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Facebook worker dies at company headquarters in an apparent suicide
- counter2015 7y agoWhy flagged?
- adg29 7y agoThis sad news is buried here on HN but surfaced on my Twitter timeline. Surprised there isn’t more empathy or anecdotes going around to bring light to issues surrounding this situation. There is a real need to humanize work in our industry and heed mental health. Work is hard, and this lost life speaks to how terrible reality becomes when work and identity has is unbalanced, too tightly coupled.
- chrshawkes 7y agoWhy all the downvotes?
- buboard 7y agoHe worked for facebook, must ve been a bad person
- johannes1234321 7y ago> 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.
- chrshawkes 7y agoThat'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.
- DanieI 7y agoSchool 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.
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y agoThe people doing jobs more distant from “tech” don't technically work for Facebook or in their offices. At least moderators don't.
- DanBC 7y agoI 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postvention
- nakedrobot2 7y agoStill below the national / global average. I see nothing newsworthy here, just a very sad story.
- techer 7y agoMaybe some lessons can be learned before whatever average makes it newsworthy to you...
- kryogen1c 7y agoYour point is not valid because the headline is not "someone committed suicide", the headline names Facebook. The connotation is not that there are general mental health lessons, but rather implies there is something facebook specific. GP is pointing out that is likely false based on the stats quoted. This is not a treatise about depression, its clickbait against a popular-to-hate corporation.
- techer 7y agoFair enough!
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- np_tedious 7y agoAverage of what?
- jarfil 7y agoAverage suicides per thousand workers of a company, maybe. The US has an average suicide rate of 13 per 100,000 per year, Facebook has 40,000 employees and right now a single suicide. They'd need at least 4 more to meet the average this year.
- WalterSear 7y ago
- dosy 7y agoPerhaps it was someone well known? Why else would they be getting out ahead of the story? The first thing that crossed my mind tho was that a Trump-hater was so despondent that Zuck met Trump. The next thing was foul play, a whistleblower.
- rootinier 7y agoCan we stop the blaming here? Every suicide is one suicide too much. I know what this does to relatives and friends; my father committed suicide when I was 12. I'm 33 now and it still affects my life. If you know someone who appears to be depressive or even suicidal, try to be kind and supportive. It helps a lot.
- iicc 7y agoFlagged, because I think it's irresponsible to include the method in the headline.
- RyanAF7 7y agoFunny! As long as we never have a downvote or dislike button everything will get better. lol