Friday, October 28, 2011

TIL that 15 people commit suicide EVERY HOUR in India

This has to be one of the saddest statistics I have heard.

The poor farmer’s crop failed and he defaulted on the $6,000 loan he had taken to buy a tractor. The bank’s collectors hounded him, even hiring drummers to go round the village drawing attention to his shame.

“My father found it unbearable. He was an honorable man and he couldn’t take the humiliation. The next day he hanged himself from a tree on his farm,” his son Ram Gulam said Friday.

Hiring drummers?  Really?  Sometimes I can only shaky my head at the cruelty of people.

Suicide is never the answer.  There is help out there.

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