Econo-cide: Financial Woes Turn Deadly (Recent Suicides and Murders Linked to Job Losses)

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Source: ABC News

Recent Suicides and Murders Linked to Job Losses and Evictions

When a major financial setback hits, some turn to family and friends for support. Others suffer silently, struggling with stress and, in some cases, clinical depression. Still others resort to dangerous vices like alcohol abuse and drug use.

And then there are those who do the unthinkable -- killing themselves and, in rare cases, their loved ones.

Today, with the United States and the rest of the world facing what many call the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, a disturbing number of people are choosing to do the unthinkable.

From California to Massachusetts, several recent suicides and shootings are being linked to people who just lost their jobs or their homes. Meanwhile, the recent suicides of at least three prominent foreign businessmen have been blamed on financial losses.

"There is very clearly a relationship between macroeconomic conditions and suicide," said Steven Garlow, the chief of psychiatry at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. "In times of financial hardship, financial distress, upheaval, there is an increase in suicide."

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