The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-12-20
LAST LETTERS OF SUICIDES.
Pathos and FIippancy shown by Their State
,nents of Reasons.

,nents of Reasons.
From The Boston Globe.
Nothing in the newspapers is more pitffu
than the constantly recurring paragraphs
which contain the last letters of a suicide.
The pathos OF filem is not obscured by the
absurd inadequacy Of the reasons which they
only too often advance for se!f-destruction.
In fact The intensity Of the minds emotions
is often greater when the troubles small,
curious is the mental state OF those boz
Gerng alteration
Not very long ago baron shot himself In
a Livonian watering place, and his reason
was that life too monotonous;" and
young man killed himself last year in Liv::
erpool hotel, having written on the back of
me. Goodby."
Infinitely more touching WAS the last letter
of girl ut Hghlield. She spoke of her
premature and self-wilied death, and said:
II feel as though l want to he far away
from everybody and | know very well they
can see by my face how miserable ] am
She felt as though she going mad"
but she did not forget others
'Tell - my last prayer was that he would
forget me and try to forgive me. | love him
still with all my heart but I can never marry
him in this state of mind; Let him read this,
and tell him 1 hope lie will get some brighter
and happier girl to be his WIFE Strange.
morbid fears seemed to beset her, and to es-
cape them she died
An octogenarian general left letter lately
defending the proprcty of his suicide. Said he:
"When individual life has run its cycle
and become a waste OF nature in the body,
Overwhelming its mental and physical quail
bic degree, it may with all propriety. be
moved.
such being the case with the life Of ths
writer his apology TO the world is by these
terms made through his most beloved and
most intimate friends, who he trusts will APP
preciatc the relief TO Inn from ceaSaiesS dis
tress. which, i'll his opinion, ought to be
brought by the physician who is summoned
with his drugs, surely for that purpose but
not for cure"
4 caretaker hanged himself and his lest
letter said: II have got to leave here. brit /
have money to pay for Il room ana nowhere
to lay my head
A Bcrm0nlSey grocer had not 50 definite 8
reason as hopclesEnesS.
"Rreak il gently To my poor wife, Re
wrote. 81 cannot fight the battle Of life any
longer. My poor head is bursting. ] hope
the lord will provide for her ana my poor
boy
4 Warwickshire tradcsnan was unable to
an accountant to go thrcucb his books.
But for almost tirnant indifference few
suicides letters equal that of IN ENGLISH ac-
Chicago hotel three years ago. Ne wrote:
"Dear Tharlcv-('OOdWiU Trcmf-H1 10 leave
So that he borrowed from mo at tho hotel.
hut did not do VIII vOu toll him to pav
HailoWcH between State and W0las'. SO
cents and Newfclt % cents. That 7 link.
covers my whisky hills.
81 will my carcass to some medical insH-
tute for them to try and find out why the
mental and physical machinery cf my svstcm
did not pull together. With Kind regards
the boys who tried harl t" make 'qd
egg good, I am yours in death. as VOL rs
in life. DTCE -''
It is a sorrowful vet altogether -roft'NSs
branch Of Investigation. this: and :; Is = sad
fact that the opportunities Fer it crow every
year.