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Aberration of Mind by Sommerville Diane Miller;

Author:Sommerville, Diane Miller; , Date: March 6, 2020 ,Views: 215

Aberration of Mind by Sommerville Diane Miller;

Author:Sommerville, Diane Miller;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press


Chapter 8

Cumberer of the Earth

The Secularization of Suffering and Suicide

In destroying the instinct of self-preservation, creating it into self-destruction, the suicide is brave. We may well imagine how life—so sweet to all—may become unbearable. We may easily conceive how the mind, sapped of its strength by some misfortune, may become so weak as not able to bear even the ordinary burdens incident to life. But the fear to die is never lessened, and when the suicide overcomes the principle it is an act of courage.

—New Orleans Times, May 25, 1866



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