Did people die from the great depression?

Question

i have to write about it for english

Answer 1

Many people died from starvation. Many also killed themselves after they found out they were broke.

Answer 2

Is anyone in your family of an age to remember? Grandparents? Great-grandparents? If so, they'd be a great source. Otherwise, there is so much information out there on the Depression... you could even go to a nursing home or something, volunteer your time, and talk with residents about their experiences. Their stories are sometimes tragic, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes a beautiful combination of the two.

... but I'm wondering, do you know anything about the Depression in its historical context, as in, what happened before and after? (And, perhaps more importantly, do you care?) Depending on when this assignment is due and how long it has to be, maybe that's a place to start - the Depression in context - exactly what was it, who was affected and how (here, you'd find your information about death (starvation, mental illness), and what did it mean for this country?

Good luck.

By the way... learning about this boring crap actually does matter... it's too bad history is taught so ineffectively.

Answer 3

To humanity as a whole, therefore, the Great Depression brought hardships but it did not bring acute disaster. There was no sharp rise in deaths from starvation and disease. On the contrary, the world death-rate declined in the 1930's, and life expectancy continued to rise. These encouraging trends may be seen in the statistical table compiled by the League of Nations. But these tables also reveal certain negative effects in the 1930 for which the Depression was almost certainly responsible. Although the world population continued to drop, there was a perceptible decline in the world birthrate in the 1930's.

Answer 4

Yes there are people who died of starvation. Then there are the people that jumped out of the window. The people that jumped out of the window may have been the lucky ones, but the country survived because Herbert Hoover was not president. He believed that the economy would right itself, he did not grasp the depth that the country would slide economically before it would right itself.

It was a couple of years before the New Deal took effect. So people died. If you want to write about for an English class, use the Grapes of Wrath by John Steinback as your reference. Rose of Sharon, a character in the story, loses her baby because of starvation. In real life many sharecroppers died of starvation. So yes people died.

Answer 5

During the Great Depression all the usual problems associated with extreme poverty were at high levels across the board.

Lack of nutrition meant that infant mortality rates were high, while the rate of diseases in general was a major concern.

Answer 6

YES! Sorry, I do not have any numbers, sites or anything like that, but millions of Americans lost their jobs, lost their farms (from the Dust Bowl Days), there were soup lines and all that. I remember pictures of the dust dunes, higher than houses, cattle starving, no water to drink, people going to California by whatever means they could.
Check the books and songs by Willie Guthrie: he wrote, amongst other things, "This Land Is Your Land".

Answer 7

Yes, they did, and as someone suggested, the best way to find out is to interview people who lived through it (and lost family to it).