Former Enron President: Jeffery Skilling "I Considered Suicide"

[Philosoraptor]

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."

[AlCzervik]

1. gee i wonder if this will be in the pre-sentencing report?

:sarcasm:

"As you can see your Honor, my client is not a well man"

[KingFlorez]

2. Why?

You didn't lose your whole life savings and retirment funds and then have only a small amount of social security to live off. That would be a real reason to kill yourself, not because you are upset you get in trouble for criminal acts.

[idgiehkt]

3. way too narcissistic to ever kill himself.

give me a break.

Am I supposed to feel sorry for him? Unreal.

[yardwork]

4. Cue the world's smallest violin

[AndyTiedye]

15. Here It is

:nopity:

[Faygo Kid]

24. I have one, too. SOB was ready to take millions, assume no responsibility

If these guys had it to do all over again, they would. So long as they could avoid getting caught. What a load of crap. Spare me.

[acmavm]

5. Can't you hear Zevon's 'Poor Poor Pitiful Me' playing in the background?

[BayCityProgressive]

6. I bet some of the people

who's lives were ruined by him did kill themselves or thought about it. Fuck him. Go cry to someone else.

[BlueEyedSon]

7. But decided it was easier to have that other guy killed instead

[corkhead]

8. Glad the indictment cheered him up. It did me too.

[Philosoraptor]

9. only after his indictment did he come around. oh brother

[undergroundpanther]

10. Fucking psychopath

pulling the mental illness card so people will pity him?

what a piece of Shit.

If this jackass has any mental illness at all it's a case of psychopathy and as far as I know psychopaths are the last people to want to kill themselves,they can't feel shame.Psychopaths have an inferior moral character,no real empathy or consience,they do wrong and don't care and don't who gets hurt,all they want is to get thiers and win and dominate. People like him, cannot be trusted or thier self serving or abusive behaviors tolerated.

[aden_nak]

11. Aden Nak: "I Considered Helping"

[johnnie]

12. Bullshit

He didn't have a problem when he was destroying people's lives, it all came when he got busted. I feel no sympathy for this asshole at all. I am sympathetic to people who suffer from mental illness, but this is just a coward who thought of suicide only *after* he found out he might have to be pay for his crimes. He is just a selfish punk who should have done more than "thought" about it.

Here ya go Jeffrey

:nopity:

[Behind the Aegis]

13. This is sad in so many ways.

What he did is beyond evil. However, some of the responses here make my blood run cold! Suicide, even for someone you think of as an enemy, is nothing to make light of...EVER! Someone else pointed out that his actions may have caused the suicides of others and that may be true. How would we respond about their deaths or thoughts of suicide?

Could he be playing the "sympathy card?" Perhaps. However, anyone that gets to the point of contemplating suicide needs help, not ridicule.

[bluerum]

18. He was/is depressed for a reason. He turned a blind eye to criminal

activity and let thousands of his employees lose their livelihoods and savings.

I would feel guilty about being responsible for such loss. He is responsible for all his own losses as well.

Had he realized his responsibility in precipitating so much loss and dealt with the guilt etc. - instead of denying it with all his being, then he may have been able to avoid such deep depression.

Whether he accepts his guilt and responsibility for such massive loss or not is besides the point. He IS guilty and he IS responsible.

If he chooses to live a lie and reject the truth then that is his choice. But when you reject a truth that has such personal impact, depression and "thoughts" of suicide are possible.

I feel no pity - the whole world was trying to tell him he was responsible - but he rejected them - yet again. When that many people try to tell you something - maybe you should listen.

He took the hard path and learned his life lesson the hard way. His pain will be a motivator in future life. I am assuming of course that he has started to recognize the hard truths and deal with them.

[Beelzebud]

20. Yeah he feels so bad he still says he's not guilty... n/t

[yardwork]

28. I don't believe him. That's why I'm not sympathetic.

I flat-out think he's lying.

[Behind the Aegis]

29. And if he is not?

I can't tell you how many didn't believe me...although, I had a plan, insurance papers lined up, and other things.

I cannot nor will not excuse what he did, but the idea that anyone wants to take their life is very familiar to me.

[dysfunctional press]

31. if i had known that jeffery skilling were contemplating suicide...

i would have been very happy to help him :evilgrin:

[Sherman A1]

14. Two options I like for Jeff Boy

Option one, sentenced to spend the rest of his life working at a fast food restaurant with his paycheck going to pay back his victims or behind door number two "Jeff Boy, here is a stick and there is one of the world's many minefields that needs to be cleared, now get to work and have a nice day."

[Faygo Kid]

25. Not minefields. That's W's job. Jeffrey needs to work with the poor.

That's my sentence. Learn, Jeffrey, that the poor are actually people. Human. Be one of them. Even those of other races! Put your talents to work, honestly (if you can) on behalf of real human beings, and despite the Bush Administration, yes, poor people are human beings. For about 10 years, and if you are truly a human being, you will make it a life sentence.

[bluerum]

16. Awww shucks. Now I feel bad. He couldn't buy his pastey white ass

out of this one.

What is ShrubMerica coming to when the super rich can't buy their way out of guilt?

[Deja Q]

17. Duplicate?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1449814

[Beelzebud]

19. He'd find a way to fuck that up too.

[librechik]

21. suicide, yes, but repenting, recanting and repaying? Forget it n/t

[ThoughtCriminal]

22. There's "Suicide", and then there's "Apparent Suicide"

See "J. Clifford Baxter"

Skilling probably knows some people that can "arrange" suicides.

[peekaloo]

32. I thought the same thing.

in Delay's former (oh I lurve saying former) district, too.

[LouisianaLiberal]

23. This sounds like an attempt at gaining "Grandma Millie's" empathy.

Maybe Grandma Millie would feel empathy. I cannot. The world can be a cold place, and there are millions, or billions of people who deserve it before him.

He created this situation, and apparently now feels sorry for himself rather than his many victims. Rob millions of people by manipulating energy prices, deprive thousands of investors of their retirement - and he is the victim. Typical.

[bluestateguy]

26. Then why was the death penalty not pursued by prosecutors?

[wain]

27. Self-serving statement

Why would anyone want to broadcast worldwide that suicide was an option? Will he hold his breath 'til he gets a light sentence and fine?

[malaise]

30. I give a fugg

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Hubert Flottz]

33. He is remorseful now...

because he thinks the judge will ease up when he says he's sorry he did it. I think he is sorry...that he got caught! He went right on building his multi million dollar house in Florida, showing little remorse, right after Enron crashed.

"That's when I started climbing back." He thinks he's headed back to the top again? There are people rotting in prisons all over America for stealing a fraction of what this pig stole. Is he in some way, better than they?

Edit...I can tell him where to look for Sympathy...It's located in the dictionary, between sh*t and syphilis.