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The picture above shows a man just moments before he committed suicide by jumping from the roof of JP Morgan’s Chater House building in Hong Kong, according to reports.
A man on Tuesday jumped to his death from the top of Chater House in Central, where Wall Street bank JP Morgan has its Asia headquarters, witnesses told the South China Morning Post.
The man, said to be in his early 30s, went to the roof of Chater House, a landmark 30-floor building in the heart of Hong Kong’s central business district – also near the city’s stock exchange – and jumped.
The incident happened between 2pm to 3pm, a witness said.
Several policemen were seen on the roof but apparently failed to convince the man not to jump, one of the witnesses said.
According to several JP Morgan employees, the man was a forex trader with the company.
This latest suicide comes after a spate of Banker suicide, which saw 4 bankers kill themselves in separate incidents within a week earlier this year.
50-year-old Mike Dueker, who had worked for Russell Investment for five years, was found dead close to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State.  Local police say he could have jumped over a fence and fallen 15 meters to his death, and are treating the case as a suicide.
58 year old retired Deutsche Bank executive William Broeksmit was found hanged in is Kensington, London home, the verdict was suicide.
Just a day later, 51 year old Managing Director of Tata Motors Karl Slym, seemingly climbed through a small window and jumped from his room on the 22nd floor of the five-star Shangri-La hotel while his wife Sally was asleep.
And within days of this, 39 year old Gabriel Magee was found dead on the 9th storey level rooftop of JP Morgan’s London headquarters after apparently jumping from the 33rd level rooftop.  Police are investigating the incident.
However, despite the clamour given to the deaths of these members of the financial services industry, far less attention has been paid to the rising suicides of those affected by the Austerity induced as a result of the banker created Financial Crisis.
In September last year, the British Psychological Society reported that:
“A rise in suicide rates in Europe and the Americas may be linked to the global economic crisis. This is according to new researchappearing in the British Medical Journal, which found male suicide rates began to climb in 2009 at the same time as a 37 per cent rise in unemployment and three per cent falls in gross domestic product per capita.”
Among these numbers were army veteran Mark Mullins and his wife Helen, who committed suicide together when they felt they were too poor to live through winter 2011. They had been forced to live ‘hand to mouth’, making a weekly 12-mile trip to a soup kitchen on foo, after Mrs Mullin’s benefits were cut, leaving the pair with just £57.50 a week to live on.
Greek austerity, which has been described by the UN as a humanitarian crisis, has seen suicide rates for the country rise by a whopping 47%.  More than 2,500 Greeks have taken their own lives since 2010. Deaths like that of a 77-year-old pharmacist who shot himself to death on Syntagma Square in downtown Athens in April 2013, and Dimitris Christoulas, who blew his brains out at the same place in the same month.
In austerity rocked Italy, financially related suicides have jumped 40%. In April of last year, a triple suicide was reported in the seaside town of Civitanova Marche, Italy. A married couple, Anna Maria Sopranzi, 68, and Romeo Dionisi, 62, had been struggling to live on her monthly pension of around 500 euros (about $650), and had fallen behind on rent. Italian austerity drove them to suicide.
In the US, the Financial Crisis saw a spike in male suicide in the US of 9% in 2009. And by last year, more Americans were killing themselves than during the Great Depression. In fact, more American’s now die from suicide each year, than car accidents.
So…if we are going to have a national or international conversation about suicide – perhaps we should start with the matter of multitudes of austerity ridden citizens being driven to their deaths by ideological austerity?