A female employee of the Philippine Long Distance and Telecommunications company (PLDT) committed suicide at noon today when she jumped to her death from the 15th floor of the PLDT Ramon Cojuangco Building along Makati Avenue, Makati City.
The woman has been identified as Dalisay Gatab, 39, married with children, and a native of Bocaue, Bulacan. She worked in the company as a project cost analyst. Gatab was said to have suffered from an illness, and her husband recently lost his job.
According to witnesses, Gatab ate lunch on the fifth floor of the building. She received a phone call and engaged in a long conversation. After that she went to the comfort room on the 15th floor and jumped from one of the windows there. A certain Engr. Noel Cruz tried to stop her from jumping, but failed.
Her colleagues were shocked with her sudden death as she didn’t show any signs of depression.
As Scene of the Crime (SOCO) operatives and the Makati police are investigating the incident, they are still not ruling out foul play. Makati Police Department (MPD) chief Sr. Supt. GIlbert Cruz said they are still investigating who Gatab last talked with.
Well, that’s all I know as of now.
I’ll keep updating this post as the facts start coming in.
40 responses so far ↓
Leigh // October 23, 2008 at 6:52 am |
The news is already on GMANews.TV
lambing // October 23, 2008 at 6:54 am |
ahahaha… alam mo nun nasa mataas akong lugar minsan pumapasok din sa isip kong tumalon… pero naisip ang pangit ko naman mamatay kaya wag nalang
sdemenk // October 23, 2008 at 8:19 am |
i heard d girl is married with 5 kids…
joansyndrome // October 23, 2008 at 9:32 am |
oh my…that’s tragic! it really leaves me numb sometimes hearing someone committing suicide.sobra.
i seriously hope her family’s fine..although duh! the way she died?fine? … recuperate perhaps from the incident…ill pray for her really…
sometimes, at my ‘this-world-was-never-meant-for-one-as-beautiful-as-me moments’, id toy at the idea of committing such act,but maisip ko baka ma balian lang ako ng buto at mabuhay na walang paa … a failed attempt of suicide and still remain in this world would be so much more tragic.
Niel // October 23, 2008 at 10:39 am |
It reminded me of a someone named Maningning.
Von // October 23, 2008 at 11:50 am |
People who kill themselves see this as the only remaining solution to their problems. People differ in their ability to handle the troubles that cause such desperate feelings. Many find it difficult to recognize and solve personal problems in a calm and ordered way. Researchers believe this inability to cope may be connected to biological and chemical imbalances.
baka sya ung sa PLDT Customer Service na ngmura sa Customer.. (^_^)
ngayon nya lang naisipan tumalon (^_^)
gmacomics // October 23, 2008 at 12:32 pm |
very tragic indeed! when depression leads to committing suicide. kaya magblog na lang sila noh kat. at least pede pa ilabas ang sama ng loob dito.
netzky // October 23, 2008 at 1:26 pm |
it was really a tragic ending to someone described as a “jolly person” by her peers. sana naman don’t judge her outrightly just because of what she did or how she chose to end everything. hindi pa alam kung bakit nya nagawa yon. her friends and colleagues have no inkling that she’ll do that. in fact she left some money to her friends dahil she’ll be celebrating her bday sometime this month.
K // October 23, 2008 at 1:34 pm |
Such a sad tragedy really.
Tayo talaga kahit kelan, di maalis ang chismisan hahaha. Uunga naman, we can never tell, ano kaya talaga ang nangyari?
Baka may tumulak sa kanya o kaya pinakulam (diba, Juday?) sya at di ito nakayanan? Hahaha.
In HK it’s very common, if a person jumped off the building, people normally assumed, it’s financial or mentally disturbed due to financial dilemmas.
K // October 23, 2008 at 1:36 pm |
…. naku baka nag bo-blog din sya? Baka dun meron syang last “post” about the suicide?
von // October 23, 2008 at 4:10 pm |
Ninety percent of the people who commit suicide have a mental or substance abuse disorder (or both). More than half of the people who kill themselves are seriously or clinically depressed. Although most depressed people are not suicidal, most suicidal people are depressed. Serious depression is considered a medical illness by the World Health Organization. Serious or major depression is a long-lasting sadness that doesn’t let up for two weeks or more.
bw // October 23, 2008 at 5:58 pm |
Baka may mental illness yung tao or maybe she was suffering from an incurable disease
Too bad because I think insurance companies don’t treat suicide as natural or accidental death kaya BAKA walang makukuha yung family niya.
I saw something like that on CSI—a guy made it look like he was murdered (but he really did commit suicide) so that his younger brother can get money from the insurance company. A very big sacrifice, but the investigators found out the truth so the brother got nothing because suicide isn’t covered by the older brother’s insurance. I do hope PLDT would extend help to Mrs. Gatab’s family.
ardhei // October 24, 2008 at 1:08 am |
naglulunch pa naman kami sa 9th floor of the same building na yan T_T tawanan pa kami may komosyon na pala sa labas
ice c // October 24, 2008 at 1:46 am |
well, all i can say is — let’s not comment something negative to her death. kasi first, we don’t know her personally. maybe yes, we might think na we cannot do such a thing. but what if we’re really in her position w/ the same emotion as hers? we’re all different kasi eh, every person has his/her different way to handle problem. & psychologically speaking, meron talagang person na may suicidal tendency once faced emotional distress. and for sure, she’s one of those. i first learned the news from a friend who used to work from PLDT and as i was told, masayahin syang tao. kahit na meron syang problema, she could still manage to smile & it’s hard to do that ha. di lang nya siguro ugali magkwento ng personal life kaya siguro yesterday, after talking to somebody on the phone, “pwede” na di nya kinaya whatever happened or whatever she might heard on that conversation. she’s a professional, she’s an engineer pa nga and her job is a project cost analyst. so for a married woman with a child, it’s hard to think of suicide unless, she had not get any chance to realize what she thought to do sa sobrang bigat na ng problem nya. so let’s still respect her na lang kahit na what she did is not right. we still could not judge her.
grayshell // October 24, 2008 at 2:14 am |
oh well,, i was deeply saddened hearing such stories as this… suicide was never a solution, but just start of a unending pain, crashing of bones, burning to the point of gnashing of teeth, because eternal suffering at hell… (i know some here understand this knowing for a fact that anyone who committed suicide will directly suffer at hell ).. haaay,, kakalungkot,,, sana foul play na lng ngyari… but enihow, sana malaman ng mga taong mag-aattempt p lng, na suicide was never a solution, there still hope, God will always be there, He is just waiting for you to approach Him… ;;)
HardDiskDrive // October 24, 2008 at 4:06 am |
i’m wondering… covered kaya ng insurance niya ang suicide? (meron bang ganun?) if so, then i’d say she didnt die for nothing. … 5 kids, jobless spouse…. she chose to die so her family could live. cost analysis, that is what she does best. we couldn’t argue with her. and we’re all going to die anyway, why procrastinate? … not everyone is that brave to take that sacrifice.
it just disturbs me that my religion condemns suicide when i know Someone got crucified with his full knowledge and didn’t act against it. one way or another, isn’t that suicide too?
Egay // October 24, 2008 at 7:23 am |
Nakita ko yung pagbagsak nya, hanggang ngayun naririnig ko pa yung 2nog ng impact nya, grabe ganun pala yung tunog, mga 10 2 15 steps ang layu ng binagsakan nya sa akin, Fuckin hell shet nakakpraning..
that’s bound to give me nightmares for an eternity if I were you…..i already saw photos of the body from the link I posted above, and it was quite a relief to see the body was intact.
Egay // October 24, 2008 at 7:28 am |
Kala ko nung una binomba yung PLDT, or sinasabotahe. Napatakbo kami sa loob ng Lobby baka me sumunod pang iba, grabe yung tunog parang me bombang sumabog, Intact yung katawan at wlang dugo sa paligid. I remember yung paghagis ng sandals nya pti nung id.. Hay Bad trip..
erap // October 24, 2008 at 7:50 am |
“An female employee of the Philippine Long Distance and Telecommunications company (PLDT) committed suicide at noon today when she jumped to her death from the 15th floor of the PLDT Ramon Cojuangco Building along Makati Avenue, Makati City”
-ANONG AN FEMALE?!?!?! BAKA “A FEMALE”, RIGHT? AYUSIN MO GRAMMAR MO HA BAGO KA MAGPOST NG BLOG MAY PICTURE MO PA…
Ooops, my mistake. My first sentence originally started as “An employee of the Philippine…….,” and I inserted the word female when I updated it a while ago, thus the error. I have erased that troublesome “n” now, and I do hope you’ll be able to sleep well now that a mistake of enormous relevance to the issue at hand has been corrected.
Ray Robin Solis // October 24, 2008 at 8:37 am |
I totally agree with ICE C!!! dun sa mga JUDGEMENTAL!!!! SHUT UP NA LANG!!! find out muna the reason!!! i’ve been a judgemental ass myself…
K // October 24, 2008 at 9:33 am |
OMG I saw the photos, it was indeed sad, my apology for my insensitive comments earlier.
**I cringed when people make a big deal out of small spelling error, obviously na typo mo lang naman.
kirksydney // October 24, 2008 at 1:24 pm |
Galing lang kami dyan ng tropa ko last last week because he had an orientation for Epldt Ventus. Terrible news. Tsk tsk.
Dori // October 24, 2008 at 3:30 pm |
To you Von….Upon reading your comment, I thought you were intellectual. Pathetic ka pala. You never even know the real reason why that woman committed suicide, yet, you had the nerve to make fun of her death?! Such a stupid comment. Really! If it so happened that this lady is my friend, I will hunt you down. Pea-brain!
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Von // October 23, 2008 at 11:50 am
People who kill themselves see this as the only remaining solution to their problems. People differ in their ability to handle the troubles that cause such desperate feelings. Many find it difficult to recognize and solve personal problems in a calm and ordered way. Researchers believe this inability to cope may be connected to biological and chemical imbalances.
baka sya ung sa PLDT Customer Service na ngmura sa Customer.. (^_^)
ngayon nya lang naisipan tumalon (^_^)
StealthAssassin // October 24, 2008 at 3:36 pm |
Suicide is the way of the coward. I’m not being judgemental but I am just sharing my thoughts (baka kasi may naencourage na dito na OK lang mag suicide pag malaki na ang problema, hehehe).
Ako, I also think of jumping off a building but I don’t really intend to fly. I wanted to float (maybe I’d try bunjee jumping, hehehe).
I’m from ePLDT Ventus, a subsidiary of PLDT and I was dumbfounded by the news. What made her take her life? Life may seem to be unpretty but if you’d take a look at it’s bigger picture, you’d see that somehow, there are beautiful things in it, things that will make life worth living. Pag may problems ka, it’ll be tough especially if you face it alone, if you don’t utilize and realize what resources you have, life would seem hopeless and we may tend to just give up and kill ourself. or Maybe Ice has a point that maybe the issue that she is facing right now is too much for her to handle. But then again, God (if you believe in God) will not give us burden that is beyond our capacity. I’d also like to think that there is still a way to solve her problem, but as human (disregarding the psychologically impared ones), we tend to choose “the easy way out.” Please note, I’m not judging her. I just feel sorry for her kids and husband that she choose a poor solution to her problem. I feel bad because I feel that she felt alone so she jumped off the building. I’m happy because we who heard about this awful news has something to learn.
@Egay: What an experience.
@HardDiskDrive: Di covered ng insurance yun.
StealthAssassin // October 24, 2008 at 3:46 pm |
@Neil: I also heard about Maningning’s suicide.
While I was thinking of comitting a suicide by strangling my self to death, (yes, you read it right, not hang my self but strangle my self, using my own hands. You should know that I’m just kidding. Hehehe)
Very dramatic, tragic, awesome. I dunno, parang if it’s a movie, it’s a nice way for a character to kill her self. From one of the articles that I read, the roof where she fell of formed something like wings around her.
But then again, I feel sorry that she died. It could have been the two of us, Lolz. She’s very talented and pretty. How could an angel like her take her own life (she must have realized that her future is with me, perhaps? Hehehe)
Hmm… “How could an angel take her own life away…” Teka, gawa lang muna ako ng kanta.
^_^;
HardDiskDrive // October 24, 2008 at 6:56 pm |
now that made me want to get back on our company’s agent if there’s any truth about suicide being covered in our insurance. he surely must just be kidding when he said we’re getting only 50% of what we’re supposed to get if c.o.d. is natural. for yearsss i DIDN’T want to know… whew! itchy.
pardon me for i must have been irresponsible in my post for unconsciously suggesting that sometimes it’s ok for people to commit suicide .but hey… at least i’m not the one making them heroes or saints.
(it feels odd i had to check my speeling and gramnar here)
anakngpiso // October 25, 2008 at 3:08 am |
syet.. nanlalambot ako…. ako naman nakakita na ng nakabigti sa puno… napanganga ako…
naku, parang mas makakapanghina yon……kaya nga ako hindi ko tiningnan kahit nandun ako mismo sa lugar na yun
tempt // October 26, 2008 at 9:58 pm |
@Stealth: I’m from Ventus as well. We all know naman kung pano mag manage ng employee ang pldt diba? and I think naka receive ka ng ng email about dun,, dahil halos lahat kasama sa loop. Analyst na sya pero magkano pa din income nya, pano pa kaya ung mga mas mababa dba? Big bosses lang ang may malaking profit dun.. grabe mag manage, d marunong mag alaga ng employees. I pity her. Mas nakakatakot lang, dito na ko nagwowork sa mas mataas na building, 28th floor. hehehe.
stealthassassin // October 27, 2008 at 5:31 pm |
@tempt: ok lang mag work, get under paid. just don’t choose the easy way out once you feel that the situation you are in is more than you can handle. There are other companies out there na pede ko lipatan. With my experience and skills, I’m sure I can find a better company than Ventus. I’ve been here for 5 years na, going six. I have reasons kung bakit ako nag i-iistay (and salary is not one of it). PATIGASAN NA LANG KAMI NG VENTUS. nyahahaha!
Nasa frontline management position ako. Isa sa unang kinakagat ng mga nasa rank whenever may mismanagement na nagaganap (plus affected din kami nung mga wala sa hulog na decisions nila).
@HardDiskDrive: wag mo pansinin yung mga ultimo spelling and grammar ay pinapansin. We all know that it doesn’t make that sense. Your message is more important than spelling or grammar (unless spelling and grammar creates noise dun sa message mo). Cheers!
hmmmm, i was actually hired by Ventus but I was immediately asked for a medical examination so I didn’t show up. good thing.
HardDiskDrive // October 28, 2008 at 2:54 am |
@stealthassassin na-amuse lang ako dun sa isang post. galit sa wrong spelling. hehehe. reminds me of videoke machines, may score pagkatapos kumanta. someone’s keeping scores din b d2, right minus wrong kaya? hehehe.
nways, hope ms. gatab is getting enough prayers from us for her trip.
peace peeps.
stealthassassin // October 28, 2008 at 4:25 pm |
@HardDiskDrive: He laughs at you. I laugh at him. you laugh because someone’s laughing at the person laughing at you. we are all laughing. nice, isn’t it? hehehe
internet trend // October 29, 2008 at 7:00 am |
what a tragic moment in her life. kawawa naman ang pamilya nya
Jefferson // October 29, 2008 at 12:07 pm |
Budlay na mag usisa sa pangabuhi sang tawo, kung nag suicide
Greatneil // October 30, 2008 at 7:48 am |
i know the reasons.
1. naalis sa trabaho ang PLDT security guard na asawa niya. dahil may nahuling officer sa PLDT na nagnanakaw ng kable at binaligtad siya.
2. hindi siya kundi ang anak niya ang may karamdaman. ayon sa sources ko, umiiyak pa lagi si mrs. Dada sa tuwing bumibili ng gamot sa mercury drug.
3. hindi na grant ng PECCI ang loan niya dahil nasa “Deffered” or limit na ang loans niya.
4. 11 months na hindi binibigay ang dagdag na sahod (CBA) nila ng PLDT , yun na lamang sana ang inaasahan niya
nakikiramay ako sa pamilya at kamag anak na naulila ni Mrs. Dalisay F. Gatab
stealthassassin // October 30, 2008 at 2:59 pm |
@Greatneil: Talaga?! Taga PLDT ka rin ba? Pati ba kayo affected nung changes ng policy ng PECCI? Kala ko kami lang mga subsidiaries yung may problem na ganyan.
I’m really sorry for her family.
rika // October 31, 2008 at 12:44 am |
palagay ko jan hnd xa nag suicide kc edukadong tao si ate dalisay..maka diyos,mganda ang pamilya well bonded sila at laging ngatutulungan…kung nagpakamtay yan sabog ang mukha nya at hnd sna open sa tao ang kabaong nya…maganda pa rin xa…so mag isip kaung mabuti dahil talagang my foul play na nangyari….tignan n lng nn ang mangyayari sa investigation…
rika // October 31, 2008 at 12:46 am |
Sabi nga ng mother nya na isang bayani ang kanyang anak..kya mag isip talaga kong mabuti wag maging judgemental….kya sna wag kayong magsasalita n nagpakamatay xa dhl hindi totoo un..
gmac // November 2, 2008 at 6:48 am |
nawala na ang rizalistang si kat… hehehe
lineman // December 18, 2008 at 12:46 am |
family problem, financial problem ano kaya reason?…
Jean // October 28, 2009 at 7:31 pm |
baka may incest na nangyayari sa bahay di lang niya makwento at di malaman ang gagawin. sorry ha, i could not think of more unimaginable situation than that.