MAN JUMPS AND COMMITS SUICIDE WITH HIS WIFE FROM HIGH RISE BUILDING

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Chiropractor Glenn Scarpelli, 53, and his wife Patricia Colant, 50, both jumped to their deaths from their former ninth-floor office building in Murray Hill, Manhattan early on Friday morning at about 5:45 a.m.

The couple, who recently-closed their chiropractic practice in Murray Hill, left suicide notes in which they said they found themselves in a "financial spiral". They jumped with a suicide note in each of their pockets, sealed in a plastic baggie so that they wouldn't get bloody after the fall. In the note, they requested for their children, Isabella, 20, and 19-year-old Joseph, to be taken care of.

Following the suicide, a close friend and fellow chiropractor Adam Lamb has come out to say that Glenn Scarpelli helped treat hundreds of 9/11 first responders at Ground Zero. Lamb told the New York Post that Glenn Scarpelli would work days and nights relieving joint pain from workers at the World Trade Center site after the 2001 attack. 

"We helped adjust for stressed and freaked out firefighters, policemen, anyone who needed help. He was just an amazing, amazing, generous person," Lamb said.

Before the couple took their own lives, it appears they prepared their children for how to cope with the loss of their loved ones. In an essay Joseph Scarpelli read out to his classmates at the elite Loyola High School, on the Upper East Side, in March 2016, the 19-year-old shared some advice his parents had shared with him.

He said in the morning assembly: "My parents repeatedly told me that I could wake up one day and lose every material possession and everyone I love, but no one will ever be able to take away my faith."

Classmates said that neither of the kids were aware of their parents' financial struggles.

"Their kids didn't know anything about their financial problems. None of us did. He seemed like he loved his job," a woman who attended Loyola High School with Isabella said. 

A photo of Glenn's suicide note had only some parts of the text visible. In it, he talks about how he and his wife "had everything in life", but that they "can not live with" their "financial reality".

The Scarpellis had a history of financial problems and had been pursued for dozens of outstanding tax liens by federal and city authorities since at least 1998. In spite of their financial troubles, last year Glenn gave $100 to a charity set up by chiropractors to help the poor in Haiti.