Show I E DL Dr Fr Frank Cranes Crane's Daily Editorial 5 5 Suicide By DR FRANK CRANE A correspondent correspond nt from somewhere asked me If a person is ever sane who commits suicide Sho She seems to h have ve an n idea that no one Is guilty o of this thIs' crime who has not first become m mentally nt Uy deranged S Just lust what sanity Is i is Ig hard to say It is a relative term It means the balance of all aU the v po powers rS of ot the mind or rather a a. balance of the Int Intellectual forces forced with the instincts lh The Pho strongest instinct of a human being is and arid ought to be the 5 Instinct of ute life 5 This we recognize In the saying saing that Self Self preservation fon Is the first law of or nature AVe We mean that that the defense or salvation of one ones one's s life is always always' justifiable dud and nd an any crime even murder Is excusable when it is committed In self defense Pastor Faster Va Wagner ner says that the first creed is a belief in life It is evidently the I indention n of nature th that t her creatures should live out their generation and it has to be a a strong instinct in each of them to do this S Th Tho span of life Ure Is not very vetY great anyhow and n ho tto one is justified In deliberately telY shortening it Accidents and le diseases will do that t for him S No one would commit suicide if it he could seo see around the corner Suicide is a collapse of hope and of patience Patience Patince nce enables us to endure endure- the present for or the sake of the future and hope is the anticipation of ot a better future Those who h hare ha e lived Jived any considerable ble length of time know that anything Is lIable to happen arid and wh why not something good 5 There Is a a. relationship between ones one's attitude arid and events I will not say that an optimistic attitude always brings brings' a a. favorable event but It certainly has something to do with U it just how much uch we cannot say sav say r rAnd I And AntI a It belief in the worst a confidence in has a tendency I Ito to bring It about I As th the preservation of life Is based upon the strongest instinct I that Is present in a human being we are Justified in saying that no one who commits commit suicide la is wholly sane I Copyright 1924 b by The McClure r Newspaper S Syndicate ate I |