i don't understand how rich people can commit suicide

[OverVolt]

Nope: He still had plenty of money in assets.

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/celebrity/robin-williams-broke-died-lets-end-rumor-please/

Yes yes, your Internets is better than my Internets I'm sure. I watched some hour long youtube video about his finances soon after he died. I don't think its that easy to just dump a 35million dollar house on the real estate market, nor do I think he wanted to put it up for sale.

I think at 63 he realized he wasn't going to be able to easily retire and keep making the alimony payments and felt hopeless. Just like the second comment, the house might've been worth XYZ million if he downsized but the upkeep on both probably had cost him a small fortune all by itself. The only way to unleash pent up equity is to downsize. Houses aren't really investments as much as forced savings accounts that you can't access unless you sell it. He was having trouble selling it. They've had to drop the price. So yes, I'd consider that money problems.

 

[Mixolydian]

Because they realize that money doesn't solve all of a person's problems

 

[MrColin]

Money does too buy happiness guys. You can only buy up to about $75k/year, which is not always enough to offset the level of suckage or loserhood.

 

[squarecut1]

WHO: One Person Dies From Suicide Every 40 Seconds

http://www.newsweek.com/who-one-person-dies-suicide-every-40-seconds-268523

 

[Leyawiin]

"Anyone who says money can't buy happiness doesn't know where to shop"

Lovey Howell - Gilligan's Island.

 

[zerocool84]

Because when you get used to a certain type of lifestyle and something goes wrong, that's when you can get depressed.

 

[SKORPI0]

"People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made." :biggrin:

http://www.eonline.com/news/576116/thanks-for-the-laughs-joan-rivers-47-of-her-greatest-jokes

 

[Sinsear]

It's so hard to be rich

 

[tcsenter]

Because they realize that money doesn't solve all of a person's problems

This sort of seems to imply that everyone who ends-up rich somehow set-out to become rich or ameliorate unhappiness with money. Lot's of people get rich because they were good at or pursued something they loved, and the opportunity to make money followed, often somewhat unexpectedly or to an unexpected degree. Not like they were 12 and said "I'm going to spend 10K hours getting good at this so I can get rich, because with money I can be happy", but rather "I'm going to spend 10K hours getting good at this because I like it." And so it's not that they "realized" their game plan to ameliorate unhappiness has failed. They didn't know they were unhappy to begin with, probably because they weren't unhappy or depressed for many years.

 

[Red Squirrel]

WHO: One Person Dies From Suicide Every 40 Seconds

http://www.newsweek.com/who-one-person-dies-suicide-every-40-seconds-268523

Holy crap! That's a lot. Sad really.

Maybe they should work on a vaccine for that. :biggrin: