont always CHOOSE to be affected. Sometimes you JUST ARE affected.
@ SB…People should indeed examine themselves and ask how they could have been more attentive to another person’s emotional state, especially a family member of someone who commits suicide. I am not saying anyone should take blame, but if this person realized he had all these “choices”, he wouldn’t have killed himself.
Huh. I had no idea that parking garage would be high enough.
I saw the aftermath of the woman this winter who jumped from the Central Exwy/Lovers Lane bridge, then hit by a semi, then runover a bunch of times. They should publish photos of that suicide as a deterrent. That. Was. Messy.
It’s tragic that things had to get to this point in his life. But like others, I find it despicable that he chose to do it in such a public place. I’ve had the misfortune of helping people very close to me cope with the aftermath… the horror… of seeing their loved ones after they’ve killed themselves. Stranger or not, it’s traumatic. If someone is intent on suicide, they could just as easily do it somewhere more private. I understand rationale isn’t 100% at that point. It still pisses me off.
None of us know what was going on in his mind. There may have been little premeditation before he made his decision. We can’t say for sure that he was a selfish exhibitionist, but he was definitely troubled.
I would like to say that i knew him, and his family, about 10 years ago when I was young. I have no clue why a doctor would have done such a thing.
My fellow on Facebook shared this link with me and I’m not dissapointed that I came here.