Increasingly In Europe, Suicides ‘by Economic Crisis'

Posted: 04/14/2012 12:41 pm Updated: 04/14/2012 12:41 pm

New York Times:

The economic downturn that has shaken Europe for the last three years has also swept away the foundations of once-sturdy lives, leading to an alarming spike in suicide rates. Especially in the most fragile nations like Greece, Ireland and Italy, small-business owners and entrepreneurs are increasingly taking their own lives in a phenomenon some European newspapers have started calling “suicide by economic crisis.”

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08:24 PM on 04/14/2012
If these were Communist countries these deaths would be classified as murders to be filed in the Black Book of Communism. The people who arranged austerity knew very well that this would be the result and they pulled the trigger anyway.
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08:04 PM on 04/14/2012
This is very real, yet it is rarely talked about.