economic and financial crisis turns into suicide

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http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/19-09-2008/106411-crisis-0

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081007/ap_on_re_us/bodies_found

what has this come down to?
It hasn't really affected me in any way i guess, i.e. in a way that is quite visible but then again i'm not investing and holding loans just yet.

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Rajaram wrote in his suicide letter that he felt he had two options — to kill himself or to kill himself and his family — and decided the second option was more honorable, Moore said.

Err...

Rajaram had sold the house for $750,000 after paying $274,000 for it nine years earlier, the newspaper said. The Times also said he was reported to have made more than $1 million in 2001 after investing in a venture fund called NanoUniverse.

Huh? Then...

"He would miss phone calls and miss meetings and sometimes couldn't be found for a couple of days," Robinson said. "There obviously was some kind of under-story to his life that we weren't aware of."

Hmm... I don't think the financial crisis is the main culprit here. Just a guess.