The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people … - Abraham Verghese

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I have. . . spoken to the heads of various Wall Street equity derivatives trading desks and every single one of the senior managers I spoke with told me that Bernie Madoff was a fraud. Of course no one wants to take an undue career risk by sticking their head up. . . The fewer people who know who wrote this report the better. I am worried about the personal safety of myself and my family.

Abraham Verghese

The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?

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