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Mourners applaud as the coffin of Dimitris Christoulas, who shot himself at central Syntagma square last Wednesday, is carried during a funeral procession in Athens April 7, 2012. A 77-year-old retired pharmacist, Christoulas, shot himself in the head in central Athens on Wednesday after saying that financial troubles had pushed him over the edge. A suicide note said he preferred to die rather than scavenge for food. Pensioners have been hard hit by Greece's worst economic crisis since World War Two, suffering cuts of about 25 percent on average in their old-age benefits over the past two years. REUTERS/John Kolesidis