Wall Street Related Suicides?

Ask anyone who survived the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, and you’ll hear tales of how devastated they were. Of course, media houses don’t hesitate to blow the effects of such periods out of proportion. After all, bad news sells, right? But before the crisis that ushered us into the 21st century, there was the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

From tabloids to TV, the consensus was that suicide rates were rising in the aftermath of the crash. Although that theory seems plausible, the truth was that the opposite was the case. One possible explanation was that people realized the importance of living in the face of adversity.