I wonder, what made John Henry Newman jump from a ...

you guys don't understand depression. The feeling of hopelessness. I hope you don't ever have to. Maybe someday someone close to you will commit suicide and you will be left wondering why and what happened. I've known a few people that did it and they felt helpless and hopeless. Only they truely know how they feel. It's mean to say mean things about people that have died. I wonder how you people were raised.

wel from a proffesional medical background i would put forward the idea that he was probably quite drunk at the time. this often is what leads many suicidal people to actually jump when otherwise they were simply lingering on the edge. the actual thought behinfd the jump may not be logical to the rest of us as we can't see through his eyes, however if he cam back as a ghost i am convinced this is the first website he would visit and he would undoubtedly answer your exceedingly interesting question so that you could fulfill what this question set out to acheive.

I bet he was showing off for a hot girl.   

There was a documentary on Discover 7/4/08 of the brother of this man and the investigation of the death. The body was exhumed and blunt force trauma was on the rt. temple area of Mr Newman. He was injected with some drug and hit and thrown off the building. If you investigate many deaths when people are involved or working within the government, you will also see deaths that make no sense and most people don't question these incidents until a lot later (years passing) on. It happens a lot where the government kills these people for their own selfish reasons; look at president John F. Kennedy; a tragic loss that the public may never know the truth about.

I had just posted an answer and realized I made a major mistake of the identity of this man while reading the article of death; had a momentary lapse of reason, but can add to this due to a good friend of mine that comitted suicide, and she had a chemical imbalance and refused to take the prescribed meds and told me many times she wanted to kill herself. One afternoon she stopped by and said " I really think I'm going to kill myself" and I asked her to come in to have tea or something to drink (very hot day) and she said she had to go. Her sister came to the house the next day to inform me she was dead and I was completely stunned! I informed her sister of our conversation and I told her how sorry I was and now when I reflect back on that matter...... there was on thing that my friend said and it was " I reallly" and those words I think of often. Bottom line; if anyone tells you about suicide, stop and take the time to interviene because you never know when they will actually follow through.

"He Believed He Could Fly" or maybe that was the fastest way down, some elevators are just too slow.