Rise in suicides across Asia feared amid recession

The Times Of India, 3 Apr 2009, AFP
SINGAPORE: Carrie is a Singaporean housewife in her 50s, but unlike other middle-aged women in her neighbourhood, she does not spend her mornings
doing chores, shopping or planning lunch with friends.
Instead she sits in an office with other volunteers listening to calls from desperate people who are thinking of killing themselves, and tries to convince them that life is still worth living.
"When I take a call, I'll try to listen and empathise with what the caller is going through and I will remind myself not to be judgmental," she said.
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