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re: Aggie professor jumps to his death from campus parking garage
Posted on 1/10/13 at 1:25 pm to bpfergu
Posted on 1/10/13 at 1:25 pm to bpfergu
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That's not the point. The university should still make an active effort to at least try to combat the problem. It doesn't look very good when 2 people a year are jumping from the same parking garage and the university just accepts it as-is.
the US suicide rate is 12 per 100,000 people each year.
2 is actually below normal rates considering A&M has more than 55,000 people when you combine students and faculty.
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Posted on 1/10/13 at 1:28 pm to bpfergu
Jesus.
Prayers for his family.
Prayers for his family.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 1:32 pm to Dr RC
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the US suicide rate is 12 per 100,000 people each year.
2 is actually below normal rates considering A&M has more than 55,000 people when you combine students and faculty.
I'm fairly sure 2 suicides from a single parking garage per year is higher than average for parking garages.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 1:33 pm to bpfergu
That's how a man does it. Just jump. Don't take a bunch of other people with you.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 1:33 pm to bpfergu
Holy frick!!!
Posted on 1/10/13 at 1:35 pm to bpfergu
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I'm fairly sure 2 suicides from a single parking garage per year is higher than average for parking garages.
if a person is determined to take their own life they are going to figure out a way how.
there are plenty of tall building on campus it could be done from.
its sad but it is what it is.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 1:35 pm to bpfergu
He was one of my profs. I was a communications major. Kind of a weird guy. Sad.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 1:44 pm to bpfergu
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Posted on 1/10/13 at 1:46 pm to stat19
T&P
Posted on 1/10/13 at 1:48 pm to KaiserSoze99
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I was a communications major.
What class year? Mrs. Tbird was a comm major.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 1:48 pm to TbirdSpur2010
1999
Posted on 1/10/13 at 1:49 pm to bpfergu
Dude, if somebody wanted to die, they could jump off one of our parking garages, too. Especially Harmon. That place is a suicide waiting to happen.
ETA: A prof I had in school walked to the spillway at Lake Fayetteville last year at 2:00 am, called 911, and put a bullet in his brain.
ETA: A prof I had in school walked to the spillway at Lake Fayetteville last year at 2:00 am, called 911, and put a bullet in his brain.
This post was edited on 1/10/13 at 1:52 pm
Posted on 1/10/13 at 1:50 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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That's how a man does it. Just jump. Don't take a bunch of other people with you.
A man? More like a coward.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 1:54 pm to KaiserSoze99
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1999
nvm, we're too new army
Pretty sure she knew the prof, though, and that saddens me.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 1:56 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
I don't know if I'd classify that as "manly", but its preferable to going on a shooting rampage or blowing something up in the process.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 2:13 pm to CapstoneGrad04
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A man? More like a coward.
I've never viewed suicide as cowardice. His children were grown and were no longer dependent on him for support.
He was tired of life, he chose to end it. No fanfare or look at me stunts. Step up and step off.
He also didn't go into a classroom with a gun and force the police to take him out. As a professor, he has ample opportunity to do something like that.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 2:45 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
His children are dependent, they are both autistic.
Don't know where this 2/year bs came from. 1 other person, a student, jumped from the same parking garage several years ago.
Don't know where this 2/year bs came from. 1 other person, a student, jumped from the same parking garage several years ago.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 2:56 pm to bpfergu
Had him 2 semester ago. Helped me out on a couple a grades and seemed to be a nice guy, weird as shite but nice. But I have no sympathy for a man who kills himself and leaves a family behind
This post was edited on 1/10/13 at 2:58 pm
Posted on 1/10/13 at 3:01 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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I've never viewed suicide as cowardice.
Agreed. It is what happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with that pain. A man who is lit on fire doesn't stop to think rationally before he jumps into the lake. Thoughts and prayers to his family. Really sad situation.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 3:04 pm to theSECofTX
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But I have no sympathy for a man who kills himself and leaves a family behind
This.
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