Under funded suicide prevention hotline ringing off the hook

The current economic crisis may have contributed to some high profile suicides: the chairman and CEO of a major real estate auction house in the United States, a German billionaire who Forbes Magazine ranked as the 94th richest person in the world in 2008, and a French businessman who lost nearly a billion and a half dollars investing with Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff. But plenty of people of ordinary means are also looking at death as the only way out of their financial misery. As more people are losing their jobs and their homes, some are reaching for their phones. FSRN’s Kellia Ramares examines the role of hotlines designed to help people save their own lives.

Click here for the full newscast for Thursday, April 9, 2009