I. INTRODUCTION: THE ETHICS OF SUICIDE

II. SELECTIONS

Egyptian Didactic Tale (c. 1937-1759 B.C.)

Dialogue of a Man With His Soul

The Vedas, and Upanishads, and Purana (c. 1500-c.500 B.C.)

Rigveda

Chandogya Upanishad

Isha Upanishad

Brahma Purana

Padma Purana

Skanda Purana

Jabala Upanishad

The Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha (c. 12-1st centuries B.C.)

Genesis: The Prohibition of Bloodshed

Exodus: The Ten Commandments

Judges: Samson and the Philistines

I Samuel-II Samuel: Saul and his Armor-Bearer

Job: The Sufferings of Job

Daniel: Shadrach, Meschach, Abednego and the Fiery Furnance

II Maccabees: The Suicide of Razis



Homer (c. 8th century B.C.)

The Iliad: The Deaths of Hector and Achilles

Dharmashastra (c. 600 B.C.-200 A.D.)

Gautama Sutra

Apastamba Sutra

Vasishtha Sutra

Laws of Manu

Vishnu Smriti

The Jain Tradition (599-527 B.C. to 5th century A.D.)

Acaranga Sutra: The Seventh Lecture, called Liberation

Upasaka-Dasah: Ten Chapters on Lay Attenders: The Story of Ananda

Tattvartha Sutra: Passionless End is Not Suicide

Confucius (551-479 B.C.)

The Analects

The Book of Filial Piety

Sophocles (c. 496-406 B.C.)

Ajax

Oedipus at Colonus

Euripides (c. 484-406 B.C.)

Suppliant Women: The Suicide of Evadne, Watched by her Father

The Hippocratic Corpus (c. 450-c.350 B.C.)

The Hippocratic Oath

About Maidens

Plato (c. 424-c. 348 B.C.)

Apology: Socrates on Being Condemned to Death

Phaedo: The Death of Socrates

The Republic: On Medicine

The Laws: Recidivist Criminals and Penalties for Suicide

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

Nicomachean Ethics



Mencius (c. 372-c. 289 B.C.)

The Mencius

Qu Yuan (c. 340-278 B.C.)

Embracing Sand

Chrysippus (c. 280-c. 206 B.C.)

The Stoics’ Five Reasons for Suicide

Sima Qian (c. 145/135-86 B.C.)

Records of the Grand Historian

The Basic Annals of Xiang Yu

The Assassin and his Sister



Letter in Reply to Ren Shaoqing

Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

Tusculan Disputations

On Ends

On Old Age

The Questions of King Milinda (c. 100 B.C.)

On Suicide

Livy (59 B.C.-17 A.D.)

The History of Rome: The Rape of Lucretia

Seneca (4 B.C.-65 A.D.)

Moral Letters to Lucilius

Letter 70: On the Proper Time to Slip the Cable

Letter 77: On Taking One’s Own Life

Letter 78: On the Healing Power of the Mind

Valerius Maximus (fl. c. 14-c. 37)

Memorable Doings and Sayings

Pliny the Elder (23-79)

Natural History

Of God

Nature of the Earth

What Diseases are Attended with the Greatest Pain

Ignatius of Antioch (c. 35/50-c. 107)

Epistle: To the Romans

Josephus (37-c. 100)

The Jewish War

The Defeat at Jotapata

The Fall of Masada

Plutarch (c. 46-c. 120)

Moralia: The Women of Miletus

Parallel Lives: Cato the Younger

The New Testament (c. 50-c. 125)

Matthew: The Death of Jesus and the Suicide of Judas

Acts: Paul Prevents a Suicide

I Corinthians: The Body as Temple

Philippians: Paul in Prison: On the Desire to Die

Lotus Sutra (c. 50-c. 200)

Former Affairs of the Bodhisattva Medicine King

Tacitus (c. 55-c. 117)

The Annals: The Death of Seneca

Epictetus (c. 55-c. 135)

Discourses

How From the Doctrine of Our Relationship to God We Are To Deduce its Consequences

How We Should Bear Illness

Of Freedom

Pliny the Younger (62-113)

Letters

To Calestrius Tiro

To Catilius Severus

To Marcilius Nepos

To Calpurnius Macer

Justin Martyr (c. 100-165)

The Second Apology: Why Christians Do Not Kill Themselves

Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-c.215)

The Miscellanies

The Praises of Martyrdom

Those Who Offered Themselves for Martyrdom Reproved

Tertullian (c. 160-c. 220)

To the Martyrs

The Crown of Martyrdom

Bhagavad-Gita (3rd century)

The Way to Eternal Brahman

Genesis Rabbah (compiled 3rd-5th century)

Commentary on Genesis 9:5

Plotinus (204-270)

The Enneads

On Happiness

On the Primal Good and Secondary Forms of Good

“The Reasoned Dismissal“

Lactantius (c. 240-c. 320)

The Divine Institutes

Eusebius (c. 260-339)

Ecclesiastical History

Ambrose (337/340-397)

Of Virgins: Letter to Marcellina

Augustine (354-430)

The City of God

On Free Choice of the Will

The Babylonian Talmud (3rd-6th centuries)

Bava Kamma

Avodah Zarah

Gittin

Semahot

Bana (c. 595-c. 655)

Harsha-Carita, The Death of the Great King: On Sati

Kadambari

The Quran (traditional date c. 632-c. 650)

Surahs 2.54, 2.154, 2.195, 2.209, 3.145, 3.169-70, 4.29-30, 4.66, 4.74-80, 9.111, 18.6

Hadith: The Sayings of Muhammad (7th-9th century)

Ya’qub al-Qirqisani (c. 890-c. 960)

The Book of Lighthouses and Watchtowers

Ahmad ibn Fadlan (fl. 920s)

The Risala: By the River Volga, 922: Viking Ship Burial

Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi (c. 923-1023)

Borrowed Lights: On Suicide

Jetsun Milarepa (c. 1052-c. 1135)

Songs of Milarepa

Abu-Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (1056-1111)

Revival of the Religious Sciences

Tosafot (12-14th centuries)

On Avodah Zarah 18a

On the Torah: Concerning Genesis Rabbah (Genesis 9:5)

Henry de Bracton (c. 1210-1268)

On the Laws and Customs of England: Where a Man Commits Felony Upon His Own Person

The Norse Sagas (c. 1220-c. 1400)

Ynglinga Saga: Odin Marks Himself with a Spear

Gautrek’s Saga: The Family Cliff

Njal’s Saga: The Burning of Njal

Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274)

Summa Theologiae: Whether One is Allowed to Kill Oneself

Angela of Foligno (c. 1248-1309)

The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno

Abu’Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Batutta (1304-1368/69)

Rihla: On Sati and Religious Suicide

Thomas More (1478-1535)

Utopia

A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation

Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Table Talk

Francisco de Vitoria (c. 1483/92-1546)

Lecture on Homicide

Commentary on [Thomas Aquinas] Summa Theologiae IIa II ae Q. 64 A.5

John Calvin (1509-1564)

Sermons on Job

Solomon ben Jehiel Luria (1510-1573)

Yam shel Shelomoh On Bava Kamma 8:59

Central and South American Indigenous Cultures (documented 1519-1621)

CENTRAL AMERICA

Aztec

Codex Chimalpopoca: The Death of Quetzalcoatl (1570)

Letters from Mexico (Hernán Cortés, 1519-20)

General History of the Things of New Spain (Bernardino de Sahagún, c. 1565)

(The Florentine Codex)

The Festival in the Month of Tóxcatl

The Sun, Moon, and Stars, and the Binding of the Years



Monarchia Indiana

Chimalpopoca’s Victory in Death (Juan de Torquemada, 1609-15)

In Defense of the Indians (Bartolomé de Las Casas, 1548-1550)

Maya

Popol Vuh

History of the Twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque

How the People Obtained Fire (dictated in K’iche’, c. 1554-1558; Francisco Ximénez, c. 1701)

An Account of the Affairs of Yucatán

Ixtab: Goddess of the Gallows (Diego de Landa, c. 1570)

CARIBBEAN PEOPLES

Natural History of the West Indies

Suicide on the Death of the Chief (Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, 1526)

La Historia General de las Indias

Suicide, Smallpox, and the Arrival of the Spaniards (Francisco López de Gómara, 1552)

History of the New World

Suffering at the Hands of the Spaniards (Girolamo Benzoni, 1565)

SOUTH AMERICA

The Incas

The Incas: The Burial of Wives (Pedro de Cieza de León, 1553)

Natural & Moral History of the Indies

Of Superstitions They Used to the Dead (José de Acosta, 1589)

The Extirpation of Idolatry in Peru

What Those Who Hang Themselves Really Are (Pablo José de Arriaga, 1621)

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

Of Cannibals

A Custom of the Island of Cea

Abu’l Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551-1602)

Biography of the Emperor Akbar: On Jauhar and Saka

John Donne (1572-1631)

Biathanatos

Robert Burton (1577-1640)

The Anatomy of Melancholy

John Sym (1581c.-1638)

Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

Leviathan

A Dialogue of the Common Laws of England

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)

Ethics

Samuel von Pufendorf (1632-1694)

Of the Law of Nature and Nations

John Locke (1632-1704)

Second Treatise of Government

Of the State of Nature

Of Slavery



Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)

Diary

Huang Liuhong (1633-c. 1710)

A Complete Book Concerning Happiness and Benevolence

North American Indigenous Cultures (documented 1635-1970)

NORTHEAST

Ojibwa

Mrs. Cochran Becoming a Windigo (R. Landes, 1932-1935)

Micmac

The Gaspesians: Suicide, Shame, and Despair (Chrestien Le Clercq, 1675-1686)

Huron

Le Jeune’s Relation (Jean de Brebeuf; Father Paul Le Jeune 1635-1636)

The Suicide of Children (Anthony F.C. Wallace, citing LeMercier, 1600s)

Iroquois

Suicide (Father Joseph François Lafitau, 1712-17)

Suicide of the Widowed (Baron de Lahontan, 1703)

The Song of Death (Baron de Lahontan, 1703)

Seneca

Murder and Suicide (Mrs. Mary Jemison, 1817)

The Code of Handsome Lake (Edward Cornplanter, Arthur C. Parker, 1850, 1913)

The Suicide as Earthbound (Jesse Cornplanter)

SOUTHEAST

Cherokee

Varieties of Shame: Time of Death, Pollution, and the Disfigurement of Smallpox (James Adair, 1775)

Natchez

The Favorite Wife of the Chief Sun (Jean-Bernard Bossu, 1751-1762)

GREAT PLAINS

Comanche

Elderly Persons “Thrown Away” (Ernest Wallace & Edward Adamson Hoebel, 1933, 1945)

Suicide from Overwhelming Shame (Edward Adamson Hoebel, 1940)

Arapaho

The Rarity of Suicide; When the Camp Moved (M. Inez Hilger, 1935-1942)

Sioux

Suicide among Sioux Women (John Bradbury, 1809-1811)

Cheyenne

Two Twists in Battle (Karl N. Llewellyn and Edward Adamson Hoebel, 1941)

Mandan

Smallpox and the End of a Household (Alfred W. Bowers, 1930-1931)

Crow

Crazy-Dog Wishing to Die (Robert H. Lowie, 1913)

The Lowest of the Low (William Wildschut, 1918-1927; 1960)

Gros Ventre

Singing the ‘Brave-Song’ (Regina Flannery, 1940-1948)

Blackfoot

Suicide to Avoid Marriage (George Bird Grinnell, 1888)

The Sandhills (Adolf Hungry Wolf, 1977)

Kit-sta-ka Rejoins her Husband After the Sun Dance (Walter McClintock, 1910)

When Wakes-Up-Last Murdered All of his Children (Walter McClintock, 1968)

SOUTHWEST AND THE GREAT BASIN

Navajo

Notes on Navajo Suicide (Leland C. Wyman and Betty Thorne, 1945)

The Destination of Witches and Suicides (Leland C. Wyman, W.W. Hill, and Iva Ósanai, 1942)

Reasons for Suicide (D. Leighton and C. Kluckhohn, 1947)

Ending One’s Life by Wishing to Die (Franc Johnson Newcomb, 1915-1940)

Crazy Violence (B. Kaplan and D. Johnson, 1964)

Navajo Suicide (Jerrold E. Levy, 1965)

Hopi

Making Arrangements for Suicide (Edmund Nequatewa, 1936)

How the Hopi Marked the Boundary Line (Edmund Nequatewa, 1936)

Girls Going Qövisti (Mischa Titiev, 1932-1940)

Ute

Postmenopausal Women (John Wesley Powell, 1867-1880)

Pueblo

Suicides as Cloud Beings (Elsie Clews Parsons, 1939)

Ritual Revenge (Ruth Benedict, 1934)

Jicarilla Apache

Apache War Customs (M.E. Opler, 1936)

Mojave

The First Death: Matavilye, and Suicide in Childbirth, Weaning, and Twins (George Devereux, 1961)

WEST AND NORTHWEST COAST

Pomo

Psychological Suicide (B.W. Aginsky, 1934-35)

Wintu and others

Suicide in Northeastern California (Erminie W. Voegelin, 1937)

Klamath

The Stigma of Suicide (Lucy Thompson, 1916)

Salish

Strained Sex Relations (V. F. Ray, 1928-1930)

Suicide by Hanging (W. Cline, 1930)

Kwakiutl

Shame (Ruth Benedict, 1934)

Talkotin

Barbarities Practised on Widows (Ross Cox, citing M’Gillivray 1794-1795)

Tlingit

Holding Others Responsible for Suicide (Aurel Krause, 1881-1882; 1956)

Slaves: An Honor to Die at the Master’s Funeral (Albert F. Niblack, 1887)

Paying Damages for Suicide (Livingston F. Jones, 1893-1914)

Kaska

Suicide and Intoxication (John Joseph Honigmann, 1943-1945)

Daidoji Yuzan (1639-1730)

Beginner’s Book of Bushido

Increase Mather (1639-1723)

A Call to the Tempted

Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725)

The Love Suicides at Sonezaki

John Adams (1662-1720)

An Essay Concerning Self-Murther

Cotton Mather (1663-1728)

Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions

Charles Gildon (c. 1665-1724) [New Selection, in preparation]

Apology for the Suicide of Charles Blount

Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

A Defense Against the Temptation to Self-Murther

Montesquieu (1689-1755)

The Persian Letters

Considerations of the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline

The Spirit of the Laws

Volatire (1694-1778)

Philosophical Dictionary

Caleb Fleming (1698-1779)

A Dissertation Upon the Unnatural Crime of Self-Murder

John Wesley (1703-1791)

Thoughts on Suicide

David Hume (1711-1776)

Of Suicide

Letter to John Home of Ninewells

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

Julie, or the New Heloise

William Blackstone (1723-1780)

Commentaries on the Laws of England

Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d’Holbach (1723-1789)

The System of Nature

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

The Metaphysical Principles of Virtue: Man’s Duty to Himself Insofar as He Is an Animal Being

Lectures on Ethics: Duties Towards the Body in Regard to Life

Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794)

Of Crimes and Punishments

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments in Cases Heretofore Capital

Letter to Dr. Samuel Brown

Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-1797)

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself

Richard Hey (1745-1835)

Dissertation on Suicide

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

Principles of Penal Law

Principles of Judicial Procedures

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life

William Godwin (1756-1836)

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

Memoirs of the Author of a ‘Vindication of the Rights of Woman‘

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814)

The Science of Ethics as Based on the Science of Knowledge

Ephraim Zalman Margolioth (1762-1828)

Bet Efrayim

Ann Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (1766-1817)

On the Influence of the Passions

Reflections on Suicide

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

Philosophy of Right

Novalis (1772-1801)

Novices of Sais

Jean-Étienne-Dominique Esquirol (1772-1840)

Mental Maladies: A Treatise on Insanity

Rammohun Roy (1774-1833)

Translation of a Conference Between an Advocate For, and an Opponent Of, the Practice of Burning Widows Alive

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)

Essays in Philosophy: On Suicide

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

The World as Will and Idea

Studies in Pessimism: On Suicide

Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)

Dialogue between Plotinus and Porphyry

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

Autobiography

Deaths of Casimir Perier and Georges Cuvier

Penal Code for India

Diary, March 8, 1854

On Liberty

Forbes Winslow (1810-1874)

The Anatomy of Suicide: Can Suicide Be Prevented by Legislative Enactments?

Karl Marx (1818-1883)

Peuchet on Suicide

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)

Note, Christmas Eve, 1850

Nightingale’s draft novel

Draft for Suggestions for Thought to Searchers After Religious Truth

Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes

Note to Benjamin Jowett

Reflections on George MacDonald’s Novel, Robert Falconer

Truth and Feeling

Notes on Egypt: Mysticism and Eastern Religions

Oceania Indigenous Culture (documented 1820-1983)

MELANESIA

Fiji

The Principal Wife of the Chief (William Mariner, 1820)

Elderly Parents and the Time to Die (Charles Wilkes, 1845)

Deaths of the Old Chief and his Wives (Thomas Williams, 1858)

Solomon Islands

Tikopian Attitudes Towards Suicide (Raymond Firth, 1967)

Papua New Guinea: Kiriwina/The Trobriand Islands

Suicide as an Act of Justice

Expiation and Insult: Jumping from a Palm (Bronislaw Malinowski, 1916, 1926)

The Kaliai: Good Death, Bad Death (David R. Counts and Dorothy Ayers Counts, 1983-84)

MICRONESIA

Guam

A Tale of Two Lovers: Tying Their Hair Together (Freycinet, 1819)

Chuuk

Sea Spirit Spasms (Frank Joseph Mahony, (1950-1968), 1970)

Group Rejection and Suicide (Thomas Gladwin and Seymour Bernard Sarason, 1953)

POLYNESIA

Samoa

“Who Will Go With Me?” (George Turner, 1884)

Tonga

The Love-Sick of Vavau (Basil Thomson, 1886-1891, 1894)

Niue Island

Traditions of Niue (Edwin M. Loeb, 1926)

Pukapuka, Cook Islands

After Defeat in Fighting: Burying Oneself Alive (Ernest Beaglehole and Pearl Beaglehole, 1938)

Marquesas

The Native Culture in the Marquesas: Coconut Rites for Suicide

Marquesan Legends: Tahia-noho-uu (E. S. Craighill Handy, 1920, 1930)

Mangareva, Gambier Islands

Cliff Suicide: The Privilege of Women (Te Rangi Hiroa [Sir Peter H. Buck], 1938)

NEW ZEALAND



The Maori Myth of Tane The Myth of Rakuru (John White, 1887)

Maori: Tupu and Mate (J. Prtyz Johansen, 1954)

The Spirit (Frederick Edward Maning, 1922)

The Dying Maori Chief and his Old and Young Wives (Frederick Edward Maning, 1922)

HAWAII



The Secrecy of the Bones of a Chief (Laura C. Green and Martha Warren Beckwith, 1926)

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)

The Diary of a Writer

Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)

Is Suicide a Sin? Colonel Ingersoll’s Reply to His Critics

A.B. Mitford, Lord Redesdale (1837-1916)

An Account of the Hara-Kiri

Arctic Indigenous Cultures (documented 1840-1940)

Eskimo of Diomede Island

Father and Son (Edward Moffat Weyer, 1932)

Aleut

Are the Aleut Prone to Commit Suicide? (Veniaminov, 1840)

St. Lawrence Eskimo

Notes on Eskimo Patterns of Suicide (Leighton and Hughes, 1940)

Ingalik

Suicide as Shameful or Insane (Osgood, 1937)

Copper Eskimo

Death Taboos (Rasmussen, 1921-1924)

Suicide as Rare (Jenness, 1913-1918)

Eskimo of Cumberland Sound

Man’s Two Souls: The Afterlife (Boas, 1883-1884)

Caribou Eskimo

Moral Rights, Social Obligations (Birket-Smith, 1921-1924)

Netsilik Eskimo

Famine; On the Treatment of the Aged (Rasmussen, 1921-1924)

Iglulik Eskimo

The Moon Spirit (Rasmussen, 1921-1924)

Death, and Life in the Land of the Dead (Rasmussen, 1921-1924)

Those Who Were Left Behind (Rasmussen, 1921-1924)

Hudson Bay Inuit

Desertion of Old Women (Turner, 1882-1884, 1889-1890)

Eskimo of Baffin Island

Theological Questions (Hall, 1860-1862)

Tribal Life (Bilby, 1923)

Labrador Eskimo

Respect for the Aged (Hawkes, 1914)

Greenland Eskimo

The Old Woman and the Cliff (Nansen, 1893)

Eduard von Hartmann (1842-1906)

Philosophy of the Unconscious

William James (1842-1910)

The Principles of Psychology

Is Life Worth Living?

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Thus Spake Zarathustra: Voluntary Death

The Twilight of the Idols: A Moral for Doctors

African Traditional Sub-Saharan Cultures (documented 1853-)

African Origin Myths

Man Desires Death (Hans Abrahamsson)

Dogon

The Souls of the Dogons (Solange de Ganay, 1937-1939)

LoDagaa

Restraining the Bereaved to Prevent Suicide (Jack Goody, 1962)

Akan

The Detection of Witches: Ordeal and Punishment

Ashanti

Law and Constitution: A Suicide’s Trial (Capt. R. S. Rattray, 1929)

Funeral Rites for Babies and Kings (Capt. R. S. Rattray, 1923-1927, 1929)

The Price of Intrigue with Women of Royal Blood (A. B. Ellis, 1887)

Fante

Killing Oneself “Upon the Head of Another”: The Tragedy of Adjuah Amissah (Brodie Cruickshank, 1853)

Gã

The Prohibition of Death (M. J. Field, 1937)

Ewe

The Criminality of Suicide (A.B. Ellis, 1890)

Yoruba

The Kings of the Yoruba (Samuel Johnson, 1897)

Yoruba Laws and Customs: Suicide (A. K. Ajisafe, 1924)

Igbo

Evil Spirits (Northcote W. Thomas, 1913)

Sacrifices, Death, and Burial (G. T. Basden, 1938)

A Murderer Must Hang Himself

An Old Woman’s Prearranged Funeral (G. T. Basden, 1921)

Zulu

The Timely Death

Godusa: The Old Woman and the Antbear’s Hole (R.C.A. Samuelson, 1929)

Ukugodusa: The First Woman Who Became a Christian (L. H. Samuelson, 1912)

The Burial of a King (R.C.A. Samuelson, 1929)

Banyoro

The Ghost of a Suicide

Dinka

The Folktale of the Four Truths

Burial Alive: The Master of the Fishing-Spear

Hindu Widow, Anonymous (1889)

The Plight of Hindu Widows as Described by a Widow Herself

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Contributions to a Discussion on Suicide

Mourning and Melancholia

The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman

The Economic Problem of Masochism

Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)

Suicide

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Suicide Note, August 17, 1935

The Right to Die

Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

Indian Home Rule

An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Non-Violence in Peace and War

Alfred Adler (1870-1937)

Suicide

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

Letters

John Haynes Holmes (1879-1964)

Is Suicide Justifiable?

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Mrs. Dalloway

A Room of One’s Own

Journal, May 15, 1941

Letter to Leonard Woolf

Paul Tillich (1886-1965)

The Courage to Be

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

Notebooks 1914-1916

Letters

Mao Zedong (1893-1976)

The Suicide of Miss Zhao

Szmul Zygielbojm (1895-1943)

Letter to the President and Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland

Paul-Louis Landsberg (1901-1944)

The Moral Problem of Suicide

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)

Ethics: The Last Things and the Things Before the Last

Albert Camus (1913-1960)

The Myth of Sisyphus

Notebooks 1935-1951

Japanese Naval Special Attack Force (Kamikaze Corps) (b. 1920s, d. 1944/45)

Kamikaze Diaries

Last Letters Home (1944-1945)

Murtaza Mutahhari (1920-1979)

The Martyr: On Jihad, Suicide and Martyrdom

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-)

Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire: In Search of the Enemy of Man

Mary Rose Barrington (1926-)

Apologia for Suicide

Daniel Callahan (1930-)

Reason, Self-determination, and Physician-Assisted Suicide

Peter Y. Windt (1938-)

What Counts as Suicide? It’s Not So Easy to Say