Stress Blamed For Death of Freddie Mac Exec | David Kellermann, the acting CFO of Freddie Mac who was found dead in his home this morning, hanged himself, according to police. "Some neighbors said Mr. Kellermann had lost a noticeable amount of weight under the strain of the job, and some said they had suggested that he should quit to avoid the stress." Kellermann reportedly hired a security firm to stand watch outside his home after reporters turned up at his front door to ask about his bonus. Hope you're happy, Charles Grassley. [NYT, WSJ]
Are you a financial executive, partly responsible for the economic meltdown and personally poorer as a result? Well, Slate wants to know why you haven't killed yourself already! The Great Crash of 1929 prompted lots of suicides, including four newsworthy leaps from buildings; the '87 stock market crash, while lacking any exciting window plunges, can at least boast of a murder-suicide, when an investor killed a Merrill Lynch exec and then himself. 
On Saturday afternoon a young woman committed suicide by jumping out of the window of her lower Manhattan apartment, and because she was a beautiful fashion model, it's obviously much, much sadder than if she were a regular person, and must be analyzed and raked over extensively by journalists and bloggers in every corner of the globe. 20-year-old Ruslana Korshunova, from Kazakhstan, was a "gorgeous supermodel" who had appeared in campaigns for 
When you're seconds away from offing yourself, you probably wouldn't think of calling in to the "Opie and Anthony Show" as your last earthly act. Maybe you should? Yesterday the show's beyond boorish hosts, 
