'Top Gun', director dies after jumping from bridge..

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

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© Tony Scott / AP'Top Gun' director dies after jumping off bridge
Aug. 20, 2012, 7:48 AM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Tony Scott, director of such Hollywood hits as "Top Gun," "Days of Thunder" and "Beverly Hills Cop II," died Sunday after jumping from a Los Angeles County bridge, authorities said.

The 68-year-old Scott's death was being investigated as a suicide, Los Angeles County Coroner's Lt. Joe Bale said.

"I can confirm that Tony Scott has passed away. The family asks that their privacy is respected at this time," Scott's spokesman, Simon Halls, said in a statement.

Bing: Tony Scott's films

Several people called 911 around 12:35 p.m. to report that someone had jumped from the Vincent Thomas Bridge spanning San Pedro and Terminal Island in Los Angeles Harbor, according to Los Angeles police Lt. Tim Nordquist.

A dive team with Los Angeles Port Police pulled the body from the murky water several hours later, Nordquist said. Scott's body was taken to a dock in Wilmington and turned over to the county coroner's office.
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I just do not get it that these people with both fame and wealth do crazy shat like that. -Tyr

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I just do not get it that these people with both fame and wealth do crazy shat like that. -Tyr

If he was a poor nobody would it make more sense to you?

[Gaffer]

He had apparently been diagnosed with brain cancer. He chose to end it his way.

[Nell's Room]

He had apparently been diagnosed with brain cancer. He chose to end it his way.

Then good on him for existing this world the way he chose. I hope he is at peace now.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Then good on him for existing this world the way he chose. I hope he is at peace now.

Don't you mean exiting?? For he no longer exists.--Tyr

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

If he was a poor nobody would it make more sense to you?

Maybe it would. Most suicides are depressed people. With wealth and fame one has the money and the connections to get help. Now that we know that it was brain cancer I see it as his decision on how he wanted to go, long slow painful or quick? He chose quick and what time to go. Actually took great courage IMHO.. Many do not have that kind of courage..I certainly hope that I never have to find out myself...-Tyr

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Maybe it would. Most suicides are depressed people. With wealth and fame one has the money and the connections to get help. Now that we know that it was brain cancer I see it as his decision on how he wanted to go, long slow painful or quick? He chose quick and what time to go. Actually took great courage IMHO.. Many do not have that kind of courage..I certainly hope that I never have to find out myself...-Tyr

Most suicides are depressed people..... one would assume that endin one's own life is not done absent some extreme duress, but I'd disagree on the courageousness of this man's action. On one hand, the brain cancer thing is certainly painful and perilous due to the whole, what makes a person alive, ie their consciousness, dying before the body thing. But to me, what makes an act courageous is the existence of peril or pain which can be lessened or avoided, but by doing so it would cause pain or peril upon another-- so you choose to suffer so that others do not. I can only assume the disease was untreatable, and that he chose to avoid the natural progression of the disease-- which was his decision and I accept that. But really, who did that help: himself or others? I'm thinking it was mostly himself; hence, not an act courage.

[taft2012]

IIRC, I read a few days after the incident that the brain cancer story was not true.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Most suicides are depressed people..... one would assume that endin one's own life is not done absent some extreme duress, but I'd disagree on the courageousness of this man's action. On one hand, the brain cancer thing is certainly painful and perilous due to the whole, what makes a person alive, ie their consciousness, dying before the body thing. But to me, what makes an act courageous is the existence of peril or pain which can be lessened or avoided, but by doing so it would cause pain or peril upon another-- so you choose to suffer so that others do not. I can only assume the disease was untreatable, and that he chose to avoid the natural progression of the disease-- which was his decision and I accept that. But really, who did that help: himself or others? I'm thinking it was mostly himself; hence, not an act courage.

I know of a person that shot himself to avoid his family having to suffer thru a long and exspensive illness that lay ahead for him from his dying with cancer. The note he left behind only gave that reason and it was early on in the disease where pain was not a problem yet. I viewed that as true courage and thinking of others first. You may be right ,he may have jumped from the bridge to end it all to avoid pain for himself and had no consideration of others in mind at all. If thats the case I agree it was not courageous but was still a decision he had every right to make.-Tyr

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

IIRC, I read a few days after the incident that the brain cancer story was not true.

Really, is that now confirmed that the cancer story was false?