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

2. The act was violence to naturea suicide on constitutional susceptibilities.

He condemns suicide, although it had been defended by the Stoics.

For a short time he actually meditated suicide, as the only method of removing himself from before the advancement of George.

For twelve years he studied law, but at the approach of a public examination for an office he was so terrified that he attempted suicide.

The question arises, How did Shelley know what he here statesthat Keats was thrown, by reading the Quarterly article, into a state resembling insanity, that he contemplated suicide, &c.?

"I understand there is a law forbidding suicide," he replied.

Chinese maidens often feel so great an aversion to marriage as practised in their country that they prefer suicide to it.

A frontal attack on such a stronghold apparently meant suicide, but the Illinois men, led by Col. Sanborn and Col. Abel Davis, took it so neatly and quickly that they bagged nearly 1,000 soldiers, fifteen officers, twenty-six guns ranging from 105s down, 126 machine guns, twenty-one flatcars, two rolling kitchens, an ambulance and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

What follows appeared in the Morning Chronicle of May 29, 1782:'A correspondent having mentioned, in the Morning Chronicle of December 12, the last clause of the following paragraph, as seeming to favour suicide; we are requested to print the whole passage, that its true meaning may appear, which is not to recommend suicide but exercise.

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.

If this is so, it offers another instance of the crass optimism of these religions,denouncing suicide to escape being denounced by it.

In his local reports suicides were always "determined" suicides, and their acts were always "rash" acts.

But from a mistake to a crime is a far cry; and it is as a crime that the clergy of Christendom wish us to regard suicide.

bt the light, buoyant atmosphere keeps them from falling into such a state of mental prostration as to induce suicide.

Polidori had ultimately to be dismissed, and, after some years of vicissitude, committed suicide.

If I had hesitated to surrender, and he had sought to move me by threatening suicide, I should never have surrendered.

The idea did not occur to the young man that, if she should notice him, she might think it very strange to find the would-be suicide there after what had transpired in the morning.

Equally mistaken were those mediaeval sages who taught that the celestial sexual virtues are celibacy and virginitya doctrine which, if adopted, would involve the suicide of the human race, and thus stands self-condemned.

Lieutenant Katschuka had declared all along that he could not marry Athalie without a dowry, and when the wedding day arrived, Brazovics, unable to face his creditors, and knowing himself bankrupt, penniless, and fraudulent, committed suicide.

We had hardly lost sight of the slaver before one of our own crew had nearly committed suicide.

This analysis of Ibsen's practice points to the factfor such I believe it to bethat what the modern playwright has chiefly to guard against is the temptation to overdo suicide as a means of cutting the dramatic knot.

" It will be seen that Epictetus permits suicide without extolling it, for in another place (ii. 1) he says: "What is pain?

For the north-west wind brought clouds and gloom, Blue devils on earth, and mists in the air; Of parliamentary prose some died, Some perpetrated suicide, And her empire flourish'd there.

And we find that the Stoics actually praised suicide as a noble and heroic action, as hundreds of passages show; above all in the works of Seneca, who expresses the strongest approval of it.