This increase in the number of suicides is no illusion; it is not due to more careful statistics.
During the years since 1900, however, the increase has not only reasserted itself, but has more than made up for the period during which suicideswere less frequent.
The suicidesof women are increasing faster than those of men.
This is especially true with regard to suicides among young people, that is, individuals under twenty-five years of age.
During the last decade this had risen to 196 suicidesper million.
As a matter of fact, suicides are not in possession of free will as a rule, but are the victims of circumstances and are unable to resist external influences.
Most suicides are persons that have been recognised as paranoiacs and likely to do queer things for a long time beforehand.
Many of these early suicideshave distinct tendencies to and stigmata of hebephrenic melancholia.
Love episodes are responsible for most of the suicides in the young, while sickness and physical ills are the causes in the old.
Suicides at all ages are especially likely to occur in groups, and are often cited to exemplify the truth of the old axiom that evils never come singly.
While suicides are more common among men than women in all countries, this is not true for certain ages.
These unfortunate suicides are happening every day.
The suicides of men like Kenneth Armstrong did not just occur.
How about all the suicides we've been having in the last ten years?
How many more suicideswill have to take place at Monte Carlo before France and Italy will make up their minds to improve its gambling-tables off the face of the earth?
But there are a greater number of genuine epileptic and hysterical subjects, lunatics, and indirect suicides among anarchists than among ordinary criminals; greater, too, is the proportion of criminals from passion.
So that indirectly, and virtually, perhaps, all suicides may be traced to mismanaged digestion.
That is the place where all dead bodies found in the river or streets are exhibited--suicides and murdered men and women.
The annual number of suicides in France is nearly six thousand.
The men were evidently suicides and the woman was probably murdered, as there were marks of violence upon her body, which could not have been self-inflicted.
And yet the record seems to show that suicides are relatively rare among poets and artists.
The story of Pasha Tumanow is autobiographical, and registers his hatred of the Russian grammar schools where suicides among the scholars are anything but infrequent.
We should not forget Werther and the trail of sentimental suicides that followed its publication.
Suicides of women are rarer than those of men; desertion by a lover is the commonest cause.
You know that the family brings its suicides hither to burial, because elsewhere they have no place.
I seized my brother's hands and cried to him: "Lorand, till now the fathers were suicides in our family: do you wish that the mothers should continue the list?
Eight hundred suicides bore witness to the strength of the creed held by the Kamakura bushi.
Feigned suicides were among the earliest methods of annoyance.
But whether it might or might not, the news of his death spread rapidly through the prison, and from having occurred but rarely, real or feigned suicides became again quite the fashion.
There are suicides and suicides (in the United States about three thousand of them every year), and I must frankly confess that with perhaps the majority of these my suggestions are impotent to deal.
Suicides don't eat the knife that killed them, lay dead, and then crawl away.
And, in spite of all this, you have manysuicides in the house?
What duets andsuicides on her account and what sensational adventures!
Monsieur," he replied, "the number of suicides increased so enormously during the five years succeeding the world exposition of 1889 that some measures were urgently needed.
A letter found on the desk of one of these "suicides without cause," and written during his last night, beside his loaded revolver, has come into our hands.
The plea set up by the accused that the girl had committed suicide led to the shrewd remark of the judge, Chief Justice Goulbourne, that it was very unusual for suicides to bury themselves after death.
They are too closely watched to be allowed to do themselves much mischief, or suicides would probably be more frequent.
The capital error of this kind of suicides (laying aside the reasons already pointed out), is to think that a cause can be lost.
But is it the same with suicides instigated by a feeling of honor, either to avoid an outrage one is threatened with, or to escape the shame of an outrage one has suffered?
The following passage on the fate of suicides is taken from the Theosophist, September, 1882.
But exceptions are the cases of suicides and those who die a violent death in general.
Their fate in Kâmaloka depends on the conditions which surrounded their outgoings from earthly life, for not all suicides are guilty of felo de se, and the measure of responsibility may vary within very wide limits.
These, whether suicides or killed by accident, can communicate with those in earth-life, but much to their own injury.
I also took the position that some suicides were sane; that they acted on their best judgment, and that they were in full possession of their minds.
There is no relation between the questions--between suicides and killing idiots.
Without doubt many suicides are caused by insanity.
Do you believe that any suicides have been caused or encouraged by your declaration three years ago that suicide sometimes was justifiable?
Suicides were buried on the North side of the church, in ground purposely unconsecrated.
Old German law required that the corpses of criminals and suicides should be carried out through a hole under the threshold.
In the Highlands of Scotland the bodies of suicides were not taken out of the house for burial by the doors, but through an opening made between the wall and the thatch.
These returns exhibit a curious annual uniformity in results; the sort of uniformity which you find in the annual output of suicides in the world's capitals, and the proportions of deaths by this, that, and the other disease.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suicides" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
