You are oversimplying the national statistics to a sub-population. Those national level suicides are mostly done by: -People who are terminally ill -People with financial difficulties (unemployment, banktruptcy, etc) -Take place at home or hospital The Foxconn suicides are committed: -People in health well enough for physical work at a production facility -People who are employed -Done at work and seemingly as a protest against employer In other words, they aren't typical suicides committed by the kind of people who normally kill themselves. There's definately lot of sensationalism involved. Horrible working conditions in chinese factories have been known for a longtime. Foxconn workers are propably better off than most chinese factory workers. But we get our stuff cheaply thanks to them. So no worries, until cool brand gets involved.