Post by Joanna on Mar 12, 2014 20:17:20 GMT -5
Why are financial officers all over the world committing suicide?
HONG KONG, China – He was identified – in discrete notes in the media – only as Mr. Lee. He was 33-years-old and a promising executive of JP Morgan Chase Multinational Bank and Financial Services.
Between 2 and 3 p.m. on February 18, 2014, he jumped from the roof of the 30-story company headquarters building where he worked after negotiations with police and firemen failed. He died in the ambulance near the hospital at 2:30 p.m.
In an official communication, JP Morgan described the incident as a “sad and tragic incident ... that is being investigated by police. Out of respect for those involved, we cannot yet comment further.”
This case is curious because it is one more in a macabre list of tragic deaths, sequential and recent, all of which involved people in the financial sector, some of whom are linked to the same company. In a 2½-month period, there were eight deaths:
On January 26, 2014, a senior Deutsche Bank executive, William Broeksmit, 58, was found dead in his apartment, in London. The cause of death was determined to be suicide.
The following day, January 27, Karl Slym, 51, director of Tata Motors jumped from the 22nd floor of the Shangri-la Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, where he was staying with his wife. He had attended a meeting on Monday.
The very next day, January 28, Gabriel Magee, 39, a vice president at JP Morgan in London was found on the 9th floor of the building after apparently jumping from the 33rd-floor.
On January 29, Mike Dueker, 50, chief economist at Russell Investments was found dead of an apparent suicide. He had jumped from a ramp on a bridge in Tacoma, Washington.
On February 3, 2014, 37-year-old Ryan Henry Crane, a JP Morgan executive director who had been with the company 14 years was found dead at his home in Stamford, Connecticut.
In addition to the foregoing, on February 4, 2014, Richard Talley, 57, founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, committed suicide using a nail gun. Additionally, in late January, Tim Dickenson, director of communications at Swiss RE in the UK, died under mysterious circumstances.
Source: Weird News, March 8, 2014.