Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Debt Paranoia

I came upon this short film in Youtube (sorry about some of the language)



The guy became paranoid after he can't pay off his huge debt and wouldn't let a man in thinking he was one of those collectors. He couldn't take all the internal voices nagging him that he finally took his life. Too bad since the guy on the door was actually a representative from an estate that would have handed him a huge inheritance.

This is fictional and seems like one of those features in the Tales from the unexpected but I have heard of someone who actually committed suicide due to depression caused by failure in business and HUGE debt.

I think this is rare in the Philippines. What would be more common is someone running away from debt. Just disappearing! It may be hard to disappear in the US and other countries but it seems fairly easy in the Philippines.

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