Jeffrey Skilling considered suicide, "retreating to his mansion"

Jeffrey Skilling to paper: I considered suicide

Saturday, June 17, 2006; Posted: 1:12 p.m. EDT (17:12 GMT)



http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/06/17/skilling.interview.ap/index.html

NEW YORK (AP) -- Former Enron Corp. President Jeffrey Skilling says he contemplated suicide after his company crumbled and authorities began to ratchet up legal pressure on him. "I've come to the conclusion that life is better than the alternative, which was not a conclusion that was real clear to me for a period of time," Skilling told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published in Saturday editions.

Skilling, 52, said he sought psychiatric help but was only able to emerge from a deep, two-year malaise after his 2004 indictment in which he was charged with conspiracy, fraud and insider trading, among other counts.

"The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point," Skilling told the newspaper. "That's when I started climbing back."

During those couple of years of depression, Skilling said he turned into a recluse, retreating to his mansion in an upscale part of Houston, where he lingered in bed and obsessively followed coverage of the scandal.

That is messed up.

I think it's worth a shot. ;)

I am also now wondering how well adjusted Scooter Libby is. :)

He's a sympathy whore. It's hard for me to feel too bad about someone who actually has the option of retreating to his mansion when things are getting tough. Poor baby. :eyes:

Mz Pip
:dem:

Why the hell couldn't he just have done it and saved the trouble of trying his sorry ass? :nopity:

n/t

:nopity:

Luckily, he had the luxury of retreating to a "Mansion" and
"doing nothing all day".

Some people must work... Come over to my house and I'll give
you something to do. Nothing takes your mind off your worries
like being hungry.

also did the same.

Go peddle it someplace else, Jeff.

I wonder if he considered how many families affected by what he did and how people in those families are and were probably considering the same thing... It is not about him, he fucked the employees and stockholders royally....

honour in that.

they just don't want to face the music."

Or are glib generalizations, the sort that feel good, resolve nothing, and negate the need of one to help another with, preferable for you?

Some people, terminally ill, should be allowed to peaceably die. How is keeping them alive, in pain or paralysis, "not facing the music"?!?!

The actual quote is, "People who commit suicide don't want to die. They don't want to live."

Yes, I was being glib about Skilling.

I was a counselor and confronted with suicidal people who had various reasons for not wanting to live. Life gets tricky, painful, frightening, embarassing, threatening, depressing, whatever. We all have to face it. Most of us, at one time or another contemplate escape through death. Whether a passing fancy, or a serious contemplation. I certainly have. I may well do so again.

Most, certainly not all, of the time it requires that we resolve the problems by doing something we don't want to do. Make an apology. Admit that we were wrong. Endure some unpleasantness. Start over. Face the "unfairness of life". Give up the notion that "I'm special".

Anyway, you're on the wrong track. I fully support people who decide to end their own lives when terminally ill, or living in unendurable pain, or helplessness.

:nopity: Go ahead, kill yourself. Don't forget to blow out the pilot lights and put the gun way back in your throat.

Oh, that's right... I don't have one! :shrug:

There is a big difference between retreating to your mansion to live off of your stolen millions and full-blown clinical depression.

Big difference.

I know.

He needs to be homeless and living under a bridge cooking hot dogs/road kill with a campfire.

for the people he cajoled and robbed to do his suicide FOR him.

The 50-somethings with no job, whose pensions are gone because of that slimy little dingleberry-ridden fartbastard.

Not suicide. Fuck, no. Skillet there is not worthy.

And can that facial expression of his get even more disingenuous?!