Intrade CEO dies on Mount Everest

[efficiency]

Quote from olias:

Not 'everyone' does that. But this a good litmus test for how evolved a person is. The type of people who jump right in and make fun of the guy or put him down obviously have their own self-esteem issues. They need to put others down in order to feel better about themselves.

An evolved person realizes that they don't know his circumstances or what his thought process was and has no desire to cast judgement on the guy.

You see it time and time again on this website.

Psychologists refer to it as displacement.

I must admit I'm guilty of it too. This includes the recurring vision of caps on backwards, empty Mountain Dew cans everywhere, a mouse house account, shooting anything that moves, exciting and exiting over chump change (to gratify the ego) OR............blaming someone else (protecting the ego) when "it" moves in the other direction. When they finally blow account their account, POOF they disappear. Only to be replaced by more.

As for the topic at hand, the guy had the gonads to attempt it not once but twice. He died pursuing a goal the majority of us will never attempt. That includes me. To paraphrase John Cougar, that's living life close to the bone. I would imagine he left his wife (and family) a decent estate. She can re-marry. He can't.

 

[Dalmation]

Mouse house account? What kinda lingo you talk?

 

[efficiency]

Quote from Dalmation:

Mouse house account? What kinda lingo you talk?

Lingo?

Eh........the kind of brokerage where customers concern themselves more with the five free trades rather than their fills (amongst a host of other naive and mis-guided aspects).

Perhaps you might consider focusing upon the topic at hand. Just a thought.

Now allow me to uncheck the e-mail notification box. Outta sight, outta mind.

 

[shortie]

Quote from FightTheFuture:

It's going to be different this time.
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The death rate on Mount Everest has not changed over the years, with about one death for every 10 successful ascents.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060824222248.htm

the odds of survival are worse than the odds of an astronaut coming back in one piece but are slightly better than the odds in Russian roulette.

 

[jprad]

Quote from Ghost of Cutten:

Better to live a day as a tiger than a lifetime as a lamb.

It's okay to be a tiger when you're single as they're solitary animals. But, once you're MWC, you should defend your pride as a lion does.

I feel bad for his wife and kids, but he was acting like a selfish idiot, no sympathy for him.

 

[veritas007]

Is there anyway this could be suicide? Intrade had never made a profit and volume on Intrade was severely down. Maybe he had an an insurance policy and thought his kids would be better off if he were dead. I have no evidence that he committed suicide, and am just throwing it out there as a possibility.

 

[atticus]

Quote from veritas007:

Is there anyway this could be suicide? Intrade had never made a profit and volume on Intrade was severely down. Maybe he had an an insurance policy and thought his kids would be better off if he were dead. I have no evidence that he committed suicide, and am just throwing it out there as a possibility.

Why don't you go to Nepal and check first-hand and let us know.

 

[eudaemon]

Quote from atticus:

Why don't you go to Nepal and check first-hand and let us know.

 

[Gabfly1]

Quote from marketsurfer:

...Better to die that way than in some dirty hospital wasting away...

I would imagine there are other options.

 

[Gabfly1]

Quote from olias:

Not 'everyone' does that. But this a good litmus test for how evolved a person is. The type of people who jump right in and make fun of the guy or put him down obviously have their own self-esteem issues. They need to put others down in order to feel better about themselves.

An evolved person realizes that they don't know his circumstances or what his thought process was and has no desire to cast judgement on the guy.

You see it time and time again on this website.

That may be, but there are several people here aggrandizing the nature of his death despite also not knowing his circumstances. Meanwhile, we all know this: a wife is without a husband and a infant no longer has a father because a man chose to engage in what appears to be gratuitous risk. Let me know if more new information becomes available so that we can add to the facts.