# Stock market crash and lost lives question **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 13, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-crash-and-lost-lives-question/774616 "2016-12-13T15:37:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-crash-and-lost-lives-question/774616/1 "2016-12-13T15:37:58Z")
Okay I did a little research and found this: > **[After the 1929 stock market crash, did investors really jump out of windows?](https://www.straightdope.com/21343548/after-the-1929-stock-market-crash-did-investors-really-jump-out-of-windows)** August 30, 2002 Dear Cecil, After the 1929 stock market crash, did investors really jump out of windows? You can read Cecil’s answer on the provided link … Wall Street and the financial system collapsed in October, 2008, but no suicides that time. My question is simply this … Do you think it will happen again? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-crash-and-lost-lives-question/774616/2 "2016-12-13T15:42:43Z")
Do you want to rethink your assumptions? [Great Recession Linked To 10,000 Suicides | HuffPost Impact](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/13/suicide-recession_n_5491687.html) ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-crash-and-lost-lives-question/774616/3 "2016-12-13T15:51:25Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Do you want to rethink your assumptions? [Great Recession Linked To 10,000 Suicides | HuffPost Impact](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/13/suicide-recession_n_5491687.html) That’s some link Telemark as I was reading it a big graphic splash of blood appeared out of no where (on the web page supplied, yuck) How about this one: [Wall Street and Suicide](http://www.cnbc.com/id/40841645) Wall Street and Suicide > [@](#): > > Statistics on suicides are flimsy (family members often don’t report suicides as cause of death) but after the stock market collapse of October, 2008 and until the day the stock market rebounded in March, 2009, evidence supplied by Google Trends suggests that there was a sharp increase in interest in people curious about how they could kill themselves. The bulk of these requests were coming not from Wall Street but from places ranging from Wisconsin to Utah as Main Street America dealt with the ramifications of falling 401ks, increased distance to retirement, and underwater mortgages. So, could it happen again? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-crash-and-lost-lives-question/774616/4 "2016-12-13T16:01:37Z")
Economic downturns lead directly to increased suicides. I think that link is going to hold in pretty much any future economic downturn. So yes, it will happen again. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-crash-and-lost-lives-question/774616/5 "2016-12-15T15:02:57Z")
Just in case something goes wrong Monday December 19th … Here’s a good thread to read: "How well do you think you could weather a “bad break”? [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=813475](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=813475) ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-crash-and-lost-lives-question/774616/6 "2016-12-16T01:50:36Z")
Don’t forget that this time the bankers were made whole. No one else was though.