Which preposition to use with suicide

of Occurrences 43%

So it has spawned a conflict between its organs, and a consequent impasse in which the lower centres drive the higher pitilessly into devising means and instruments for the suicide of the whole.

in Occurrences 42%

" "You mean they both suicided in that abnormal way?

by Occurrences 35%

Would you advise me to commit suicide by hanging? Answer.

on Occurrences 22%

General Salas took his defeat so much to heart that he committed suicide on his way back to Torreon.

as Occurrences 15%

We might quote Hamlet's soliloquy on suicide as an example of Shakespeare's ability to go to the heart of deep questions.

for Occurrences 8%

P. 15, l. 228, Hearts have bled.]People have committed suicide for less than this.

to Occurrences 6%

As he tottered and fell, the assassin drew a poniard to add suicide to the crime, but he was instantly put to death by the attendant guards.

without Occurrences 5%

If you regard the general condition of misery as the sole source of criminality, then you cannot get around the difficulty that out of one thousand individuals living in misery from the day of their birth to that of their death only one hundred or two hundred become criminals, while the other nine hundred or eight hundred either sink into biological weakness, or become harmless maniacs, or commit suicide without perpetrating any crime.

from Occurrences 5%

It is always so considered, and Eckstein, in his eagerness to prove that the ancient Greeks knew romantic love, gives a list of six legendary suicides from hopeless or foiled love.

among Occurrences 4%

Occasionally a free man of color would seek a swifter and surer escape from his tribulations by taking his own life; but there appears to be no reason to believe that suicides among them were in greater ratio than among the whites.

at Occurrences 3%

"] Of course, when the right time came, he happened to meet Katy on the street, and to take off his hat and make a melancholy bow, the high-tragedy air of which confirmed Katy's suspicions that he meant to commit suicide at the first opportunity.

after Occurrences 3%

She was the daughter of Livius Drusus, who had been among those proscribed by the tablet and had committed suicide after the defeat in Macedonia, and the wife of Nero, whom she had accompanied in his flight, as has been related.

with Occurrences 3%

The Indians were taking turns dancing and eating roasted corn, and they had a barrel of beer, and I knew enough about Indians to keep away from them when they mix beer with green corn, for it has about the same effect as committing suicide with carbolic acid.

than Occurrences 3%

" "Do you mean to say that that is not exaggerated?" "I suppose it is, as women are even less given to suicide than men.

through Occurrences 2%

"It will be thought a case of suicide through love.

before Occurrences 2%

If that lank-and-leather-jawed gentleman, with complexion bespeaking a temperament dry and adust, and who has long been sedulously occupied in feeling the edge of his fruit-knife with the ball of his thumbdo not commit suicide before September,Lavater must have been as great a goose as Gall.

during Occurrences 2%

He committed suicide during brain fever in 1796.Burton was a creditable utility actor at Covent Garden and Drury Lane.

under Occurrences 2%

Hence the frequency of suicide under disappointment, or ennui, or satiated desire, or fear of poverty, or disgrace, or pain.

out Occurrences 1%

Then Sunday that fellar what committed suicide out southI read about in the paperscame to see him in a car.

Which preposition to use with  suicide