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Re:Facebook worker dies at company headquarters in an appare... by chrshawkes on Friday September 20, 2019 @07:26AM (#21025394)
Why all the downvotes?
Re:Facebook worker dies at company headquarters in an appare... by johannes1234321 on Friday September 20, 2019 @07:47AM (#21025559)
> At least this person didn't hurt anyone else

Except

- the ones passing by while or shortly after it happened

- the people looking out of the window and seeing them fall

- paramedics and other rescue staff having to look at them from close up

- the people who have to clean up afterwards

- the ones who have to pass by that spot in future

- ....

And then: Not to forget colleagues, friends and family who lost somebody. Probably now with a feeling of "why didn't I help?"

Sad when people see no other way out than suicide.

Re:Facebook worker dies at company headquarters in an appare... by chrshawkes on Friday September 20, 2019 @08:37AM (#21025984)
That's not what I meant. I meant in the USA there is a culture of shooting a place up when you're depressed. Fortunately that did not happen, that's all I meant. I've had friends kill themselves. I've battled with depression and I've seen someone die in a horrific car accident right in front of me.
Re:Facebook worker dies at company headquarters in an appare... by DanieI on Saturday September 21, 2019 @01:41PM (#21036750)
School shooters don't fit a single profile. Some of them are well liked and popular like Jaylen Fryberg and the perpetrators of Columbine were bullies themselves rather than being victims of school bullying.
Re:Facebook worker dies at company headquarters in an appare... by DanBC on Friday September 20, 2019 @07:55AM (#21025616)
I hate this word and I avoid using it whenever possible, but there's work happening on "postvention" - an intervention after a death by suicide to reduce the risk of death and harm in survivors.

Having a loved one who dies by suicide will increase your own risk of death by suicide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postvention

Re:Facebook worker dies at company headquarters in an appare... by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday September 20, 2019 @07:48AM (#21025563)
The people doing jobs more distant from “tech” don't technically work for Facebook or in their offices. At least moderators don't.