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Ten Millionires Who Committed Suicide

by Julian Crowley

We live in a society filled with dreams and aspirations of wealth, a society that likes to believe that money will bring with it happiness and success.
The following men were all successful businessmen who committed suicide. The millions in their bank accounts did nothing to ease their suffering…

10. Jonathan Wraith

Thirty-five-year-old Jonathan Wraith — a young British millionaire by virtue of selling his and his father’s portable cabin business for £30 million ($46 million) — was by all accounts a happy and well-adjusted young man. However, in 2009 he picked up his shotgun and shot himself, leaving no suicide note. No clear reason could be found for Wraith’s action, but there has been some speculation that he was extremely worried about his father David’s recent stroke. It seems that this may have proven too much for the young man to take.

9. Eli M. Black

Eli M. Black, whose death was immortalized on screen in the Coen Brothers comedy The Hudsucker Proxy, was a Jewish-American businessman and millionaire controller of the United Brands Company. An astute and forward thinking capitalist, Black’s career included stints with Lehman Brothers and then the American Seal-Kap Company, which he renamed AMK. The early ’70s saw AMK merge with United Fruit Company. With that, Black’s fate was sealed. His downfall was rooted in the discovery of his $2.5 million bribe offered to the President of Honduras, to reduce export taxes on bananas. Taking matters into his own hands before the scandal broke, Black climbed the 44 floors of his office building and leapt out onto crowded Park Avenue to the horror of onlookers below.

8. Huibert Boumeester

At 49, father-of-two Huibert Boumeester took his own life after becoming seriously depressed in the fallout of the £50 billion ($77 billion) takeover of ABN Amro by the Royal Bank of Scotland. The Dutch millionaire banker’s body was discovered in a woodland area several miles away from his home in London. A suicide note to his wife Frederique that was found on his body read that he could not “go on.” The coroner confirmed that Mr. Boumeester had ended his life while depressed, explaining: “He drove to a very isolated location in woodland, sat down and used the shotgun to end his own life.”

7. Christopher Foster

In August 2008, Christopher Foster, a 50-year-old British businessman, murdered his wife and daughter before burning down his house and killing himself. The businessman shot his wife Jillian and daughter Kirstie, prior to succumbing to smoke inhalation. Foster, wealthy by virtue of his company’s work creating oil rig insulation technology, was nevertheless beset by financial concerns. Despite being a millionaire residing in a five-bedroom country mansion, he was living beyond his means, with debts of £4 million ($6.2 million). It seems that, tragically, these financial worries may well have pushed him over the edge.

6. John Lawrenson

John Lawrenson was a successful businessman who lived in a £1.2 million ($1.8 million) mansion (the Old Rectory, above). He was healthy and seemingly happy, and had earned the right to enjoy the profits from a lucrative life in the publishing world. This all would have been fine, except for one thing: his beloved wife Caroline was dying of cancer. The devoted couple, married for 47 years, poisoned themselves with a substance bought via mail order from Mexico. A suicide note found near their bodies confirms the truth: Mr. Lawrenson could not bear the thought of living alone and decided to take the matter into his own hands.

5. Wayne Pai

Wayne Pai was a successful Taiwanese businessman, and founder and chairman of the securities broker the Polaris Group. In the wake of rumors of insider trading, the nevertheless well respected Pai was found dead in July 2008. His wife and members of Polaris’ staff flew to the outlying island of Penghu to assist police with their inquiries. Pai’s suicide came at a time when allegations were being made that a former president of National Chiao Tung University had been receiving regular payments from Polaris. Pai’s body was found floating in waters surrounding the outlying island.

4. Paul Castle

Paul Castle — a self-styled businessman and property tycoon who had met the Queen of England and played polo with Prince Charles — killed himself in 2010. The 54-year-old threw himself in front of a London Underground train, leaving no chance of survival. The businessman, described as a “workaholic,” had seen several property deals go awry over the last year of his life and had also lost capital in a gas and oil surveying company. Castle, who suffered from chronic heart problems and tumors, had been married three times and was due to be wedded for a fourth time, to his girlfriend Natalie Theo.

3. Peter Smedley

Peter Smedley was an enormously successful millionaire hotelier and businessman with a tinned food empire that provided him with a sizable income. He and his wife Christine — who had been married for 33 years — enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle befitting of their riches. However, Mr. Smedley was also an extremely ill man, suffering from motor neurone disease. He ended his life by his own volition, at an assisted dying organization, the Dignitas clinic, in Switzerland. In a further twist to the story, Mr. Smedley’s death was filmed by the BBC, with segments televised as part of documentary about assisted suicides.

2. Howard Worthington

In an alarming case of destructive emotion, self-proclaimed “lord of the manor” millionaire Howard Worthington shot himself with one of his prized shotguns just moments after shooting his lover Julie Rees. The 52-year-old English former businessman, who made his fortune in the steel industry, had been ordered to stay away from his £1.3 million ($2 million) country home after threatening her with a gun a few weeks prior. While Rees recovered, Worthington did not. Verdict: suicide.

1. ReiJane Huai

Long Island resident and computer software high flyer ReiJane Huai killed himself with a single shot in September 2011. The former president and CEO of FalconStor, a data storage company, had resigned suddenly in 2010 following a lawsuit filed against him. The millionaire committed suicide on the front lawn of the $2.5 million home he shared with his wife, ShuWen. The Taiwanese-born Huai — who had traveled to the USA to study in 1984 — had several adult children living in the US and was described as a “visionary and leader” by a FalconStor spokesman.

Psquare next

id4sho:
just a wish

I wish u good

Why no Buhari

bobokeshington:
baby daddy everywhere

No, I think he is married? Right?

id4sho:
cute, cuter, cutest. lol
NL, it's my birthday. Show me some love.

What u want from me?

Tracypacy:
Active citizens in your senators receive N13.5million monthly as 'RUNNING COST'. These are their contact details �. Call them to know how it is spent.

Thank u.
THIEVES
This is the kind of thing we should keep our eyes on.

Fine baby.
I lost track, is D'banj still OGA TITUS...

Innov8ve1:
Oh well




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Nobody will read this.
Try to be on the first page of a thread or don't bother.

Aplaudez:
is that all all you have to say
Heartless soul!

What do u want me to say?
The whole issue boils down to one thing (and nobody has said it so far): MONEY
Unless the guy goes back to having the kind of money he had before, HAPPY DIVORCE SOON.

UncleJudax:
Bla bla bla bla bla.

Abeg Pack well...all these archaic Analysts

He also controls INEC and has unlimited money.
Come and beat me. I'm in my house.

Aaronsrod:
This is now blaspheming. The Holy Bible is the inerrant Word of God. I stand proudly before every word written in it. Do you? Are you sure you are a Christian?

The holy bible is a BOOK that has been in man's hand for millenia and could have easily been corrupted. It helps Christians in teaching and edification but the ultimate guide is the spirit. Also a discerning spirit can tell what parts of the bible to discount.

R

MIKOLOWISKA:
no its not
forget yankee trying to trap man to serve the machine

It is not a piece of paper that makes a marriage. It is living together tying to raise a family. That's marriage.

blackpanthar:
EITHER you expect every human to be like you or you have a disgraceful view of HUMANITY.....


CAN flaws not be better?

why not go to school and tell them they are educating the wrong BREED.

Even a DOG can learn.... FLAWS are errors meant to be overcome after being accepted as an error.... STOP BEING COMFORTABLE WITH IT
sO BECAUSE we are human we do not attain or pursue perfection abi?

mtchew

All I know is that there are things beyond human endurance or resistance. Pretending there are not is hypocrisy.

superhumanist:
The same Bible that tells us how to beat slaves in the old testament?

Religion is the bane of the black man

Now u r getting it. There are many way off things in the bible. The bible is not synonymous with christianity.

blackpanthar:

Bros pls understand that Marriage is not SCRATCH MY BACK, I SCRATCH YOURS. MARRIAGE IS DOING GOD'S WILL IN SPITE OF THE OTHER.

As a real man in Christ, I Am to LOVE MY WIFE even if she is disrespectful.

Proud.

Rude.

I repeat I AM TO LOVE MY WIFE in spite of it all!

I am not to LOVE HER IN RESPONSE TO HER HUMILITY OR SUBMISSION.

Same for the woman in Christ.

If you are only planning on submitting to your husband when He shows love, then you are not WALKING IN THE SPIRIT, you are walking in BUSINESS.

Very clear stuff. (If you are both not Christians.... then you know what to do)

P.Harry

WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND THESE WORDS.... your life will take a brighter turn and your marriage will WORK.

Bros u r talking to human beings not saints

superhumanist:
Wow. The power of religion. Religion is the only thing that can make a black man praise his white slave master.

Religion is truly a curse on black people

Ignorannce. The truth is not praising anybody. Tell the truth wether it favors black or white
BTW the same bible also says there are no slaves or masters in Christ.

Cool

MIKOLOWISKA:
co habitation

Co-habitation is marriage. It is called common law marriage.

Rip

TrajansKong:
This is embarrassing.

They did just 'give us that part'. You are still preaching it...

You are exposing your ignorance of the fact that we were forbidden to read. A literate Black man ran the risk of public torture or death. They gave us the parts of the Bible they wanted us to know - all about service and obedience to Christian masters.Slaves were prohibited from attending established churches and there was enormous and occasionally violent resistance to non-conformists preaching to them because it led to more exposure to reading and its attendant dangers.

'Services' were held in the presence of a white man. There was no independent Black worship. That was the point!!

I have a strong feeling you've not spoken much on these matters to our brodas in the diaspora who are more closely connected through blood to these matters.

A robust and frank conversation with them may convince you of the idiocy and cowardice of your sentiments more than our exchange here...

Don't lie just because of this discussion. And stop talking about fringe abberations. Many if these slaves were house slaves. They not only gave them the bible, they taught them how to read it. Or do u think they learnt it from thin air? One sent his slave to study in England.
Many people, including many of our brodas in the diaspora, choose to maintain a warped and dishonest view of things. They'd tell u things like all white men are evil and no white man contributed in liberation of black prople.

Aaronsrod:
If my Heavenly Father says we must suffer in slaveship then it is well.

Slavery is sent by Jesus to bring us to him. Through this blessings we can now make Heaven.

Stop being hard to educate. Slavery and unbelievable atrocities were there long before Christianity. The missionaries who risked life and limb to spread Christianity to Africa were not into slave trade or slavery. Stop saying Christianity came through slavery. That's a pathetic lie.

CuteMadridista:
the hypothetical book I'm handing the hypothetical 10yo girl wasn't entirely based on paedophilia, there's some mathematics, government, history etc in it too so its fine and dandy

No, the over-riding spirit of the book is that a grown man should not be having sex with a 10yo. Why not give them only the part that endorses your action ?

TrajansKong:
Abeg!! The depth of actual depravity was unbelievable way beyond your knowledge and comprehension if you can say something like this. People were being farmed in order to be worked to death. Infants born from mass- rape were entered into ledgers as livestock by the men who fathered them. You know as much about the slave trade as you do about the Bible of which you've clearly read very little.

Slavemasters were NOT empathetic through Christianity. They were businessmen needing their livestock to obey 'in fear and trembling" from generation to generation. These instructions were ordained in the Holy Bible.

They did a good job.

You are an oustanding self-replicating example of their work.

Why do u lie to yourself. Did the slaves have to go to church? Did the slaves have to have Sundays off? You forget the same book also instructs the slaves that they and their masters were equal b4 God. The same book also instructs the masters not to mistreat the slaves.
Yet u insist they gave them the whole book because of the 0.0000000000000000001% percent of it that says slaves obey your masters.
Yet u have no explanation why they didn't give them just that part.

CuteMadridista:
What? They handed slaves a book that endorsed slavery and you're saying it like its a good thing haha

this is like me handing a pedophilia endorsing book to an ignorant and uneducated 10yo girl I'm having sex with so she can be comfortable with my having sex with her and telling myself its all fine and dandy cuz I'm teaching her to read in the process

I'm just amazed at how you keep shooting yourself in the foot it almost makes me feel bad

Make sense. If that was their motive, why hand them them the whole book. Is the message in the bible slavery? The message in the bible is SALVATION THROUGH CHRIST and it would be the greatest sin for a christian to keep it from anybody. Stop deceiving yourself.

Area fada
He managed to convey his message without meanness and humorously.

How is this news? How did this make FP.

CuteMadridista:
Yeah, obviously its in the slave owner's interest to give slaves a book that endorses slavery

You clearly know nothing about being a nominal christian. These were people afraid of hell and sin. And it'd be the greatest sin not to avail another the means to salvation. How come they did not give them only the part on slavery or just have them memorize it so they never learn to read?
They were compelled to be human and empathetic BECAUSE THEY WERE NOMINAL CHRISTIANS. Without Christianity the depth of depravity would have been unbelievable.