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Are you a financial executive, partly responsible for the economic meltdown and personally poorer as a result? Well, Slate wants to know why you haven't killed yourself already! The Great Crash of 1929 prompted lots of suicides, including four newsworthy leaps from buildings; the '87 stock market crash, while lacking any exciting window plunges, can at least boast of a murder-suicide, when an investor killed a Merrill Lynch exec and then himself.

But what will future generations see when they look back on the great meltdown of '08? Wall Streeters vaguely distraught, but thanks to largely intact personal bank accounts and cannily diversified stock portfolios, not much actual suicide-inducing penury. Still, looking on the bright side, it's early days: Further financial devastation may yet prompt some honorable self-destruction.

Wall Street Suicides: If we're in the midst of a financial collapse, why aren't executives jumping out of office buildings? [Slate]