Millionaire and Billionaire Suicides Just Starting?

It started with a French billionaire who lost up to a billion dollars to the massive Bernard Madoff ponzi scheme just a few weeks ago taking his own life in his own office building at the age of 65, and it looks like these financial hard times have claimed another tycoon billionaire who is struggling against the problems of today’s economy and facing what they feel like at the time are insurmountable odds.

It’s never worth taking your own life though, no matter how bad things get. Things can always be turned around and people can always start over, so just know that if you ever feel so low that you feel this is the only way out. Whenever I read about people taking their own lives usually due to a situation that often seems gutwrenching and unsolveable, but is, at it’s core, solveable and fixable, my heart goes out to them and their families because I feel like they just may have been pleasantly surprised at how resillient they truly are if they had hung in there to see it through.

The second billionaire who has taken his own life is a German tycoon (Adolf Merckle, a quiet and private man) that made his family business into a billion dollar empire. He was 74 years old and stood in front of a train which took his life. Hopefully this is the end of these kinds of stories and no one else follows suit. It send a message that things are hopeless, and obviously hurts a lot of family members and friends.