Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-31
is SUICIDE A SIN
Robert @. Inoersoll Says
it is Not
What the Genial Philosopher
Really Means.
Other Equally Eminent Men
Differ From His Views.
a Question Involved Each of US
Must Decide.
A Letter of Powerful Interest TO
Our Readers.

The eloquent Robert G. Ingersoh, in
recent communication to the New York
World, takes the ground that suicide Is not
always sid New York's most emin-nt
cl-raymen, statesmen aud judges, immedi-
ately fill the columns of that paper with
protestations against the great thinkers
IL cory.
What Mr. Ingersoll really said and meant
WAS that under certain circumstances
suicide was n t sin. For instance. he
thought that Ia case of a person suffering
with sickness and of hopeless cure. It
would not be u sin to end such suffering
by self destruction.
MIR Ingt rsolrs idea was the humani-
tarisn one OF aIrestinG pain. But he for
got that it is often dIfficult-nay, impossi-
BILE to draw the line when n disease Is cur
able of incurable.
Mere suffering should not be a warrant
for self dsst. uction. Countless cases OF
terrible, yes +xcruclating suffering. have
been cured even after AL hope WAS lost,
and all doctors have pronounced the dis
case lncurable Many sufferer tr IN dis
case has been brought to the verge of sui
eide and afterwards recovered perfect
b, alth
An esteemed lad !, Mrs Lila G. Root,
who resides at SO Elm street, New Bedford,
Mass, tells the following facts:
u was very nervous" she said. land
my kidneys were in a terrible state, and
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could not sleep at night. My headache
was a source of great annoyance. and
suffered much at my periods.
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! the best medicine in the world"
Case after case like the above might be
| cited, when all hope of cure had been
abandoned, and the persons given up TO
die, and yet this wonderful medicine has
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Suicide is self-destruction. 1t is just
as much suicide to neglect ones health
when slightly i'll, or when apparently trivial
| symptoms arise, as to deliberately take
ones life. To feel nervous. to have weak
nerves, to be tired. lis'less, languid. 10
have headache, indigestion, constipation
and dyspepsia. to pass slaepless nights. to
wake tired mornings, to be ever so slightly
ran down in health and strengthened
are the sure precurors of serious diseases.
to be later follows by prostration and
premature dsath, unless attended TO ut
once.
Suicide is a sin, and it Is suicide 10 ne
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