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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,440 posts)
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 07:38 PM 6 hrs ago

Days Before He Died by Suicide, Jeffrey Epstein Gave Specific Reason for Why He Would Never Take His Own Life

Days before Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide in 2019, the sex offender claimed he would never take his own life because, he said, suicide is forbidden in his Jewish faith.

In the Department of Justice’s latest release of files related to its Epstein investigation, prison notes from his time at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City — where he was held while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges — offer a closer look at his mental state.

The notes mentioned a possible suicide attempt on July 23, 2019. According to the notes, Epstein told an interviewers that "he could not remember what happened" on the day in question "because of his " 'sleep apnea.'"

During a psychological observation from July 26, 2019, it was written that Epstein "does not like pain and never attempt (sic) to harm himself."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/days-died-suicide-jeffrey-epstein-205112568.html

Make of it what you will.

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EdmondDantes_

(1,317 posts)
7. Sure, but it's hard to claim his faith is so deep and true that he'd never commit suicide
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 10:36 PM
3 hrs ago

Some people who go on to commit suicide will make efforts to hide what they are about to do to make sure they get to go through with it. Obviously others display signs they are going, but the path isn't the same for everyone.

Ilsa

(63,790 posts)
12. The "sin" of suicide can affect marriage-abilty of
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 11:35 PM
2 hrs ago

others in the family, depending on branch of Judaism, I've heard. I wonder if it affects business arrangements of close family?

soldierant

(9,261 posts)
3. Where did that psych observer go to school?
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 09:36 PM
4 hrs ago

Not liking pain is not a reason not to suixi3e. Many people suicide in order to STOP the mental and emotional pain they haven't been able to deal with any other way.

The ones who will never suicide are the ones who wouldn't dream of depriving the rest of the world of their wonderful presence.

stopdiggin

(14,944 posts)
9. that was just ONE observation (and more likely just a 'statement' taken down as attributed .. )
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 10:46 PM
3 hrs ago

within an entire interview/assessment.
And it is highly unlikely that any medical professional would (or indeed did) base an assessment on such tissue thin ...

I think you impute more here than is really there ...

blue blues

(17 posts)
4. He didn't kill himself
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 10:04 PM
3 hrs ago

He thought he was getting out of jail. With his wealth, power and friends.
I'm just saying O.J. got off
The real question is who ordered the killing?

ToxMarz

(2,733 posts)
8. I don't think liking or disliking pain is the driving force behind suicide, or the limiting factor.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 10:37 PM
3 hrs ago

stopdiggin

(14,944 posts)
10. you're correct. and also not the entirety (or even close to it) of this 'assessment'
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 11:04 PM
2 hrs ago

no mental health professional is gong to be taken in by such (facile) statements.

Takket

(23,440 posts)
11. I wouldn't even remotely consider any "faith" based reasoning to figure out whether he killed himself or not
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 11:06 PM
2 hrs ago

nothing that guy ever did had anything to do with "faith."

Kaleva

(40,136 posts)
13. A few people I knew who attempted suicide did it because they couldn't handle the pain anymore
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 12:59 AM
50 min ago

The mental anguish was just too much to bear.

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