What Can a Farmer Do?

When one loses one's livelihood, farm or wages-job, there are alternatives to drastic action. Immediately one seeks alternative employ, and register for Social Security in the meantime. Not great but it keeps one alive and the payment [dole] for a married person with a few dependents is close to $1000 per week. Hundreds of thousands live on Social Security in OZ in the form of pension, allowance, dole etc. Then there are welfare Agencies which abound. If the trouble here is pride, the apparent disgrace of seeming failure, then this is a personal value and philosophy for which an individual is responsible. Surely there is no disgrace in having a crack but it doesn't come off: what one does afterward is where character shows. Apart from this, in failure, one has the option of mental health support, personal financial guidance etc. Surely one must decide: what is more important... my family or my pride?