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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Greece's rise in the suicide rate

Dimitris Christoulas is not the first or last Greek to take his own life as the financial crisis takes hold in Greece Dimitris Christoulas, the 77-year-old retired pharmacist who shot himself on Syntagma Square in Athens because, as he said in the note he left behind, he would rather die than scavenge in rubbish bins for his food, is not the first and will most certainly not be the last Greek to ...

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