Status Updates From The Ethics of Suicide: Hist...

“It was in order that so good a man as that, one whose good qualities are so many, so various, so immeasurable, in order that so great a treasure mine of good things, so full of benefit to all beings, might not be done away with, that the Blessed One, O king, out of his mercy towards all beings, laid down that injunction, when he said: "A brother is not…to commit suicide...” - Nāgasena (100 BC)

“For… life is like a great party in which the soul seems to feast, and all the ways of reasonable departure from life correspond to the ways in which a party is broken up.” - Chrysippus

Absolutely wild metaphor

“Alas, woman, it is a dread deed you have accomplished!” - Euripides

“Suicide is an event of human nature, which, whatever may be said and done with respect to it, demands the sympathy of every man, and in every epoch must be discussed anew.” - Goethe, Truth and Poetry: From my Own Life

This is going to take me forever to read, but alas bits must be committed to