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Suicide

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Images

  • The suicide of Cato. Etching by P. Testa, 1648.
  • A shell-shocked man in a uniform of the British Army seated on a rock, with a sunset behind, about to kill himself. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1973.
  • A destitute girl throws herself from a bridge, her life ruined by alcoholism. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848.
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  • The death of Cleopatra. Etching by or after A. Hirschvogel, 1547.
  • The wife of Hasdrubal the Boetharch, seeing the defeat of Carthage by the Romans, throws herself and her children into a blazing temple in front of distressed onlookers. Engraving by P. Woeiriot.
  • Tillingham : A second Virgin Mary! : from some fragmentary leaves, in the possession of Charles Clark. (Fac-simile reprint) / printed by Charles Clark, (an amateur) at his Private Press.
  • An episode in The sorrows of young Werther, by Goethe: Albert, the husband of Charlotte, asks his wife to comply with Werther's request to lend him his pistols; she hands them to Werther's servant boy, knowing that Werther will shoot himself with them. Line engraving by P. Bonato after J.H. Ramberg.
  • Suttee, with Lord Hastings shown as accepting bribes to allow its continuation. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1815, after Quiz.
  • The suicides of Pyramus and Thisbe: Thisbe and Pyramus lying dead in front of Ninus' tomb, having stabbed themselves with the sword next to them. Line engraving by V. Vangelisti after G. Reni.
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Works

    • Books

    To be, or not to be : a study of suicide / by Louis I. Dublin and Bessie Bunzel.

    Dublin, Louis I. (Louis Israel), 1882-1969. | Date: 1933
    • Books

    Trauma castle : childhood stories and surviving them / [Billy Bitter].

    Bitter, Billy | Date: [2017?]
    • Books

    Suicide in Asia and the Near East / edited by Lee A. Headley ; with a foreword by Norman L. Farberow.

    | Date: [1983], ©1983
  • view The principles of forensic medicine : systematically arranged, and applied to British practice / By John Gordon Smith.
    • Books
    • Online

    The principles of forensic medicine : systematically arranged, and applied to British practice / By John Gordon Smith.

    Smith, John Gordon, 1792-1833 | Date: 1824
    • Books

    Suicide / edited by Alec Roy.

    | Date: [1986], ©1986
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