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William Wynn Westcott. Suicide
Suicide
Table of Contents
Chapter I. Introduction
Chapter II. The History of Suicide
Chapter III. Notable Suicides
I.─Mentioned in the Bible
II.─Classical
III.─Middle Ages and Modern Times
Chapter IV. Literature
Foreign Literature
Chapter V. Criminal Jurisprudence
Chapter VI. Civil Jurisprudence
Chapter VII. Present Suicide Rate and Increase
Chapter VIII. The Causation of Suicide
Chapter IX. Race, Geographical Influences, and Climate
Climate and Geographical Data
Chapter X. Education, Religion, and Morals
The Influence of Religion
Morality
Chapter XI. Urban and Rural Life; Employment; Army, Navy, and Prison Life
Employment
Military and Naval Life
Prison Life
Chapter XII. Seasons and Times
Chapter XIII. Sex, Age, and Social State
Age
Suicide in Childhood
Marriage, Celibacy, Widowhood
Chapter XIV. Insanity in Relation to Suicide
The Forms of Lunacy
Chapter XV. Epidemic Suicide; Suicide From Imitation, and Desire for Notoriety
Chapter XVI. Bodily Diseases; Insomnia, Spiritualism, Heredity, and Alcoholism
Insomnia
Alcohol
Heredity
Spiritualism
Chapter XVII. Tædium-vitæ, The Passions, Misery and Despair
Chapter XVIII. The Means of Suicide
Chapter XIX. Suicide and Crime Compared; And Attempted Suicide
Attempted Suicide
The Law of Suicidal Attempts
Chapter XX. Suicide in British India
Revenge or Accusation
Religion
Physical Suffering
Grief, Shame, and Jealousy
Chapter XXI. The Prevention of Suicide, and the Treatment of the Suicidal Tendency in the Insane
Suicide of the Insane
Suicide of Sane Persons
Chapter XXII. Suicide of Animals
Appendix. The Attitude of Assurance Companies to the Suicide
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William Wynn Westcott
Its History, Literature, Jurisprudence, Causation, and Prevention
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A very long interval occurs here, during which period I cannot discover any Notable Suicides: on passing to the next series a great change will be noticed as to causation, the days of suicide for honour are passed: Misery has become the mainspring.
Richard II., King of England, 1399. Some historians, as Walsingham, Otterbourne, and Peter of Blois, say that this king starved himself to death.
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