<p>It’s a month old article, but it has an important message for everybody crying over a 3.7UW GPA.</p>
<p>[Why</a> Do Rich People Commit Suicide - Associated Content](<a href=“http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1672873/why_do_rich_people_commit_suicide.html?cat=9]Why”>http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1672873/why_do_rich_people_commit_suicide.html?cat=9)
"Several news agencies are reporting that David Kellermann, who until this morning was acting as the Chief Financial Officer for Freddie Mac (the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation), has been found dead. At this time his death is not being treated as
suspicious in terms of murder but as a suicide.</p>
<p>Here are several news agencies that are on top of story and the links to their articles regarding David Kellermann’s death.</p>
<p>[A</a> Life Lost in the Shadow Of Freddie Mac’s Turmoil - washingtonpost.com](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/22/AR2009042201185.html?hpid=topnews]A”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/22/AR2009042201185.html?hpid=topnews)</p>
<p>[Acting</a> Freddie Mac CFO dead of apparent suicide - Eamon Javers - POLITICO.com](<a href=“http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21559.html]Acting”>Acting Freddie Mac CFO dead of apparent suicide - POLITICO)</p>
<p>[Official</a> cause of Freddie Mac CFO’s death may take weeks - wtop.com](<a href=“http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1657033]Official”>WTOP | Washington’s Top News | DC, MD & VA News, Traffic & Weather)</p>
<p>According to the wtop.com article by an undisclosed author Kellermann’s method of suicide was hanging and the event took place in his private residence: “David Kellermann, acting chief financial officer of Freddie Mac, committed suicide in his Hunter Mill Estates home Wednesday morning. He hanged himself.”</p>
<p>As Kellermann was an acting Chief Financial Officer for a large company several questions come to mind, the same ones that always come to mind when something like this happens. Why do people who seemingly have it all choose to take their own life? While we have no information at this point regarding Kellermann specifically perhaps there is some insight from history.</p>
<p>We are currently in a lasting recession that is compared to the recession of the Great Depression at times. Seemingly every week, time and time again, major companies are reporting declines in profits. Even today, Morgan Stanley posted a significant loss.</p>
<p>It is known that people who seemingly are doing well economically in life often kill themselves when their economic interests take a sharp downturn. Will the investigation in Kellermann’s death reveal that?</p>
<p>In my social democratic view, suicides among the wealthy should be taken to mean that the American Dream is a bit of a fraud. Having a nice car, a nice job, and a nice home does not necessarily guarantee happiness in life. Material comfort is important in affecting happiness and anyone that has gone for periods of their life without material comfort will probably attest to that, but material success in itself can not determine one’s happiness.</p>
<p>Hapiness is found in personal ways.</p>
<p>In MacBeth, Shakespeare wrote that there was “no art” in finding the “mind’s construction in the face.” A man or woman’s internal emotional states can be masked by a smile and twinkle. When someone who appears to be in an advantageous position in life dies at his/her own hand, it is a message to all of us to look at our society and question if we value the correct things."</p>