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No.: _1文章分类：社会人文姓名：杨浩鹏学号： No.: _1 文章分类：社会人文 姓名：杨浩鹏 学号班级：经管实验 121 - - PAGE 1 - 文章来源： /biarticle.a?articleId=7628630171102677253date=2013-09-26position= readchannelType=public 原文： C-suite suicides: When exec life becomes a nightmare Swisscom CEO Carsten Schloter, 49, had trouble with being on call 24/7. Pierre Wauthier, 53, CFO at Zurich Insurance Group was in the middle of a horrendous conflict with his CEO. Both men ended their problems by taking their own lives: Schloter in July, Wauthier last week. While it is almost impossible to draw general conclusions from something so personal and complex as a suicide, their deaths raise a question: Have working conditions in the C-suite become so intense that suicide appears to offer the only answer for some? Statistics about senior executive suicides are scarce, if non-existent. I dont know of any data in the U.S., says Eric Caine, a suicide researcher at the University of Rochester. There is a literature on suicide and occupation, but that is not specified to C-level executives. There is also very little anecdotal evidence. The reason is that people tend to hide these tragedies. Only the most prominent make it to the press. General suicide rates in the U.S. in 2010 are at 12.08 per 100,000 people, according to data from the American Association of Suicidology in Washington, D.C. The rate is on the rise, though: At the turn of the century, it was around 10.8 per 100,000. By comparison, suicide rates in Switzerland, where both Swisscom and Zurich Insurance are based, have actually gone down: from 17.2 per 100,000 in 2000 to 11.1 per 100,000 in 2010. In the EU as a whole, the rate has gone down as well from 11.8 per 100,000 people in 2000 to 10.2 in 2010, according to Eurostat. Suicide within the C-suite almost seems counterintuitive. As a class of people, top executives tend to have better mental health than those on the lower rungs of an organization, says Caine. They have more resources and less financial iss