Fandango Founder dies in fall from Midtown Manhattan hotel suite

Fortunately, he didn’t take anyone else with him on his descent.

It wasn’t me… for once.

I'll never understand this particular method of suicide. It's horrific, and you have several seconds to anticipate and regret before going splat.

There’s a Manhattan hotel where you can open the windows wide enough to get out? Maybe he had a suite with a terrace.

Definite BDF.

As to R3’s point, I had an uncle who committed suicide long before I was born (& when my mother, his sister, was just seven). He died jumping off a boat following an argument with his girlfriend. I was able to find newspaper articles about his death & learned that witnesses reported he had a change of heart about wanting to die but couldn’t save himself. It was heartbreaking to read.

R3 I’ve seen interviews with bridge jump survivors, and they all said the same thing: “The minute I let go, I regretted it.” You can imagine what the ones who didn’t make it thought as well.

R6 I am so sorry to read that. What a gut-wrenching story. I hope your uncle is at peace.

R3, you’re using logic in an illogical situation. When someone is in that much despair and depression has control, logic isn’t a factor. We’ll never be able to understand.

A reasonable person wouldn’t do such a thing.

r3 it is horrific, indeed.

But it is also easily accessible. It doesn't require much planning. You don't need to purchase a firearm. From a certain height, it's almost always fatal. Unlike a lot of methods, you can't "call for help" or "change your mind" once it's initiated.

As far as getting to that point, William Styron once wrote, "The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne."

Did he know Peter Thiel?

He appeared to be a strapping guy, must have made a hell of a mess.

Why'd he do it? Was he facing financial troubles?

Good Lord. Super rich and successful, and he chooses the fucking Kimberly as his last place on Earth? Clearly not in his right mind.

Yo no do sidewalks.

[quote] [R6] I am so sorry to read that. What a gut-wrenching story. I hope your uncle is at peace.

Yes R7, we all hope he still isn’t out there, treading water and awaiting rescue. 🙄

The Kimberly's website says 'Enjoy Our New York City Hotel Suites with Balconies'. That's why he choose it.

Can I have his stuff?

I suspect he didn’t die in the fall, but after.

The forced the Vessel to close, but The Kimberly freely advertises NYC balconies? What a world.

Was it the LSD?

There is no confirmation that Trump didn't push him.

UPDATE

Sad. BDF for days. Verificatia of sizemeat?

So how much did he steal?

Very curious what he did or what he thought he did. Or, alternatively, if he was suicided, and why

There was a bridge in town I used to think about from time to time and I didn't do shit to deserve thoughts of death, however, except have a bullying narcissist for a dad.

"The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night." - Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Böse (1886)

I'd get too dizzy to jump.

[quote]The 64-year-old “serial entrepreneur” and father of six

SIX???

What year does he think this is? 1802?

Good riddance.

R7 There is a sick poster on here who tells me to kill myself daily. It truly is sad. As someone who has contemplated not so much actually being suicidal but having dealt with depression and wishing not to exist anymore. But I always fell back on my faith and family. I can’t imagine what someone feeling more hopeless with no support system must be going thru.

[quote] Fandango founder left heartbreaking suicide note before jumping from NYC luxury hotel: ‘I can’t explain the pain’

I can: money owed to the Russians.

I always fall back on sheer terror. Jumping off a high building, all the blood from slitting my throat, drowning in vomit by overdosing on pills...

I read that if you jump off a very tall building some people die of a heart attack before they hit the pavement.

R31, Or lose consciousness.

How’d you like to be the third floor hotel guest whose terrace he landed on?

“Did you hear something, babe?”

Rest in peace

More like rest in pieces.

[Quote] I had an uncle who committed suicide long before I was born

Yes, my parents both committed suicide several years before I was born.

Suicide or Putin-cide?

That Post article is a piece of trash. He claimed the pain was unbearable. Pain from what?

Physical pain? They mention he had had gall bladder surgery.

If I get to a point where I'm terminally sick and/or can no longer care for myself my plan is to check into an expensive hotel, have a glorious last meal then swallow as many pills as I can find. I also plan to put a plastic sheet on the bed and wear a Depends so as not to inconvenience the hotel and make a mess. I think that's the easiest way to go out.

R28, I think those of us who have entered this very dark and hopeless space understand it at another level. I hope you can tune out whoever is saying that to you.

I don’t have anything much in common with this millionaire jumper, but to an extent, I know where his head was when he wrote the note and then leapt. It makes me so sad that he was all alone and felt no way out. And to make it more about me, it scares me that I might re-enter that similar state one day.

I’m so sorry for this guy and anyone who reaches this nadir. It seems like dying is the only way to end it. RIP.

#39, you should do it on a tropical beach, like Fiji. Hotels are tacky.

No matter how you kill yourself, you’re leaving a dead body for someone else to clean up, with some very rare exceptions, like jumping into a volcano or off a cruise ship if it’s very far from land.

Don't give your company a name that tells potential clients / customers NOTHING about what it can do for them (unlike "Moviefone").

The body:

Over. No one's fun anymore. What ever happened to fun? I'm so bored I could die.

And then she died.

R44, He sure was a tall one.

[quote] I also plan to put a plastic sheet on the bed and wear a Depends

And how would that differ from your normal routine?

His method of choice was strangely Russian.

No, he didn’t fall out “accidentally.”

His name should have been Lexi Featherstone.

The look on that lady's face at R44's link, says it all.

She is so over her job.

R52, He was probably her fifth dead body that day.

You could also jump into a vat of sulphuric acid. No pesky cleanup!

All the Russian comments in the thread are weird.

The issue of how to not leave a mess for the person who has to deal with your remains is something I've wondered about. You don't want to burden some unknown person or cause distress, you just want to go away. And plenty of innocent bystanders have been killed by falling bodies.

I think Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas had a good approach. Hire a pro, leave her enough money for therapy

r6 I understand that just about everyone that is saved from suicide said they regretted it the moment they did it.

When her children were younger, my mother would tell us that her brother died as a result of a drowning. When my sisters and I and our cousins got older the talk amongst us was that our uncle, in fact, had committed suicide by jumping from a boat. I had wondered if the drowning story my mother, born in 1929, had been told to her as a child and something she just accepted as she got older. Since there were so many family secrets, I would call her out on this, comparing the family legend as akin to saying that someone who shot themself to death had died of a gunshot wound. Correct, but not the full story. It was only after she had died that I discovered the old newspaper articles on newspaper.com. I was kinda glad that she was spared from reading the articles.

The times I've been suicidal, it was always very impulsive. I could never jump or hang myself, the moment of regret would be too much for me to bear. I'm happy that I don't own a gun, as it's not easy to get one here, or I'd be dead. Poor guy

One less capitalist pig.

R56 lots of people wake up from suicide attempts upset that it hasn’t worked, and then try again

Jesus there is no such word as “suicided”

I was just conversating with a friend about that, R61.

And it's in my twat. Good.

[quote] I read that if you jump off a very tall building some people die of a heart attack before they hit the pavement.

Very doubtful seeing as a fall from, oh let's say 50 stories, only takes about 5 seconds. The heart would have to simply stop beating and I don't believe that could happen simply from fear.

I have heard that a person falling a long distance is unable to breathe during the fall.

r61 the OED begs to differ.

I would be afraid I'd land on someone and kill them...or land in front of a child or anyone really. I had a distant relative who jumped, but didn't die, but ended up paralysed from the waist down. Make sure the building is TALL.

Can I have his stuff?

So aside from major depression, what outside influences do you think pushed him to the brink? He seems to have been very successful, no bankruptcies, company sold off, no legal mess, etc.

He was closeted.

The problem with taking a handful of pills is that your body can react really badly ... from painful cramping to feeling like your suffocating. You could puke them all up and then not have enough left in your system to kill you. It can take a long time to take effect, making you not only suffer, but giving time for others to find you and get you to a hospital. It's not like you just fall asleep peacefully in most cases... depends on the pills obviously. But over-dosing can be horrific. And it's anything but certain.

Suicide is the most selfish act.

R70 preach. I’m already sensitive to throwing up and I know pills would never work. Damned if I know what’s a good solution, though.

Oh fuck off, R71. Jesus Christ, WTF is wrong with you.

You know what's selfish? Demanding someone persist through unbearable pain because them dying would inconvenience you.