In Asia,suicides rise due to financial crisis
“The situation is spilling over into homes. We see couples quarrelling when the real problem is job insecurity,” said psychiatrist Dominic Lee in Hong Kong.
Pinky Yung of Caritas Family Crisis Line & Education Centre said many people lost all or most of their savings. Others lost their businesses, jobs or were lumped with multiple mortgages.
Of the 2,301 patients the centre treated since mid-October, eight percent had suicidal thoughts, it said.
“Many of them were very thrifty in the past and they have lost all their money and the security that they spent all their lives building,” Yung said.
“Those with family support, hobbies and work cope better but those without get very depressed. Most are middle aged so they can’t go back to earn the money they lost. Their problems are now insomnia, insecurity and what is going to happen in future.”
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/specialfeature...
Gypsy - yes, very true.
But having said that, the NEA are all over the world and shall rule the world with their numbers in influential positions. It is those on poverty street that do tha drama and take paraquat. It's the disparity between the "haves" and the "have nots" in the NEA itself.
nicaq25 said "Recession drives German billionaire to suicide:... "The desperate situation of his companies caused by the financial crisis, the uncertainties of the last few weeks and his powerlessness to act, have broken the passionate family entrepreneur and he took his own life," a family statement said."
Committing suicide due to the crisis - very sad. But sometimes, some people feel they have no way out - like those who borrow from loan sharks, get threatened physically and/or family gets threatened. That's why - live within our means, however much or little we have. If can't afford certain things, just don't buy. Don't live to impress other people, be true to ourselves.
/And actually, to me personally, everything is in God's hands and God watches over us.
//nicaq25 - I also edited my postie ;0)
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Don't want no drama,
No, no drama, no, no, no, no drama
I edited my post for 1st line...must be a mistake to what I'm trying to refer here...well, who knows? flan maybe right. But you're right too, live within you means.
"I do live by the motto that pessimists are usually right, but all the great change in history was done by optimists" -Thomas Friedman
Recession drives German billionaire to suicide:
German billionaire Adolf Merckle, buffeted by financial turmoil and struggling to salvage his business empire, has killed himself, his family said on Tuesday.
"The desperate situation of his companies caused by the financial crisis, the uncertainties of the last few weeks and his powerlessness to act, have broken the passionate family entrepreneur and he took his own life," a family statement said.
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/542851-recession-drives-german-billionaire-to-suicide
Hmmm, at the risk of getting a lot of flack for being racist blah blah blah, NorthEast Asia has ALWAYS had major problems with sucide. For whatever reason it's culturally an acceptable way out.
i'm guessing impotence would also be on the rise.
Money isnt everything...but many live within this line...a family with mouths to feed, education for the children, a sick member, and other obligations...the previous job almost cant sustain expenses how much more after the layoff? I feel sorry for this situation. But not an excue to end one's life...
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz
Those lower middle classes who were finding it difficult to meet both ends before must have been short of a meal by now after the crisis.
I think, they will have many commitments and bankloans too for keeping up the life style..
Those ones who have surplus and savings after living expenses can say money is not everything.. for this segment..money is everything. But again ending life s not the solution. :(
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the end of everything??
"I do live by the motto that pessimists are usually right, but all the great change in history was done by optimists" -Thomas Friedman