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Greek Suicide Rate Surges 35% In 2 Years
In a disturbing new report confirming "The impact of economic austerity and prosperity events on suicide in Greece," tough financial austerity measures in Greece have led to a 35% jump in suicide rates in a little less than 2 years.
As KeepTalkingGreece reports, George Rachiotis notes this surge in suicides (especially among men) mirrors a very similar increase in suicide rates from 1989-1994 in Russian men when the so-called “shock therapy” programs were being implemented.
Correlation is not causation, but... (please note when we use the word "austerity" we mean in the "we can't spend seriously crazy amounts of money even if we don't have it" way... which, translated, means "living within your means - no longer funded by insurmountable debt.")
Findings from Dr Rachiotis’ study are alarming enough, but they have been corroborated by a number of other studies, including a study by Charles C. Branas, MD, and colleagues that was published February 2, 2015, in BMJ Open.
Having tracked the suicide rate in Greece for more than 30 years, Dr Branas and coworkers found that the highest monthly rates of suicide in Greece occurred in 2012.
“The passage of new austerity measures in June 2011 marked the beginning of significant, abrupt and sustained increases in total suicides (+35.7%) and male suicides (+18.5%),” the investigators write.
Suicides among men in Greece also underwent a significant, abrupt, and sustained increase in October 2008, when the Greek recession began along with an abrupt albeit temporary increase in suicides in April 2012, when a pharmacist publicly shot himself to protest the austerity measures.
The report's conclusion is ominous in light of today's negotiations...
Our analysis points to a significant increase in suicides following austerity-related events in Greece.
As future austerity measures are considered, greater weight should be given to the unintended mental health consequences of these measures.
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I expect the USSA isn't far behind after the unaffordable care decision earlier.
There’s a simple solution to the Greek Debt problem.
Greece and the Troika should bring a GOAT to the Saturday’s meeting and fuck it taking turns. ;-)
Looney
They would spend three years negotiating who goes first.
Funniest reply ive heard in years!
We depressed some folks....
Why blame Merkel ?
They did it to themselves, and they are insisting on the "right" to CONTINUE doing it to themselves, with EU's money !
where did all the principal go the greeks got in the first place?
Spent wildly on feta cheese and olives. Oh, and Gyros. Those are good, too!
F-16s, Olympic stadium, Athens Airport, port facilities, Leopard tanks, Mirage F1s,
Heh, I think going last would be far worst than going first. Sloppy seconds indeed.
Greece's solution is pretty simple.
(1) Admit they can't be in a currency untion with countries, like say Germany, that have very different economies.
(2) Shank the creditors. Almost all of Greece's debt is now owned by the ECB and IMF. They were dumb enough to take on a bad debt, screw them. Maybe you offer them 10 cents on the dollar, after negotiating for 4 or 5 years.
(3) Enact the reforms the IMF/EU wanted after defaulting on the debt, that would be the ultimate F-U.
(4) Get your house in order, live within your means, and in 5 years you can go back to the credit markets in a strong position.
They shouldn't go back to the credit markets. They should issue their own currency debt-free rather than privatizing it to the banker-vultures. This currency should have a 1:1 fixed exchange rate with the Euro, and while the economy stabilizes currency controls should be implemented in order to ensure that deflation and capital flight does not continue. Soon enough, they should be on a much more solid footing.
(4) Get your house in order, live within your means
Motto of the United States of Insolvency
4-5 years of Zimbabwe like hell, THEN, sell all their assets, that will make the EU suggested austerity look like a GIFT.
NO risk of contagion after the weak links see what Greece goes thru ALONE.
Even if Greece succumbs to Russia, do you think Spain or France would want that ?
What Greece owes is the equivalent to change lost in the EU sofa cushions compared to continuing the bailout.
So, at this rate Greece will simply "solve" the problem?
Obama is a damn communiost monster, congress is worthless and the courts are all full of shit.
We're not at all. My brother just killed himself in January. Right on course.
My condolences.
Thanks.
Dear God I am so sorry.
A few years ago my brother and I got together and talked about overcoming all the sadness and horror we had as kids. He admitted to me he tried to shoot himself but in the last minute, moved and shot into the ceiling. He made up his mind to do it again, right, the next day. When he went to do it, he couldn't find the gun and was so thankful today because it would have been the worse mistake of his life.
I told him I had a terrible dream he might do such a thing and coerced a friend at college to give me a ride home. At 2AM I got into our appartment and took the gun and gave it to my friend. I never knew anything of this was happening 30 years ago.
We melted into each other's arms and just cried.
I don't know your circumstances or your brother's but please believe me I know despair and hopelessness very well and have contemplated suicide myself. I hope you can find some resolution in this and have others to confide if you need to. I went it alone for most of my life and that was difficult.
Your will be in my thoughts and prayers,
Miffed
So sad.
This is what happens when people put thier faith in money and governments, instead of God.
The Wise and Foolish Builders:“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” - Matthew 7:24-27
Sweet, something to read when the government has you bent over the barrel.
I usuually try and relax as best as I can.
I mean, you don't have to have faith in money to be getting fucked on a daily basis by the government.
Sure, religion can be like a bit of lidocaine rubbed on your backside, but it don't stop the fucking.
pods
The Mother of a friend of mine was a German war bride (married a US GI).
She and her loved ones went though some very tough times.
I've heard stories of just how extreme hunger can get.
Tales of endurance through extreme difficulty.
But the power of faith, hope and love can endure any test.
If you're still breathing,
Why, oh why, take your own life?
Because they feel it's hopeless.
They don't feel loved.
They haven't put their faith in what endures.
But it's never hopeless, until you take that last breath.
Then, it may, indeed be hopeless,
Unless you've put faith in Jesus Christ as your personal savior.
"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." - 1 Corinthians 13:13
If these fuckers are going to kill themselves at least take a banker with them.
Well shit, I am about to shoot myself just reading endless stories about the Greeks, I am surprised it only went up that much!
pods
Isn't it a bit hypocritical to blame Merkel for the Greeks getting themselves in a sh!thole of debt? People need to man up and take responsible for their own problems.
So how do Americans intend to repay China and Britain and Japan ?
With a delivery and the Detonation of Thermonuclear Warheads..You know...the Thermonuclear Warheads that China, Japan, and Britain paid for.
When and where do you want delivery of our repayment?
They will print a new billion dollar bill with the likeness of Mike Obama's angry face and pay that shit in cash.
Isn't it a bit hypocritical to blame Merkel for the Greeks getting themselves in a sh!thole of debt? People need to man up and take responsible for their own problems.
I do agree that people need to man up and take personal responsibility for their debts.
But when you induce others into a fraud to begin with then it does not exonerate you from the fraud which you are...
When are the Germans going to man up and take responsibility for perpetrating the fraud?
Loaning anyone or any entity capital WITHOUT doing the due dilligence of determining if they actually have the ability to repay that which is borrowed is a FRAUD.
And if a corporation or Government is seeking to use debt to enslave a population then that is as immoral as taking the loan.
There is an old adage which states that you cannot fraud an honest man. That is as true today when it was first uttered.
And you, personally, demonstrating YOUR SUPPORT for the Fraud of the Banks, are also just as Fraudulent as you are COMPLICIT after the fact.
When are YOU going to man up and take responsibility for YOUR FRAUDULENT ACTIVITIES?
I am not holding my breath.
I will rejoice on the day that YOUR ENTIRE FRAUDULENT AND CORRUPT SYSTEM BURNS DOWN, HOPEFULLY IN A NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST.
And you can be assured that I will do my best to help bring that to fruition.
As the saying goes: neither a borrower nor a lender be.
Interesting how those old sayings have been ignored as meaningless, quaint relics. Yet they ring true and stand the test of time.
Like lending to people they know are bad credits....?
Greek hospitals can't afford to pay for drugs or properly care for the sick. Now you wonder why the suicide rate climbs?
We unintentionally suicided some folks.
~ Sincerely, The Troika ~
Cumming to Amerika. The moron Jonathan Pollard Neocons at Free Republic prattle on about evil Putin for Soros and their hero Bibi. Those morons love Star Trek, MIC, NASA, Spielberg, Zollywood.
Meanwhile - Russia's average age for life expectancy is going up. It was down big during the z-oligarchs reign. Then Putin threw most of those looters out of Russia. Things started improving in Russia.
The USSA life expectency was dropping before Obaolacare. It will drop faster now.
Americans are TV and Zollywood addicted sheep who support the Matrix watching TV like Zollywood sheepz.
I will never be able to comprehend this. If things are that hopeless why not take out some of the people who are destroying your country before you go?
stupid sheep
+100
Maybe because they are not murderers.
Yeah but the banksters they get paid... And suicide... why not trying to suicide some of the banksters instead? At least you might get a shot before going out... instead of just wasting your death?
Ding! There's the answer. Why kill only yourself? Take some of the scumbag bankers and politicians with you. At least do some good in your death. I mean seriously!
Not so simple , Greece has sucessfully impemented Obama's gun control plan.
Wait until next year.....Burial business is probably a good one to get into right now.....
I have a greek friend. Apparently they bury the dead for a few years then go back and dig up the bones and put in a box. FWIW
Graves are on 10 year leases in Germany too
The institutions have decided a long time ago to destroy Greece. It has nothing to do with economics. Check the Talmud ,there , you will find your answer. Kissinger stated bluntly in the 70's, that the Greeks must be destroyed! "Greeks represent a threat to the new world order". "we must hit them in eir language, family, and religion.
Suicide is sin just as murder is. So at least take those that make your life hell so they can live comfortably with you.
keep fighting Greece! those who love freedom are paying attention and applauding you
Good for the banksters!
Less pensions to pay out,,, more for the banksters.
What hath Merkel wrought?
Part of the long term plan...depopulation.
Otherwise, concern about an increase in the suicide rate has never risen in her rat-like mind.
issue the arrest warrants
Do your country a favor and take some banksters with you! Especially the hooked nose, beanie wearing kind!
I read on a popular blog: "You know you're a 90s kid when you have no good source of income and want to die."
People are so much brainwashed in the West that they are in the state of human livestock. They can't tell what is fake; they can't figure out what the true aims of their lives are; they can't even discover what the real pleasures of their lives offer. They are dumb fucks and they deserve what they've got. The situation is even worse for those self-acclaimed middle-class farm animals. Fuck them. The continental thinkers of 60s are absolutely right: what we are witnessing is the end/disappearance of man.
Those committing suicide now will be known as the "early adopters" and will have alot of company in the future. Greece is going to be a sterling example of Thatcher's comment about socialism. They just happen to be the first ones to run out of other people's money.
Can I just interject that 3% of US GDP is in margin call stock market gambling?
Suicide + Murder = Greek Pension Cuts
Obamacare + Death Panels = Medicare Budget Cuts
Is that closer to home?
If things get as desperate to take your own lives my NSA, and GCHQ friends, could you pass a message on?
You cant be jailed for debt, well, at least not yet. Could you tell the child molesting cunts you work for that some folk will not go quietly into the night. Some of them, will take you cunts with them. Including those whom you protect. All of them. And this is no joking matter you fucking quislings, these are real people that have lost all they ever had, and some of them didnt have much. These are people that have lost all hope, lost the will to live you horrible bastards. These poor condemned souls couldnt see a way out of the problems they themselves didnt cause, but carried a heavy burden by believing the propaganda that they did.
How can you defend something that by all rights, is beyond the absurd?
These are people who have taken their own lives, and ruined the lives of those that loved them. The only consolation I can take from this is they did this by their own hands, by their own will. Could you imagine being in that place?
You cunts that caused this, before we are done, you fucking very well will.
Child abusing, nation wrecking, fucking criminal cunts
Damn fucking right you will, pass that on.
;-(
Bravo!
Tyranny is not a monolith, but a system. A system can be broken at many points. The more vast a system, the exponentially greater the points by which that system may be broken. Those points are vulnerabilities in tyranny's system, and opportunities for Liberty to take up.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
And a shout out to the NSA, CIA, and FBI: Like someone watching and listening from under a window to the love making of strangers, it is the watcher and the listener that is the criminal.
You post a lot of sense Chris, I would like to think I do. I do not post lies, I dont like lies. I would rather have a thief, you can catch a thief you see. You are a good one, you find the wheat from the chaff when you search the web, eh?
Anyhow, these fuckers never needed even know me, or the folk I know, and I am damn tame to the folk I 'Drink' with.
And I only drink with them because I was brought up and lived with them. When these cunts kick off, step aside. No one here will be topping themselves. And I do believe you know what I mean.
Best your way mate.
;-)
Thanks.
While I own an arsenal, and expect to be called on one day to utilize it, I believe that my greatest skill is "disassembling" tyranny, and then conveying the what, who, and where of them. Does NOT mean that I am good at it, but believe that I am, and am trying to become better. Writing here sure has made a difference, not that many care what I have to say, but the payoff comes in the face-to-faces with the sheeple.
Regardless, my fall back, when the time comes, is the taking up of arms with my fellow Americans against the tyranny occupying the American country, and oppressing the American people.
See you on the battlefield, or listen for the tapping out of my sign-of-life, "YYZ," from deep in one of Zion's basement cells in some far corner of the empire.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
I'll be going going away, mostly, for a while so as to get caught up in my surveys (research). Got three on tap: WW-I (Currently, I know the beginning, the end, and only a few things in between.), European history (Too much disjointed knowledge of.), and war, insurgency, and counterinsurgency (Starting with Boyd). Looking forward to it, as I haven't done a hardcore survey in a while, well, except learning Python in the past year. And I get to spend a lot of time in cafes, and what not, reading and thinking. Cheers.
If we could get the suicide rate to equal banker homicide rate. If only.
They should be directing their anger and frustration at the banksters, Like Goldman that got them into the Euro.
So Troika thought reducing population makes paying back public debt easier? Well done idiots.
If you must kill yourself, take a bankster, pol, and/or crat with you. Do mankind a service on your way out.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
In the spirit of, "Never waste a crisis," I carry around a few marshmallows, and a length of wire, just in case I come across a burning bankster, pol, or crat.
exactly, when someone wants so much to commit suicide, they should at least take for example Soros down with them. In such case it would not be a suicide, but a heroic deed.
Well with British Agent Schellnhuber's writing of the Pope's Satanic encylical on climate change just coming out, and with the Queen's German trip to tap Merkel on the shoulder, it looks like the British Empire is ramping up it's genocidal push to the next level.
That grand psycho dream of the Queen and her royal consort to depopulate the planet is in play in many places across the globe, and it seems they just lit the fuse on Greece.
...and they still haven't revealed their next ISIS/Nazi moves yet either.
This is nothing. Wait till you see real austerity, and the only way to leave Greece if you don't have a rich relative abroad able and willing to buy your family's freedom for EUR50000 (each) is to kill yourself.
Mad old Greece, walking the footsteps of her daughter Medea, is cheerfully slicing open her children's throats and tossing them into the grave she's dug for them, and, when she's done, will turn the knife on herself. Anybody who thinks he can stop her is a fool.
If anybody's reading this in Greece, don't wait for your turn to come around. Run. Now. Don't look back.
Socialism, it's great till you run out of other people's money, then you blow your brains out.
casualties of war. the triple entente is at war with greece. it is time for greece to defend itself.
yeah, thats a great solution, kill yourself instead of starting to fight the banksters and leave the poor women dealing with it alone! Sorry, but it seems men are the weaker sex. It is more and more certain that the Western civilisation cannot survive. At least Russia was saved by Putin. But Europeans are too stupid to vote for anyone like that.
Germany is not exempt from the wrath of the bankers. Sooner or later the creeping rot of the debt-as-money Ponzi scheme will work its way up to the "strong" economies of Germany, France, the UK, and the US. And the only winners will be the bankers themselves when they complete the fleecing of humanity by way of money that they created and destroyed at will.
That chart is sexist.
The International Mother Fuckers will institute a 100% inheritance tax on this news.
This chart ends in 2012 when everything seemed quite hopeless for everyone. Meanwhile, we've all become more aware of the relentless corruption throughout the system of "banking" and corporatizing the entire world. I'll bet this chart is significantly different since the new Greek government began fighting for what is right. How about a comparison through May?
KICK ASS, GREECE. They're done with kissing it.