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Alucard

Alucard

Wizard
Feb 8, 2019
606
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"I thought of this crowd of suicides: more than eight thousand five hundred in one year. And it seemed to me that they had combined to send to the world a prayer, to utter a cry of appeal, to demand something that should come into effect later when we understood things better. It seemed to me that all these victims, their throats cut, poisoned, hung, asphyxiated, or drowned, all came together, a frightful horde, like citizens to the polls, to say to society:

"Grant us, at least, a gentle death! Help us to die, you who will not help us to live! See, we are numerous, we have the right to speak in these days of freedom, of philosophic independence and of popular suffrage. Give to those who renounce life the charity of a death that will not be repugnant nor terrible."

Maupassant, The magic couch : http://www.online-literature.com/maupassant/4270/
 
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Darkover

Darkover

Archangel
Jul 29, 2021
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i think evil is winning here i mean how many more poor people have to die in horrible ways when there are much more better safe methods to commit suicide, life isn't for everyone and never could be.
 
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Alucard

Alucard

Wizard
Feb 8, 2019
606
"Give to those who renounce life the charity of a death that will not be repugnant nor terrible." Maupassant
 
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jimmy7754

jimmy7754

I just want to be myself again
Dec 15, 2021
508
Help me please
 
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hendrix18712

hendrix18712

Member
May 28, 2022
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He was ahead of his time, shame that no modern societies actually practice this.
 
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