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Old 04-16-2017, 09:22 PM
 
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Read the entire article about Mr. Murphy in the WSJ last week, and of course living on the UES had heard much about his death since that event.


We shall never know the true demons inside anyone; and sadly it seems once again a WASP male with seemingly everything to live for saw things differently enough to take his own life. Unfortunately suicide and certain demographics happen often enough to be come a cliché.


One of the secretaries at work leafing through the story called it "WPP" or more specifically "RWPP" (Rich White Peoples Problems).


Mr. Murphy while yes, suffering some career and or financial setbacks was no where near being destitute or even drifting back into the middle class back ground from whence he came.


It is the wife and children you want to feel sorry for; that young boy who Mr. Murphy was giving skiing lessons on the "bunny trail" just several weeks ago now must cope with a horrible loss in his life. Ditto for the other children including his older ones at college. The widow Murphy must now not only grieve the loss of her husband, but is left to sort out the familial and financial mess his suicide lands her with; pretty darn selfish IMHO.


Felt the same when one of Mr. Madoff's sons offed himself, with the son in next room unattended for that matter. One only considers suicide that involves taking others lives in process far more selfish and certainly evil.


What struck me about the WSJ article was how Mr. Murphy came down to breakfast that morning in a new suit/dressed to impress. When the housekeeper remarked how great he looked, the man replied he "felt great".


To anyone who has studied phycology and or perhaps is in the medical or nursing field, often someone seemingly "not worried" and or getting themselves decked out *may* mean their soul is settled and a course of action planned; suicide.
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Old 04-16-2017, 09:24 PM
 
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NYC is a huge ladder game. There's always another ladder climb and different sets of people to fight for the same pieces of cheese. The higher you go the stakes get higher and the more powerful people you gave to fight.

Mr. Murphy could have gotten off that ladder anytime he wished. The family was far from destitute and when they finally sold their UES townhouse would have more money than all of use put together in our lifetimes.
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Old 04-19-2017, 06:23 AM
 
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We are all going to die. Suicide only fiddles with the timing.
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