Austerity over his dead body

An elderly man took his own life near the Greek parliament building in central Athens in what was apparently a protest over the austerity crisis gripping the nation. The man, who was in his mid-70s, wrote in a suicide note that the government had made it impossible for him to survive. This is not surprising in a country that had a 21% unemployment rate as of December last year. There has to be a better way to sort this crisis out than causing the populace to take their own lives. Greece has been struggling with an unsustainable level of debt and an economy that has been in recession for years. Modern Greece traces its roots to the civilisation of ancient Greece, generally considered the cradle of Western civilisation. As such it is the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games (but obviously not the drug cheats that ruin some of the sports), Western literature and historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, and Western drama including both tragedy and comedy. I believe they can rise above their current difficulties and become a great nation once again.