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Searchers say they found body of missing student
Posted on Oct 10, 2009 by Admin.
A volunteer water rescue team found a body along the Cedar River this afternoon in Cedar Rapids believed to be that of missing University of Iowa student Jacques Similhomme.
Cedar Rapids police spokesperson Sgt. Cristy Hamblin said the identity of the body cannot be confirmed until an autopsy is completed to determine the cause of death and to make a positive identification. The Coralville and Cedar Rapids police departments have jointly investigated the missing person report and will continue to do so until it is resolved, she said.
Similhomme, 28, was last seen in Coralville Monday afternoon, and Cedar Rapids Police found an abandoned 2003 black Cadillac at First Street and I Avenue that was driven by Similhomme.
Cedar Rapids police say that Similhomme made threats to harm himself when speaking with his girlfriend Monday. Cedar Rapids police and fire personnel started searching the Cedar River Wednesday afternoon for Similhomme.
How very sad!
Prayers for his family and girlfriend.
I am so sorry that it turned out this way.
Let's hold those who loved this young man in our hearts tonight.
In my culture suicide is the most despicable act. I appreciate the fact that your primary sentiments are for those who must be most aggrieved. I hope my comment won't be interpreted as crude, my intent being to discourage such disdainful acts of passionate desperation.
People kill themselves because they're emotionally distraught and not able to make good decisions.
To blame them for this, is like blaming someone for getting MS or any other illness. It is the height of ignorance and cruelty.
I wouldn't dare suggest someone could commit such an act in the right state of mind. However I can't accept your perspective that the person who decided, and committed the act is blameless. Sick people could decide to harm others instead of theirselves are they still guiltless? More importantly isn't this an act we should discourage? I agree to disagree, I apologise if I have offended your sensibilities. I was afraid from the first to air an opinion on such a sensitive subject, and again I hope that the bereaved shouldn't suffer themselves with the guilt which they do not own.
You have not offended me and should not hesitate to air your opinion.
My explanation is made from a professional basis, derived from studies and practice.
i am so sorry i will pray for his family
This is a case in which the only victims are the survivors.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you at this time of grief.
This is so sad. I will keep those he left behind in my prayers
I hope this means I'm not so ignorant or cruel. Go on with your studies, tho I hope you shouldn't continue with such a precarious practice?!
You can always educate yourself, ignorance is not permanent and only lasts until you are informed.
Psychology is hardly a precarious practice, it is a well established science.
Psychology is conjecture, it cannot be disected or proven, it is as valid an arguement as whichever religion. Psychology has at least one advantage over any religion in that it has no laws, given one example contrary to its core beliefs, it is able to turn on it's own head.
One who puts absolute faith in psychology, a "science" that has no consensus, nor definite truth on any point, is truly chasing rainbows. Such a person must be incapable of thinking independently, a person who can absorb and regurgitate theories, believing them to be "biblical" truths.
It would appear that some would consider an education to be a substitute for thought. In many cases this may indeed be beneficial, as not everyone is capable of coherent thought.
Why don't you get your doctorate and then you are qualified to tell me what Psychology is.
Do you suggest that having a doctorate qualifies one to think? Does thought actually eminate from your framed ego? Do you even have one (a doctorate, not an ego that much is obvious.)?