Hedge Fund Millionaire Robert Wilson Has Died After Reported Suicide

[Swan Noir]

We are not getting off topic here ... only YOU got off topic. Here is what YOU said:

"No, murder is a sin, in most countries."

I simply corrected YOUR statement because the statement is rediculous. Got it? YOU give us the distinction as if we need to learn about the difference when in fact only YOU were confused about the distinction.

Let me put YOU on the right course: Murder is illegal in every country but is not a sin in most coutries. Got it.

The reaon I am being so pedantic on the issue (including the caps) is that instead of just acknowledging that what you said was wrong you sat us down to give us a grade school lesson to obscure YOUR error. It is freakin' tedious. Don't do it. It makes YOU look foolish.

Quote from Pekelo:

We are getting offtopic here, and I think we actually agree...



I assume you are talking about suicide and not murder. There are 2 kind of
rules here (to live by), laws of the land and morals of your upbringing/religion. They are not the same, obviously. There is really nothing to judge by a 85 years old at the end of his life. Personally, your life is yours so you do with it what you like...

I hate religious people who are trying to push their moral standards on others as the poster did a few posts above...

But anyway, he had a long and fulfilling life....

 

[Swan Noir]

While I initially cheered his decision to pull the plug I agree that the plug was pulled in a manner that was rude and messy. In his defense, his faculties may have been impaired intereering with his ability to think straight.

Leaving the suicide aside, I think we can all agree that it was a hell of a life ... making it, living well and giving it away. I know the building he lived in and have been in one of the 11 room apartments as well as on the roof. The views of the park and midtown are stunning.

Quote from TulsaTrader:

I think he could have done a better job on his end of life planning.

This option left behind a mess for someone else to clean up and probably a traumatic experience for some person walking down the street.

 

[Swan Noir]

I'm not sure what you are trying to say.

Quote from tortoise:

He was atheist.

Which means now he either knows he was wrong. Or he doesn't know a thing.

 

[actionzip54]

Family probably won't get his 150k metlife life insurance policy. I hope his grand children will be able to attend NYSU Albany. It's really a total shame.

 

[Visaria]

He didn't have any children. Would assume therefore he didn't have any grandkids either.

 

[Swan Noir]

He did not die broke ... whether he had kids or not.

Quote from actionzip54:

Family probably won't get his 150k metlife life insurance policy. I hope his grand children will be able to attend NYSU Albany. It's really a total shame.

 

[Ghost of Cutten]

Quote from Wulfrede:


While clearly an outstanding individual, his late life likely had little meaning for anyone outside of his intimate circle. And that circle was probably very small.

Really? Don't you think his charitable contributions had any meaning? Or his achievements as a speculator, and the knowledge he shared in various interviews about how he did that?

Also, do most people have a late life that has any meaning for people outside their intimate circle, and do most people have large intimate circles (a contradiction in terms, surely) at 88? No, they don't.

Your comment is inaccurate and would be pointless even if it was true.

 

[Ghost of Cutten]

Quote from Swan Noir:

While I initially cheered his decision to pull the plug I agree that the plug was pulled in a manner that was rude and messy. In his defense, his faculties may have been impaired intereering with his ability to think straight.

Leaving the suicide aside, I think we can all agree that it was a hell of a life ... making it, living well and giving it away. I know the building he lived in and have been in one of the 11 room apartments as well as on the roof. The views of the park and midtown are stunning.

In his defense, jumping to his death took some balls, was probably quite a thrill, relatively painless, and free of bureaucracy. As opposed to the standard western way of death, being force fed and kept alive by a machine while various bored hospital functionaries shuffle papers and pretend to give a shit.

 

[Ghost of Cutten]

Quote from Maverick74:

Yeah exactly. I never understand this. Why not just OD on a bottle of sleeping pills. Is it really necessary to paint the sidewalk? Same thing for these people who jump in front of trains. Why traumatize so many people just to end your life.

OD isn't guaranteed, you can wake up a vegetable, or die in agony if you misjudge the dose or your reaction. OD is also boring.

I don't think someone about to die gives much of a shit if someone is 'traumatised' by seeing them go splat. Having a terminal illness and diminished mental faculties is traumatising. Being young, healthy, and seeing an old person on their last legs go splat is not.

 

[Swan Noir]

But to a 70 year old woman that walks with a cane seeing (or worse yet being the landing pad) would be traumatizing. I know the block he lived on well -- most New Yorkers do -- and it is far from a sleepy street.

Common sense tells you that jumping where people might be hurt is a damn inconsiderate act.

Quote from Ghost of Cutten:

OD isn't guaranteed, you can wake up a vegetable, or die in agony if you misjudge the dose or your reaction. OD is also boring.

I don't think someone about to die gives much of a shit if someone is 'traumatised' by seeing them go splat. Having a terminal illness and diminished mental faculties is traumatising. Being young, healthy, and seeing an old person on their last legs go splat is not.