NYU suicide
NYU suicide
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
#0NYU suicide
Posted: 2/7/05 at 10:45pmhey students or anyone who's in the area, was that a sucide at Mercer and Waverly that I walked by about an hour ago? I thought I saw a body under a sheet where there were a lot of police and caution tape. just a little concerned.
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
#1re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/7/05 at 10:47pmIt's been a whole semester and we've only had one suicide so we may be "due" for another. Not that that's a good thing.
#2re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/7/05 at 10:56pmI haven't heard anything yet, but sadly, I wouldn't be surprised. What dorm was it near?
#3re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/7/05 at 10:56pmOh, that's so sad. I hope it was something else.
#4re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/7/05 at 11:05pmWell, a death's a death and certainly not good any way to take it.
#5re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/7/05 at 11:08pmIt wasn't an NYU suicide. It was someone on Waverly. The ambulance couldn't find the apartment or something.
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
#6re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/7/05 at 11:08pmIt was on Mercer St. right above Waverly. I don't know what dorm that is on the west side but the east side of the street is an apartment complex i believe.
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
#9re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/7/05 at 11:35pm
Now that you mention it, the world is a bitch and all I feel is this pressure and I just can't take it anymore!!!!
just kidding
I am happy at NYU.
Someone once told me that a friend will talk you out of killing yourself and a good friend will help you write the note.
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#10re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/8/05 at 12:23amI don't think that is very funny. Actually, I don't think that is funny at all.
#11re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/8/05 at 12:25am
Anyway.
Bronx, you go to NYU?
#12re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/8/05 at 3:54am
Oh man....there were so many last year, it would be terrible for more!
There isn't a dorm at Mercer and Waverly - it's one of the NYU buildings, but I forget which one. I'm not attending NYU this year, though I did last year and had an amazing time.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#13re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/8/05 at 3:58ammercer and waverly.... the mercer lounge, torch club, student activities center, commuter commons....
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#14re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/8/05 at 9:36amI hate to say this, but as soon as I read the title of this thread I thought, "Another one?" How awful.
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
#15re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/8/05 at 11:30am
A friend who likes unPC jokes told me that.
Yes, I go to NYU.
I actually witnessed the last NYU suicide back in Sept and was interviewed by the Times. It was not a pretty sight. I didn't know spraying blood off the street into the sewer was so practical. You never know what is floating under our feet.
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
#16re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/8/05 at 11:34amYeah, we get a lot of suicides. I think many incoming freshman are cancelling their life insurance. I think you get a discount if you are in NYU. Sorry, I will try to stop the jokes.
#17re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/8/05 at 12:35pmWhy so many suicides at NYU? Do they teach them that there is nothing more to life than a college course? Are kids that stupid that they cannot see beyond the here and now or that there are other things they could do? Is it drug problems? Or is it something in the cafeteria food?
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#18re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/8/05 at 12:37pmDid you go to college, Matt?
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#19re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/8/05 at 12:41pm
"Is it drug problems?"
That would be my guess.
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#20re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/8/05 at 12:43pmOne of the guys who jumped in the library last year was a diver who was on shrooms. He jumped into the lobby because he thought he was diving into a giant pool.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#21re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/8/05 at 12:51pm
There doesnt seem to be much of a link in the various suicides NYU has had. Two were drug related, one was a girl already seeing a psych. Two were really before school kicked in, one was off campus. The only apparent link might be that once they saw one kid do it successfully, it proved their plans possible.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#22re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/8/05 at 12:55pmThat library is rather terrifying, but other than the fact that it seems to provide an easy means to jump (like the bridge at Cornell), I don't think there's anything in particular about NYU that makes it suicide-prone. What most people forget about randomly occurring events is that sometimes they cluster.
#23re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/8/05 at 1:11pmpopcultureboy - I did go to college. Two of them, as a matter of fact, one from 88-90 and one from 98-01 and suicides were something of a rarity in both cases. Why do you ask?
TheGaIsSilent
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/25/04
#24re: NYU suicide
Posted: 2/8/05 at 1:12pmHow awful, if it was an NYU suicide. My brother's friend (yep, I know I sound like the girl from Ferris Beuller) lost his NYU roommate to a library suicide two years ago.
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