Srila Prabhupada: “Otherwise, why millionaires are committing suicide? He has got money. But they do not know that any amount of material comforts will not make them happy. That is not possible. So we have repeatedly discussed this fact, like India, it is advertised as very poor country. But still, majority of the people in India, they are happy. People do not know. Although materially they haven’t got possession… They have got only two cloth or even one cloth. In the village you will find, they are so poverty-stricken. But still, they are following the Vedic principles, taking bath early in the morning, going to their business, whatever they get, eating, husband, wife, children. They are happy. People say “Primitive.” But you want, after all, happiness. Primitive or advanced, what is that? In advanced civilization, if you commit suicide, why not primitive? So they do not know. They do not know what is actual happiness. Therefore the struggle is going on. They do not know. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnm [SB 7.5.31].”
Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.3.23
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Los Angeles, September 28, 1972
German industrial mogul Adolf Merckle, 74, committed suicide on Monday after his group of companies got into trouble as a result of the financial crisis, his family said on Tuesday.
Merckle was run over by a train near his home in southern Germany, close to the city of Ulm, police said.
He left his family a farewell letter in which he apologized for his suicide but gave no reason for it, according to information obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE.
Merckle headed a business group with about 100,000 employees and €30 billion ($40.2 billion) in annual turnover.
(article source : Spiegel online)
pamho agtACBSP,SAPHALA EKADASI KI JAI,thank you for posting this article,unfortunately this is the sad history of the so called rich people in the material world they can’t hold all the stealing reactions therefore they make suicide they think better dead then to live in that stressful situation,SRILA PRABHUPADA also said how long you want still to live in this suffering miserable condition?that’s not allowed too you have to get out to leave whatever you got or stole to the supreme personality of godhead illegally,one life is nothing so many lives already gone by dying and the come alive again trapped in the same mistake punas punah carvita carvananam,to become a krsna consciousness living entity is very important that’s the real eternal huge wealth which is never effect by nothing including suicide,when someone get effect by the negative side of his sinful activities is because in the material wolrd everything is meant to forget god and more temporary material wealth one get and more one forget god by thinking negatively,unless this rich man engage all his wealth in the service of the supreme proprietor he can’t never be able to enjoy it by ending his life worse then a miserable wretch even if is very well know as a millionary person but the gunas and karma of the perfect law never look all this fake upadhi designations which exist only within a short period of time in the material world,therefore they way how we will depart from this world of living dead is more important of the way how we came in,almost everyone born in ignorance full up of duality say the SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA,therefore all the intelligent class of living entinties ask god to steal them completely instead of stealing what belong to god by ending the life through suicide as we noticed from this article above,forgetting of being a lovely divine creation by getting entagled in the so called maya sukaya flickering happiness bring people to depression to not say suicide, the only way out is harinam eva kevalam to chant hare krsna maha mantra early in the morning as the best remedy to all these false proprietorship who forgot the real business of life by claiming they are rich men, astrologers, diksa kan-gurus, hatha bogis etc.. all of them are simply wasting time by chew the chewed without getting any taste anymore but only suffering padam padam yad vipadam be aware of fake owners like f-iskcon because all of them already made spiritual suicide by keeping betraying our guru maharaj in the wrong side,agtSP, ys haribol