According to the data of Ivo and Bojan Pirc, the founders of public health care in Slovenia in the interwar period, according to the late psychiatrist Andrej Marušič, as well as the pioneers of Slovenian suicidological epidemiology, Drava Banat was a suicide-prone country by European standards, with a suicide rate of 19 suicides per 1000 inhabitants. It was found that the highest number of suicides occurred near cities. The contribution will focus on the question of the causes of the suicides as they can be found in the daily newspapers and archive material of the time. It will analyze the archive material of the Radovljica district administration in more detail, which "brings to life" the suicides with their stories and hardships that drove them to their deaths. Some of them left farewell letters that testify to a "planned" end of life, while others decided to die impulsively, in the heat of the moment, due to a stressful event for which they saw no solution. The reports of suicides also testify to the attitude of the people around them towards suicides. The sources do not contain any accusations, but rather an understanding of the situation in which the individual found themselves, even if they were often criticized during their lifetime and stood alone in their distress.