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- inactive, on 07/24/2008, -5/+86I have yet to see a house that is worth the price of someones life.
- brad3378, on 07/24/2008, -3/+65I doubt this would have happened if she only would have told her husband about the foreclosure.
Also, I could be wrong, but I thought life insurance policies become null & void in the case of a suicide.
Best wishes to this woman's family. - FidelBlack, on 07/24/2008, -6/+54I take it she doesn't read digg.
http://digg.com/business_finance/House_Passes_Home ... - dafragsta, on 07/24/2008, -14/+41It's a good thing that deeply personal eternal choices are held to your highly regarded judgement. Life is suffering, death is suffering, neither need validation from you to have a finite value. You are weak because you're horizons have not been adequately broadened. That's my equally worthless and arbitrary judgement.
- Meekus, on 07/24/2008, -2/+28http://digg.com/business_finance/Woman_kills_self_ ...
Talk about a fresh dupe story... - Cuchanu, on 07/24/2008, -2/+27Foreclosure didn't kill her, she had other problems. It's a shame she would do this to her family and even the people at the bank probably feel like *****.
- chubbybubba, on 07/24/2008, -1/+22There actually is a two year window on suicides on a life insurance policy. If the policy is over two years old then the life insurance company would still pay the benefit. They would tell us stories of people who would kill themselves in front of their agent a day after the two year window was over.
- fr3ddie, on 07/24/2008, -9/+29Well then you missed the Top 10 most expensive houses in the world post.
- jemka, on 07/24/2008, -1/+16not anymore
- rebelbruin, on 07/24/2008, -3/+18So sad...
- dafragsta, on 07/24/2008, -2/+15I never said suffering was a virtue. I think we spend our lives trying to avoid the suffering as much as we can, but sometimes the suffering of life is so great and the hole you are in is so deep or you are terminally ill and you want to at least put the suffering of life to an end. I think suicide is a very selfish decision, but it does not make you weak. It's also equally selfish to not be somewhat empathetic to what drove that person to that point and to feel entitled to that person's presence in your life.
- bicyclethief, on 07/24/2008, -1/+13Apartments aren't that bad.
- KenSPT, on 07/24/2008, -23/+33Why feel sorry for her?
SHE got herself into a house she couldn't afford and SHE killed herself.
Personal responsibility folks, this is nobody's fault but her own ... - firesphotons, on 07/24/2008, -1/+10Wow you people are cold hearted, you never know what life has in store for you. Many of you arrogant posters riding high may face broken futures. I certainly hope someone with a heart reaches out to you instead of saying something as course as good riddance to a nutcase.
- KenSPT, on 07/24/2008, -2/+11I get a kick out of so many people on this board, even when a woman commits suicide they try to blame everything else around her for driving her to that.
There are always other options available. Maybe instead of blaming Bush and the economy, why not blame her for not trying to look for a Plan B, C, or D and instead opting to take her own life. - nekaidesigns, on 07/24/2008, -1/+10digging up comments with at least a modicum of compassion. Geeks are a ruthless lot.
- Nothlit, on 07/24/2008, -2/+11Have you ever tried typing all the way up to the end of a line and seeing what happens? Miraculously, your words automatically wrap down to the next line... Try it sometime!
- sodabeast, on 07/24/2008, -2/+11How about buying a house you can actually afford in the first place?
- paynomind, on 07/24/2008, -0/+9I'm in the middle of it right now. I bought a house WELL under what the snake-oil mortgage salesperson tried to get me in. I could comfortably pay every month ontime. I didnt have any money in savings because child-support is killing me. But, bang, the company I worked for shut down and it took me 3 months to find a job, and 3 weeks after I started to get a paycheck. Now, I'm 4 mortgage payments behind. No idea when they come to sell the house out from under me. I'll be able to make a payment with this friday's check, but it will only be one payment. I didnt buy too much house. I didnt fall for their games. I just worked for a company that wouldnt let us in the front door one random monday morning. I did as much as I could correctly. I'm not gonna shoot myself, but I do feel pretty damn miserable about the whole thing.
- jeana900, on 07/24/2008, -2/+10This is really so sad. I also believe she should have mentioned it to her husband.
She may have been afraid to, because it sounds as if she had messed up a lot
of money somehow. I could not have done this because of a house. I doubt if
the insurance company will be paying off on this claim, and she may have died
thinking it would but the only thing I see she accomplished was causing her
loved ones even more grif. - VeritasAequitas, on 07/24/2008, -2/+10Yeah somebody forced her to go to the real estate agents office and look at houses, and forced her to sign the large novel of papers required to sign to buy a house and forced her to then not make the payments she said she would. And somebody pulled the trigger to the rifle that somebody took from her husbands cabinet and loaded. It's all somebody's fault.
and by somebody I mean herself. - kingmanic, on 07/24/2008, -1/+9Some insurance policies will pay out for suicide but you must have have and pay for the policy for a 12 month period. I guess they figure most people who commit suicide will change their minds in a year.
- xsecretfiles, on 07/24/2008, -0/+7OMG are you serious??
*Has been 2 years on life insurance - louiebaur, on 07/24/2008, -2/+9That sucks
- darkne55, on 07/24/2008, -2/+9I'm tired of seeing all the comments on these economy stories lately saying like "shouldn't have bought a house you couldn't afford" or "don't get credit cards if you can't afford them" and the like. Some people buy stuff when they can afford it, and then ***** happens and they have a hard time. Gas, food, etc is going up right drastically and some people are starting to have a hard time or even losing jobs. They're doing everything they can to make it through but occasionally its "so we can eat this month, we're going to have use credit cards" Not everyone blows their money and lives a lifestyle they can't afford.
- Nothlit, on 07/24/2008, -0/+6While you are correct that this is a dupe of the other story, to be fair, this was submitted before the other one made the front page.
- bigbri9, on 07/24/2008, -2/+8I'm guess after committing suicide, she didn't in fact find out that suicide wasn't covered...
It's very difficult to communicate with the dead. - purkel, on 07/24/2008, -0/+6Americans have just accepted that being in debt is the normal way to live. Most people dont have a choice and have no other options. But the problem lies with banks and our society as a whole forcing people into debt. Perhaps things will change now that everyone is getting burned and banks have got their asses kicked. Basically our entire nation had it wrong by going into so much debt.
- carbonatedh20, on 07/24/2008, -1/+7All that over a house? Geez.
- jokerhl, on 07/24/2008, -0/+6Exactly right. All it takes is losing your job and there are none to be found. I imagine there are quit a few working in the mortgage business going through this also.
- WiretapStudios, on 07/24/2008, -0/+5What, her brains?
- defy, on 07/24/2008, -0/+5How do you think she got the house in the first place?
- diggitydoc, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4yeah, you could always PAY your mortgage, or at least not let it lapse for 3 and a half ***** years....
i mean, just a suggestion... - Trifold, on 07/24/2008, -1/+5Protesting a totalitarian regime persecuting your religion...losing a house you couldn't really afford in the first place...yup, I see the correlation!
- IKORKYI, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4she left a letter, its criminal
- kingmanic, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4Or Medical bills. One of the leading causes of bankruptcy in the US. More so then losing their jobs.
- oldhick, on 07/24/2008, -6/+10Wow... Talk about self loathing. When any of you out there begin thinking that your house (or money in general for that matter) is worth more than your life, seek help. Life is precious and you can live just fine without a mortgage. You made some bad decisions and got in over your head... Let the bank take the house. Keep on trucking!
- TheThirdLevel, on 07/24/2008, -1/+5tmart - Even better.
- brokencode, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4Comparing a parent losing his or her child to a fire to losing a home to the same degree? Give me a break! That foolish woman could have at least had the decency to tell her husband about the situation so they can figure a way out of it instead of committing suicide.
- tmart, on 07/24/2008, -1/+5what if it was Oprah herself?
- auntazalea, on 07/24/2008, -1/+5I have great compassion for her and her family, having made financial mistakes in my youth and having tried to fix them without my husband finding out, I remember the horrible hopelessness and desperation which finally drove me to acknowledge my alcoholism. Now with 15 years clean & sober I don't seem to have that terrible need to put up a front to the world and pretend everything is great. I can ask for help and acknowledge mistakes. Nor do I ever throw stones because I remember that hell and I am just grateful I didn't do what she did.
My condolences to her husband & son. - Alegoo92, on 07/24/2008, -2/+6I know. Everyone's making it seem like it's the government or Wall Street's fault that so many houses are foreclosing, but it's the idiots that buy a house they can't afford on a short term mortgage, hoping to make profit on it when they sell.
Still this woman must've had some problems before committing this tragedy. - ordig, on 07/24/2008, -1/+5Statistically that is only 6.1 million dollars.
http://www.sachsreport.com/thehumanfactor2.htm
Drive through Beverly hills some time. you will see houses that are worth more than people's lives. - bestsoccerdog, on 07/24/2008, -4/+8She brought it upon herself. She shouldn't have taken out a loan that she couldn't pay off. It's that simple. I'm sorry for her loss, but these people need to think about all the harm they are doing to everyday taxpayers by trying to buy a one million dollar house on 25k a year income, and not being able to pay it off. We suffer the consequences. There's no one to blame but herself.
- neonoodle, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3but then again, I haven't met a person worth 6.1 million dollars either. That price is way overinflated.
- HillerMylife, on 07/24/2008, -2/+5Well, it is a little different. One woman was trying to pay off her house by scamming an insurance company, whereas the monk was protesting government-sanctioned murder.
- Linzee82, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3I don't know if you've done this or not, but talk to your mortgage company and see what they will do for you. Explain to them that you lost your job and it took you three months to find another one. I'm sure they would be willing to grant you a forbearance on the account for a few months. This should get you up to speed with your payments and avoid foreclosure.
Another big problem that some people are getting themselves into is that they don't want to speak to their mortgage companies and admit that they are having financial difficulties. Mortgage companies don't want your house. They want you to be there and be able to make the payments to them. Bottom line, call them up and see what they can do. You might be surprised. - alex7575, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3Oldhick,
You and I may not look eye to eye when it comes to politics, but I think that two logical minds cannot diverge that much after all...
But then there's digg, you get dug down for basically saying what doesn't even need to be said.
He's saying that life is more precious than anything in this, well, life. What did you want him to say?
"Sometimes life is so hard, and kinda sucks anyway, suicide is often a good place to look..."? - bjornski, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3@Arntialias
Yeah, nothing like losing a job that pays well. It's NO PROBLEM to take another one that pays half as much! We don't need minimum wage laws, we should be able to pay people EVEN LESS as the costs of everything keep climbing! Yeah!
Nobody should have to pick up 2-3 jobs just to afford a place to sleep.
But hey, as George said to the woman with 3 jobs. "That's uniquely American". - Spoomeister, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3Wow, that's ***** cold.
I mean, you're right, but it's still cold. -
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