What was the suicide rate during the Great Depression?

Answer 1

There were major parts to the Great Depression like the suicide deaths,unemployment issues, and bankruptcy.

23,000 suicide deaths in the first year

20,000 people were laid off everyday

20,000 companies filed bankruptcy

1,616 banks went bankrupt

and 1/20 farmers were kicked off their land and the horrible day the Stock Market crashed was called "Black Tuesday"

Answer 2

The price of stock for the Union Cigar Company collapsed from $113.50 to $4 in just one day following the Crash of the Stock Market in 1929. The President of the company jumped to his death from a hotel room. That incident helped fuel a legend that the rich were shouting "Ruined!'" as they leaped from high buildings during 1929 and 1930. Cartoons and newspapers had a field day, but the truth was not many wealthy jumped, but tried to work to save their companies. A study found more suicides in the month prior to the crash than after.

While the middle class saw many of their numbers ruined financially, the very rich suffered little more than a loss in paper wealth and not poverty. Still, the monied class was stunned by the Depression. The rich feared FDR more than the Depression. By 1936 "That man in the White House" was being called a traitor to his class. By 1937, most of the wealthy were living comfortably again. Stock prices had started going up and the rich found new entertainment in the "Speakeasies" brought about by prohibition. In "Cafe Society" the rich, young, and beautiful took center stage in the wealthy society. Like today's fascination with the young, "beautiful" movie stars and musicians and singers, the middle and lower class of the 1930s became fascinated with the wealthy foreigners who came to America to join the upper classes in wedding, dining, clubbing, and enjoying their wealth during the Depression.