Austerity driving people to suicide

A 77-year-old man took his own life by shooting himself in the head on Syntagma Square in Athens on Wednesday. The retired pharmacist left a farewell note in which he pointed to the debt crisis as the reason for his suicide. The left-liberal online paper To Vima blames Greek politicians for such cases: "Our politicians bear most of the blame for the crisis. But they don't understand that their policies are only increasing the citizens' desperation and that people are sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss. They are driving an entire country and an entire nation to suicide. ... Those who are unemployed or have lost their jobs are at a dead-end; young people are desperately looking for a future, several groups are glorifying violence, the middle class is watching its prosperity dwindle to nothing and the pensioners are mired in everyday poverty. Society as a whole has lost its footing. … And people can't see any chance of things improving. They only see a political system that can't manage the self-destructive course it has taken."

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