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Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

joanne — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:01:44 -0000

OMG!!..so coincidently, at the same dATE 8/9/2007 at 7pm or so, a gal commit suicide by jumping from 7'th or (maybe higher) floor of an apartment in Melaka.. the cause of her crazy action was, she was pressured by her parents to give up on her husband, because she married secretly with that husband of hers. she is one of the 4flat accounting student, age only 20.!!! She's a chindian, husband indian...ppl said she not bad looking.

i saw the police took the body (cannot see clearly coz she is in the black plastic bag already)..n that was around 8something. Heard from the ppl living in that apartment said that her head was sMASHED..=_+..my friend had the photo but, well i choose not to see, i cant barely see it la. partly felt geli, partly felt bad..like no respect..hm..

man..i wonder if it has anything to do with ghost month?..eerieeeeeeee

Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

thisguy — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:10:38 -0000

Liked the vividness of this post alot. A dozen other bloggers would've taken pictures and write a one-liner/ one para OMGOMGOMG entry but somehow your "appreciation" for the moment is quite mesmerising.

Here's a thought - we are - each one of us - in midflight on our way to the end. What was she thinking? Maybe that's what she was wondering too...

Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

Adrian C — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:38:52 -0000

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Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

ria — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:53:11 -0000

this is such a sad post. =( i could only imagine what you felt right then. *hugs* you're right there, lucky us who know what it feels like to love and be loved. there really is a need for more of that to go around. take care!

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foreverjas — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:51:10 -0000

your post made me cried.

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sarang — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:23:03 -0000

death is tragic but life is miserable

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bunni3 — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:42:11 -0000

*hugs*
life is short.. people say it all the time and only God knows why things happen the way they do. it is a shame that things like this happen but i guess all we can do is pray.

Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

Eggplant — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:58:08 -0000

I think Martian is glad to have you too, especially after that pool party tee hee. Hope you get lots of pool parties in S'pore as well.

Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

k0k — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:40:46 -0000

Last year, some bloke hung himself in my hostel, in a room below mine. His last words was; "Life is all about fitness. I'm not fit for it."

Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

JustAnotherTragedy — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 22:39:53 -0000

at one point of my life i used to feel suicidal. i guess if i was pushed a little further i would have attempted it but it never happened. then again even if it did, i doubt id have the guts to do it. i cant bear the thought of leaving my dogs and everyone else around me i love. haha.

Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

foreverjas — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:59:57 -0000

sad. life's so short. sad. sad. sad.

Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

smartypants — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:12:29 -0000

ooopssie..forgot to wear my 'pants'...signs of dementia...

smartypants

Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

smarty — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:57:20 -0000

your mastery of words always convey vivid and precise sensory details to readers. inadvertently giving out equally vivid & precise details as well as coordinates of yourself too often.....hmmm... be careful about this baby.

your good readers/friends should also bear this in mind. for e.g 3 floor above 13 equals 16th floor. if the newspaper reports the scene/place of incident, any cyberstalker; psychopathic, psychotic or obsessive could easily 'stalk' you.

maybe this talk of death/suicide is getting me nervous or probably you will dismiss it as signs of my 'tender' age, no?

love from smarty

Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

chris — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:46:29 -0000

nobody would want to identify her anyway... even if they knew her. Owning up as a neighbour or even as someone who doesn't know her but has been seeing her around would just spell trouble for themselves; that would be the mindset of Malaysians, even I'm not excluded, I daresay.

It's just unfortunate that this lady had nobody to turn to when she needs any, and heeded by no one as she was deluding herself into a mind craze... makes you wonder if you have been taking a good look at the people around you, be they friends or just passerbys on your way to work, to just stop and smile, or just give them a simple greeting to show that they do exist in this world we dare to call our own...

and maybe, just maybe, you would have saved a life from drowning into a sorrowful pit.

Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

ashleighhhh — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:07:16 -0000

FREAKY! i refer to the comment above mine.

i admire you, su ann. really. i wish i could write like you do.
poor suicide lady =( wish i could have done something for her too.

Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

nat — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:07:28 -0000

apparently she bought her outfit that morning and she's staying alone because of psychological problems. her children do not stay with her for safety reasons. she just shifted in early september, which is why nobody recognizes her. before she left she sent a text to her only relative, her adopted brother, thanking him for bearing her cost of living etc etc.

...as told by the guards.

you should have been home earlier. it was so weird just looking at her, laying there unnoticed in the beginning. and the process was....hmmm.

she lived 3 floors above you though.

Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

reallybites — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:36:26 -0000

you know i have this impression that if a person chooses to jump off some tall buildings, then he/she must have really meant it compared to errr other methods. coz once u jump, there's no turning back.

and i wonder how many of those who jumped off changed their minds as they flew.

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abby — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:16:31 -0000

so odd... a 30-odd year old guy fell from my 7th floor condo and died too. a note was left apologizing to his loved ones. this happened yesterday morning. really makes you wonder what went through their minds the whole time huh.

Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

heartless-usagi — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:32:17 -0000

"if there is anything that can deter anyone from suicide, it is love."

it could also be a reason that leads to it...

how sad.there was this one time a friend of mine told me someone fell from the top floor of his apartment.it turned out the person accidently fell,and wasnt commited suicide at all.the stories was like this.a friend of the deceased was waiting for him downstairs,asked him to hurry up.the guy went up to his apartment which was on the top floor,didnt have his keys with him so he tried to get in through the window or something [dont ask me how la.this was what my friend told me] and next thing his friend knew,the deceased fell right in front of his eyes T.T

Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

Michael — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:12:02 -0000

its sad cos ppl really just dont care much.
how much suffering, agony and pain. if its seems far enough, it really would not be your problem at all.
You are a kind soul, still being concerned at humans in a rather far proximity with you. But they are still many out there, and u cant do anything to save them.
It was just natural fdr human, to ignore.

Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

SzeWei — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:35:24 -0000

When I first read the beginning of this entry, I thought it was a guy. Someone who has lost all his energy carrying the heavy load of problems behind him.
But now, I guess that lady has lost all hopes and happiness in everything. She must have had alot of sufferings before she decided that dying was better off. I believe anyone who would attempt suicide are people whom this world matters to.

Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

Adrian C — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:11:28 -0000

there are many lost souls in the world. as Christians we can only tell people the good news of Jesus Christ. Our one and only true hope.

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Jun — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:57:55 -0000

maybe it's homicide?

sometimes, the power of love isn't strong enuf to deter one from wanting to go to the nether world. one of our much-respected professors committed suicide the same way as this lady did earlier this yr. he was well-loved by his family (which i suppose is the strongest form of love if love is to stop ppl frm attempting suicide), yet he still chose to go down (pun not intended ;p) tht path. i do think tht there's a complex web of reasons as to why one commits suicide, and us as outsiders, sad but true, all we can do is sigh.

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paupau — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:09:06 -0000

death is always difficult to think about when it's that close, physically or emotionally. you see death all the time in the newspapers and on tv that you begin to get a little bit desensitized to it, at least i know that's the case with me. it's weird how even seeing a dead stranger will put things into perspective sometimes

Re: What Was Running Through Your Mind As You Flew?

Aimee — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:04:23 -0000

i like this entry..
last week i read A long way down by nick hornby.

and i think you're right. people just weigh the pros and cons of living. and if death seems to be a better prospect, then some people, like lady in white, will have no qualms about making decisions like that.

like what dumbledore said, sometimes we have to choose between what's right and what's easy. maybe to her, jumping off the balcony was both.