The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-06
ODD MEANS OF SUICIDE
Varied and Original Routes from This
World to the Next.
How Homer. Demosthenes, Seneca.
and Other Famous AncIents De-
parted This Life by Self
inflicted Violence.

IL powerful and lasting instinct OF
the human SOUL ana yet an Eng
iishinan OF the las, century shot himself
because ne was ured OF buttoning n un-
pu..ohihg ms CLONES!
inns act OF seii-destruction was unnec-
essary ana absurd. why did not IN mis-
guided man substitute hooks and eyes Tor
Du'tons' ana thus avert the catastrophe
Possibly HOOKS ana eyes mac not peen IN
vehted AT tiat uime. Inc case OF this
Eng,'sninah Is NOT, Dy any means an $50
lated one i'm the annals OF suicide. II Is
but the prototype OF hundreds OF instances
equally ridiculous.
Men are characteristically absurd AMI
mails 1rhox 10 ,h,,rd ,h;,.s al ,ho;.
iixas aud; :, 10 MOI, n ma,,or 80 ws,rd., Ill.,,
- W. 49," n.N.s.
'ne tehuehcy shouiu SURVIVE 'heir meth-
DDS OF suicide! A study OF the statistics
OF suicide, says the Chicago Journal, proves
that nowhere is man more illogical, in
consistent. and absurd than I'm the natives
and manner of his sell.
Ea."x.n.na. nna -
his throat and hold n there until Se d;"J
Why? Because, as the letter left behind
declares, he could not find sufficient air
TO breath with ease" Therefore, mark
YOU. he would choke himself 10 death with
n /, r,o bra.s boz,
announcer swalioweu broken glass because
the flsh didn't bite. Another inspired
idiot blew himself up with dynamite for
the reason that the pie lac had for dinner
was burned ON the bottom.
Still another; An old man in N soldiers,
- nn,i;n. IT. s,'.,n - ~. aT
' ie i"' nnS supp'. s,"s eu'
. SUM u,nihg 'h.,"Guoh oi 'he ruies'
killed himseii. How! III was very SIM
pie, very absurd. He ~sharpened n end
of his steel spectacles and jabbed il into
his ~iuguIar vein.
Viewed concrc,.Iv these INSTANCES se.m
positiyely humorous. but in Inc abstract
,boy en,r,hnsi,o /, CORY sor;o,,s ,ondoncy
When II IL nossible for men IN commii
s,icide for tbc reasons stated above thar
Is somethinr radically wrong with the
social mnchinary
In The carly history of this couptrv
when The social life Of The neonic was
,,r;,,;,;y. h,fnro tho I,roo .a,,nrs 80 -
,lation had deve,oned Suicides were rarv
rare. and the few that did occur were
con,nit,ed decentIv and in order
There were fewer of those sharn
;non,,aIitios 81 social c,,J;t;nn
Thai - nnw os,aLl;sboJ and
n-ernanent features of our system There
was no enormousIv rich or niserabI moor
class peonlc wera honest cnntentnd AMI
hanny Tbn;r tastes u,ore s;n,nio anJ
,hnir wants were few The Lnmes,ic
v;r,,,os ,hriyad Divorce that .reat fr;end
~ The dn,nnn ~ sm;c;ie' wns ain,ost 'ni
Lnnwn w" -"
Under sucb n condi,iop of ~soc;e,v uni.
c;,las ware Yacossnr;Iv rare ~ ,ho Ish
un,,I1n., ,;,a n,r ii
fathara ,i;dn', SUI, How lsrass tnys Thor
nu;otiy h,t frmIy snat ,,nn, IN. h,it md
h,ioJ ,ba;r ,;n,. Snr Ji,I hrrnat ~
nccossar;Jv i,,nIv n dnsa of hroi.an aIass
i'm aIIonatIic onnntities' That v;oient an,
h,.s,anaI aanara,;an "''
'Twn causosN a;s.aa. and d,sho,o
oo,,nto1 snr ,ha Iarn.s, 'ar en-, ~ ~
s .w s,;oi,Ios 90 tbs o,rIr ,I.ns ;o IN III
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