Wagon wrote: » You sir, are an idiot of the highest order. Again, you aren't the sharpest knife in the box are you? It's about a man who was destroyed by the public. Well, if you are getting abused every day to the point that you feel the world is better off without you, it can skew someones view on what is selfish and what is not. People still can't get their head around that the man obviously thought he was doing something beneficial for people by taking his own life (again, getting abused frequently every day of your working week for something that is far from your would be enough to bring anyone down). The fact that people are still inclined to blame things entirely on him and not on the people who dragged him there, is fairly disturbing.
dr.bollocko wrote: » Folks lets not resort to any further personal abuse. If you disagree with the poster argue with the points they make. Personal abuse will earn you a ban as has already happened with a number of posts here.
Morlar wrote: » RIP to the family. Fitzpatrick on the other hand should be in prison. Can anyone explain what this is about ?http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/wife-worth-euro3m-as-seanie-laughs-all-the-way-to-court-2349465.html
Snakeblood wrote: » ...but I'm not sure I'd blame the people who were driven to insult someone else because Anglo Irish helped make them paupers. Well, maybe a tiny bit each.
kylith wrote: » It's not selfish to have no consideration for the people who found his body? or for his wife and how she's going to cope without her husband? or for his children who will grow up fatherless? or for his family and friends who will forever blame themselves for 'not seeing it' and wondering why he didn't talk to them about his problems? I have nothing but sympathy for this poor man, but suicide is never a selfless act, no matter what the person may think at the time. His family will never get over this, and that is selfishness on his part; ending his own problems, but heaping 10 times the amount on his family.
IvyTheTerrible wrote: » There are people going in shouting abuse at staff in all the banks. And knowing people in my family who work in banks, the people who give the worst abuse are NOT the people who are now broke. They are people who have money but no manners and are using the recession to hurl abuse and get out of paying. Genuinely hard up people are not usually as bad, aparently. Also people who work as cashiers are not paid huge salaries, and they have no say in company policy so they don't deserve to be abuse and spat upon (yes, that has happened) doing their jobs while the people who actually caused the problem never meet the public and get chauffeur driven to work.
Gummy Panda wrote: » Shows you how much the Irish public doesn't know how to complain.
latenia wrote: » I'm not going to comment further because I'm only getting people's hackles up and the aftermath of this incident is the wrong time to make this point. At this stage every single staff member at Anglo is fully aware that they're in receipt of stolen money-the honourable thing to do would be to resign enmasse.
kylith wrote: » Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. There is always a better option.
kylith wrote: » Funnily enough, I do. There was a time in the past that I contemplated it myself. I have friends who were preparing to do it. I know people who have found the bodies. I lived for a while in fear that I would come home and find my manic depressive housemate hanging from the bannister. Luckily, when I was thinking about it I realised what it would do to my parents to find me, and my siblings to live with the guilt that they should somehow have known and done something, and the fact that the people I would be killing myself to escape from wouldn't actually give a **** that I was dead. Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. There is always a better option. I'll thank you not to assume what I have a clue about.
Insurgent wrote: » You obviously don't know "full well" about suicide.
Minstrel27 wrote: » Stop kidding yourself.
deisedevil wrote: » It's got nothing to do with being selfish. Probably the most ignorant post I have read in some time. Even for after hours!
ejmaztec wrote: » There never is and never was any point venting anger on the minions, because any shady deals done by the hierarchy would have been buried away from prying eyes. People are better off getting organised, and trying to find a legal method of nailing the shady bastards involved in bringing Ireland to its knees. I get the impression that bankruptcy proceedings against the perpetrators, are being delayed, so that they can shift their assets around, and avoid getting financially wiped out. I think that anything that got "transferred" more than two years prior to bankruptcy gets ignored, and that most of the wheeler-dealing took place more than two years ago.
My name is URL wrote: » I don't see why the article needed to suggest that the reason he killed himself was because of the abuse he sometimes got. Many bankers receive abuse and don't commit suicide. It's a tragic story, as all suicides are.. but there's no need to put the blame on to people who have criticised the banking sector over the last few years, that's no way to deal with suicide.. by shifting the responsibility on to the wider public. Of course having said that, abusing individuals who were only doing their job is retarded.
Snakeblood wrote: » Who said there was a point to it? Whoever is responsible for it should be shot with balls of their own sh!te, I'm just saying I find it somewhat understandable that people are venting at a representative of the company that helped pauperise a nation.
Riddle101 wrote: » But this guy, he did have a choice and he chose the selfish way. So excuse me if I don't feel sympathetic to his cause but there is a bigger picture here. Something you and the other posters who I have quoted in my post, don't seem to understand
scientific1982 wrote: » Sean Fitzpatrick should be tried for economic treason.
gizmo wrote: » The article didn't really need to suggest it, the chain of events makes it quite clear what led to the change in his emotional state. As for the issue in general, one hopes that the "**** the bankers" attitude of some people may change to reflect who was actually responsible for the situation rather than the current stupidly generalised term which is constantly thrown around.
My name is URL wrote: » It's one chain of events.. nobody knows what else was happening in the guys life that may have lent itself to his decision to end it. I just think it's a bit rich for the media to be playing it up as an act of escape from the public when they've been the ones stoking the fire for the last 2 years.
Cheeky_gal wrote: » Your opinion is ludacris, t's actually sickening to think that that's your attitude. It's not selfish, it's a tragedy. You should count yourself lucky that you have never gotten so low in your life that you yourself have contemplated it, I couldn't even imagine how empty he must have felt. Imagine the pain in ending your life, it must have been going through his head for years. I can see your point on the family issue, of course it's horrible for them but myGod if they were able to put themselves in his head for one day to see what exactly he was enduring then by golly I'm sure they wouldn't have wanted to see him get worse and worse and worse. Some people get to a stage where they've gone too far imo, and obviously he was one of these people. RIP
Sticky_Fingers wrote: » +1, you hit the nail on the head with this post. As a country we have a problem with suicide, especially young people taking their lives. While I personally understand how people can feel that it is the only way out this post shows that suicide is not a solution in these circumstances. It is nothing more than the creator of problems and pain for your loved ones. I fear we are going to see the suicide rates in this country shoot up in the coming years. Remember that while it may not seem like it all your problems are small beans, you are going to be dead forever, don't try to cash in early no matter how bad the cards are falling because once your out you can't buy back in.
