Death in June

Blackfriars Bridge, at the edge of the City, London


1 Poultry, London - one of the mortal leap's location






Do you remember this man?

The case of Roberto Calvi's murder has been never resolved, although his close relations to Vatican proved to be linked to it, even if partly. Yet, waves of bankers' suicides date long before Italian 'God's banker' has been found hanged on London's Blackfriars bridge in 1982.

Evidently, recent frequent reports on bankers from around the world committing suicides has some overlapping historical facts with Black Thursday in 1929 crash. The statistics show that the monetary crisis had impact on the growing numbers of suicides among financial sector employees. Despite the fact that only after the crisis settles down, the true mortal impact can be indicated, there is no way to measure the true vulnerability of the successful individuals and even untouchable businessmen like HSBC's Christen Schnor, friend of Danish royal family. Although, back in 1929, along with the Wall Street brokers literally leaping through hotel windows, big number of people affected were from other service sectors, too. These personal tragedies maybe are not so personal, after all, although they tend to be represented as such in media.We can have a look on our public health and the demands that financial sector sets as a normative of success, productivity, growth and ask ourselves:

How many times does an action have to be repeated in order to learn mistakes from it?