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By Diane Sweet

From Houston, Florida comes this report of a couple who after falling on hard times financially and facing foreclosure decided their only option was to end their lives. They each left detailed suicide notes that included family contact information, as well as details for their funeral arrangements. It was more than a month afterwards before anyone became alarmed enough to check on the pair.

The reporter noted that his station doesn't normally report on suicides, but that the station felt perhaps they could use the March, 2011 report as a moment to inform people in need that other options exist.

There is no database that keeps track of foreclosure related suicides, and that is likely because it's difficult to label a death due to foreclosure alone, as noted in this research from 2011, conducted by a pair of economists who were able to tie health problems to the rise in home foreclosures:

Read More:  http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/death-foreclosure

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"Very Sad and Wrong!!!!"

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