Oxford graduate in fear for his job chose to take his life days before 25th birthday

"Apparently he donned a Hugo Boss suit with matching designer accessories, treated himself to a glass of champagne at the much frequented, upmarket City restaurant Coq d'Argent, and jumped from an eighth-floor rooftop. Style meant everything to him and that's how he chose his exit."

Priorities WAY out of whack. Someone should have introduced him to video games at some point. He obviously got the idea that having the "best things in life" was the only way to live, or life wasn't worth living. If we could only get the youth to think more about humanity instead of caviar, simplicity instead of complications, and love of society instead of love of money we just might have a chance in this century.

Stories like this sadden me when you see a young person die for the totally wrong reasons due to pre-programming.

On his Facebook profile, Mr Malde listed his main interests as "Las Vegas, tropical islands, financial markets, restaurants, nightclubs, property, Jacuzzis, steam rooms, saunas".

Very sad indeed. I wonder if he believes these things exist in the afterlife...

 I disagree. He had his priorities straight and best of all he didn't have to take anybody else's life with him.

 If I had to die, then that wouldn't be a bad way to go.

Originally posted by popinjay

Stories like this sadden me when you see a young person die for the totally wrong reasons due to pre-programming.

He attended Oxford so he had to have some degree of intelligence, some idea of looking past pre-programming.

If you look at anything we believe, however; we are all sort of pre-programmed. Our core beliefs stem from particular life experiences and situations which lead to our particular programming. However, as with a computer, programs can be hacked, infected and overwritten - as can our thinking, as can our minds.

It was his value system that was rotten to the core. You should possess your possessions, not the other way around.

He chose to remain attached to his possessions and let them, not himself, rule his life.

Dashing your brains out on the sidewalk below while possibly smashing someone walking by isn't "a bad way to go"?

I think you should reread his Facebook list of "favorite things". At 25, if that's priorities in life, this world is in trouble. All he craved was teh cashba. Even the way he killed himself was a testament to that.

Again, I truly feel sorry for him. He simply thought he couldn't exist in life and was a failure without "the finer things". Whatever happened to people just wanting to get a job, raise a family and live a decent life? Why does everything boil down to trying to get a G5 by the time you are 30?

He had it more right than all of us.  We should all have the choice of when we want to die.  In 10-20 years that might just happen...

Originally posted by n25philly

He had it more right than all of us.  We should all have the choice of when we want to die.  In 10-20 years that might just happen...

Yea I really don't see myself alive past 55 years old and this dude just shown me the way.

Judging from his death I find it hard to believe he had any sense of "Style" while he lived.

Yeah his corpse on the pavement and his brain leaking on his designer cloths surely show a person of perfect sanity and willing to go all the way for the "best things in life". Because it makes sense that the best things in life are immediatelly accessible in the ripe age of 25.

Originally posted by Dekron

Originally posted by popinjay

Stories like this sadden me when you see a young person die for the totally wrong reasons due to pre-programming.

He attended Oxford so he had to have some degree of intelligence, some idea of looking past pre-programming.

If you look at anything we believe, however; we are all sort of pre-programmed. Our core beliefs stem from particular life experiences and situations which lead to our particular programming. However, as with a computer, programs can be hacked, infected and overwritten - as can our thinking, as can our minds.

It was his value system that was rotten to the core. You should possess your possessions, not the other way around.

He chose to remain attached to his possessions and let them, not himself, rule his life.

 

The fact he attended Oxford means that he was a good student, intelligence is not really a factor since he could be pretty average and still do well.

In a way you are right, the brain assigns specific actions to specific triggers for better functioning. So yes in a way we are preprogrammed.

But suicide marks usually a long time of depression, so I am really curious to see his family and the envirroment he was raised in. Even if his belief system was rotten, killing oneself is not something that happens out of the blue. 

Not to sound like a dick, but the less people out there who must have designer clothes, champagne with every meal, and limos drive them around the better.

He should seek spiritual guidance or some counselling. Life is very precious its not compared to a video game that our characters resurrections.