| Show THE SUICIDE 46 IT is a fact proved 7 by P pared statistic ir that chati 1 toward suicide hao ban b bw america an and d europe passes that does notre paA 0 0 of self destruction A which appear today t 1 dozen cases of se lf 0 1 country many people advance insani insanity to all clde cide toe the more VOW gebat however holds bat 11 may go on without any destruction so the alai dulcid tion dionis is formed th in eibi minds which then carryl coolness inspired inspire dwi with tu rationality this Is e tailed knowledge cum stances of a large percentage of the suicidal record an and by the fact that about one fourth of those at the rash act fail in their purpose ose or are prevented such persons E furnishing a direct source of information as to why they chose all of mortal life in the momentary pain of death rather than to continue to io face the difficulties incident to mortality in all cases of suicide whether they happen after weighing motives and consequences or are the effect of a sudden resolution emotion is necessary that is to say suffering buffering physiological or cm psychological must at the very time of the act have thrown the brain into an abnormal excitement besides mental disorders the following causes conduce condace to the suicide maula mania ine incurable wable physical passion solon as crossed loved love jealousy smitten ambition ta and anger domestic troubles financial derangement and vices as libertinism and alcoholism an instance of from a false sense of honor was afforded recently in the case of a young man of the south who having from conscientious scruples refused to fight a duel afterwards believed himself thereby dishonored and chose to soend end his bis shame with the suicidal act tuat that there has been a gradual increase in the ratio of suicide since the first quarter of the present century is not at ac all flattering to toe the new condition of things imposed by modern civilization C cities ties furnish many times more cases than country populations rome borne and athens saw suicide come into fashion when effeminacy ambition and the desire of riches prevailed among them the corollary of all this is that whilst in the duo due pro progress ress ot of civilization intellectual conz conditions ions are in general improved at the same time a demand tor for the comforts comfort sand and conveniences of modern life has correspondingly increase dand to a degree that cannot be attained by the many the age arenas has stimulated in the higher classes inordinate ambition and avarice in the middle classes a luxurious tendency which increases superfluous desires in the class below detestation of the wealthy classes and hatred to work and in all a dissatisfaction of life conditions and a keener sensitiveness from the effects of culture to these elements may be added the genral want of true religious conviction or any deep rooted philosophy to take its place and like a sheet anchor to the souls of men place an inhibition on self murder by showing the consequences of the deed in the I 1 light ight of an eternal hereafter besides that true religion deep set and duft influential e ithial as it should be in the moral and social lives of men would teach them fortitude to bear the inevitable wearisome burdens and to avoid the vices and crimes which tor for the greater part swell the present list of unfortunates it is curious to observe certain facts in relation to age sex and methods prevailing in the taki 1 oil off it process As aito to age it is ii noti noticeable ceab e that violent deaths are much more common among men than women the number averaging about as to per million of inhabitants although up to the age of twenty the excess is on the part of the fei females nales with men the greater number of suicides happen between twenty gud and thirty and fifty five ave and sixty five years of 01 age while with women under twenty and between forty five ave and fifty five A preponderance of the suicides come from the ranks of the unmarried the widowed and the divorced it the german people lead the world in numbers of suicides and the prevailing method among them and throughout rou h 0 t northern europe is hanging in g fu in southern europe in a warmer climate and beneath a fairer sky they seem to prefer drowning this is no more strange however than is the fact fac that in our own america we hardly ever hear of a case of self drowning in the winter time the water to is too cold to give any comfort to the act after drowning and hanging come I 1 in n theonder the order of prominence anum enumerated era ted firearms fire arms wounds falls from a 4 beig height h t a specially prominent past time I 1 in n france poisoning and asphyxia men seem to prefer firearms while ladles ladies f earing fearins to disfigure their beauty and cle desiring string to make the matter as interestingly as pos possible gible to the coro or prefer polo poisoning orila strychnine dougli iga on bats or anything an alhand at hand in abat t line being satisfactory I 1 fane une and july are the choice of mouths months and thi hours 8 9 am and 2 8 pm or else the darkness and mystery of night the tae more violent and protracted deaths achs as the blowing off the top of the aesa bead starving beating out the already limited stock of brains or I 1 like gates daughter the swallowing in of live coals may generally be assigned at ne as the sets acts of minds bisor disordered ere by some form of insanity |
