ONE of the saddest consequences of the economic crisis ravaging Greece is that suicide has risen steadily in a country where the number of people taking their own life used to be comparatively low. The official statistics are bad enough, but they almost certainly under-state the phenomenon. In 2011 it was recorded that 393 Greek men and 84 women had taken their own lives; that was up from 336 men and 41 women in 2010. Klimaka, a Greek NGO which drew attention to these figures, reckons that serious suicide attempts (regardless of the outcome) are 15-20 times more frequent than recorded suicides.
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