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Suicides increasing in Greece as election nears
Following the stock market crash of 1929, there were plenty of rumors of bankers and the 1% of the time committing suicide by jumping out of windows on Wall Street. Never happened. Fast forward to the modern economic crisis and there are real stories of real people - regular people, not the 1% - who are committing suicide. In March, a Greek retiree shot and killed himself in a public square in Athens and now more reports of suicide are being reported, out of a country that is not known for suicide. And still no justice with the bankers? Why does everyone else have to pay the price for the crimes of the banks?On Monday, a 38-year-old geology lecturer hanged himself from a lamp post in Athens and on the same day a 35-year-old priest jumped to his death off his balcony in northern Greece. On Wednesday, a 23-year-old student shot himself in the head. In a country that has had one of the lowest suicide rates in the world, a surge in the number of suicides in the wake of an economic crisis has shocked and gripped the Mediterranean nation - and its media - before a May 6 election. The especially grisly death of pharmacist Dimitris Christoulas, who shot himself in the head on a central Athens square because of poverty brought on by the crisis that has put millions out of work, was by far the most dramatic.
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