Because you ARE suspicious…..and that might just be another word for curious……and I value your curiosity and your willingness to share it….. Naive to a fault, I never suspected/expected, nor was curious about suicides in these current instances……..but I did make note of Blagojevich and his insistence about how he was “dying to tell”…Like someone who says “I love her to death but…..” this is dangerous language from someone who has a history of abusing people…………I mean, language doesn’t go for naught……..Cheney says “so”? So what, all y’all?…..This is a big SO WHAT? Like y’all are too stupid to understand “SO”? That’s like he’s telling us “DUH”….. And so when Obama gets “faulted” for a thoughtful pause, looking for the right word…….uh…uh…..maybe he’s trying to get it right…….This is all we have…this language……Thank your for your suspicious curiosity……..

well, a bit of surfing will show the man was in the ‘Main-suicide-age’ for either rich, poor, healthy, sick’ situations—-global suicide rates have been rising for over a decade, particularly for males, and he was at the top of the ‘bell-shaped-curve’—-so such is not unusual—-it’s known ‘suicide-rates’ are near certainly Under-reported, attributed to accident, etc. As ‘mood’ is usually the source of such, and to spite Big Pharma BS, not understood (more die from scripted drug ODs than all ‘street-drug’ accidents)—-i feel your suspicions tenuous and bereft of understanding—- people ‘self-destruct’ when Life seems overwhelming—-the cause may be ‘endogenous’ (the founder of Kodak, when told he was going to die, just went home and shot himself—-that’s endogenous, situational), or it may be hormones gone awry, as with classic depression—-in either case Life simply becomes the ‘fate-worse-than-death’—-if you were Dutch, and simply tired of living, if two drs. agree? they ‘put-you-down’, painlessly—-if you’ve never experienced a period of life where you just wish you would never awake? i feel it best to say, ‘there, but for you go i’.

Buddy, you read my mind! When the news hit, I emailed my sister and said here is #1. I mean, how would it feel to know you’ve lost a billion, most of which is another person’s money? How would it feel unless you are like Madoff and a financial sociopath….

I think there was probably more to it than just his money: possibly his family will suffer, he may be out on the strett etc. There are many reasons that people commit suicide—very many.