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Suicide: Its History, Literature, Jurisprudence, Causation, and Prevention

Chapter 52: INDEX.
By W. Wynn Westcott
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A comprehensive social‑science treatise examining self‑inflicted death from multiple angles: historical and literary examples, legal responses including criminality, insurance, and wills, statistical rates and demographic patterns, and causes spanning mental illness, physical disease, addiction, social conditions, religion, occupation, and imitation. It surveys means and seasonality, urban versus rural differences, age and sex distributions, military and prison contexts, and colonial settings, and includes case material from coroner investigations. The final sections address prevention, treatment, and policy recommendations, and the work concludes with bibliographical and statistical appendices.

INDEX.

  • Abercrombie on Suicide, 124.
  • Advanced Views on Suicide, 5.
  • Afghan Surgeon, Suicide of an, 121.
  • Age, Effect of, 109.
  • Alcohol, Abuse of, 136, 156, 170.
  • Animals, Suicide of, 174.
  • Anomalies of Law, 160.
  • Aphelion, 69.
  • Archway at Highgate, 131.
  • Aristotle on Suicide, 9, 91, 176.
  • Army, Suicide in the, 98.
  • Assurance Companies, 180.
  • Asylums, Foreign, 127.
  • Asylums, Use of, 168.
  • Athens, Ancient, 9.
  • Attempted Suicide, 156.
  • Attitude of Assurance Companies, 180.
  • Austria, Suicide in, 61, 62, 96, 99, 146.
  • Austrian Suicide Law, 50.
  • Axe, Professor, on Suicide, 176.
  • Bailey, Nathan, on Origin of the Name Suicide, 31.
  • Balzac on Suicide, 41.
  • Beccaria on Suicide, 42.
  • Belgium, Suicide in, 60, 62.
  • Bentham on Suicide, 47.
  • Berenice, Suicide of, 16.
  • Berlin, Suicide Rate in, 95.
  • Bible, Suicides of the, 17.
  • Bibliographical Index, 182.
  • Blandford on Suicide, 120.
  • Bleeding, Use of, 169.
  • Blindness, Effect of, 135.
  • Bodily Disease, 135.
  • Bodio, Formula of, 61.
  • Borrodaile v. Hunter, 53.
  • Brahmins, Suicide among, 11, 161.
  • Brierre de Boismont, 83, 106, 111, 173.
  • Broussais on Causes of Suicide, 66.
  • Buckmill and Tuke on Suicide, 121, 123.
  • Burial of a Suicide, 45.
  • Burrows v. Burrows, 56.
  • Calanus, 11.
  • Calcutta, Suicide Rate of, 162.
  • Carbonic Acid Gas, 146.
  • Cato, 22, 38.
  • Causation, 65.
  • Causes, Tables of, 70, 72, 73, 74.
  • Celibacy, 112, 155.
  • Ceos, 7.
  • Chambers v. Queen’s Proctor, 57.
  • Charcoal Stoves, 147.
  • Chatterton, Suicide of, 132.
  • Childhood, 111.
  • Children, Effect of having, 114.
  • China, Suicide in, 13.
  • Christian Church, 3, 14.
  • Chrysostom, St., 16.
  • Cities, 93, 94.
  • Classical Authors, 30.
  • Suicides, 18.
  • Climate, 78.
  • Cloister, Use of the, 173.
  • Coal Gas, Suicide by, 153.
  • Colton on Suicide, 37.
  • Commerce, 96.
  • Confessional, 173.
  • Convict Life, 100.
  • Coroner, Warrant of, 45.
  • Councils of the Church, 14.
  • Crime, 90, 154.
  • Crucifixion, 152.
  • Curious means of Suicide, 153.
  • Cut-throat, 146.
  • Dabadie on Suicide, 121.
  • Deafness, 135.
  • Decrease of Crime, 155.
  • Dementia, 124, 126.
  • Denmark, Suicide Rate in, 60, 62, 89.
  • Desfontaines, 31, 39.
  • Despine on the Causes of Suicide, 67.
  • Development of Mind, 156.
  • Drowning, 145.
  • Drunkenness, 137.
  • Ecclesiastical Law, 15.
  • Education increases Suicide Rate, 81, 112, 156.
  • Education decreases Crime, 155.
  • Egypt, Suicide in, 13.
  • Elam on Suicide, 92, 133.
  • Emigration, 76, 152.
  • Employment, 95.
  • England, Suicide in,
  • Army of, 98.
  • Navy of, 99.
  • Prisons of, 100.
  • Epicureans, 3, 10.
  • Epilepsy, 119, 171.
  • Epidemic Suicide, 129.
  • Etna, Mount, 133.
  • Europe, Suicide in, 151.
  • Failed, Suicide, 156.
  • Falls, Suicide by, 134, 146.
  • Family Life, 89, 126.
  • Fascination, 134.
  • in Animals, 178.
  • Felo-de-se, 43, 160.
  • Female Suicide, 105, 108, 109, 110.
  • Fire Arms, 145.
  • Fleming, R., on Suicide, 34.
  • Forfeitures by Suicide, 45, 46.
  • Forms of Lunacy, 123.
  • Found Drowned, 59.
  • France, Laws in, 16, 50.
  • Suicide in, 61, 62, 63, 83, 115, 151.
  • Gas, Suicide by, 146, 153.
  • German Law on Suicide, 49.
  • Germany, Suicide Rates in, 60, 62, 87, 114, 125, 152.
  • Gibbon on Suicide, 47.
  • Goethe on Suicide, 41.
  • Greece, Ancient, 7.
  • Greek terms for Suicide, 32.
  • Hamlet, 33.
  • Hanging, 145.
  • Hegesias, 129.
  • Heredity, 138.
  • Hindoos, 11.
  • History of Suicide, 7.
  • Holland, Suicide in, 60, 61.
  • Horn v. Assurance Company, 55.
  • Horse, Suicide of, 176.
  • Hours of the Day, 106.
  • Hume, David, 3, 36.
  • Hysteria, 109.
  • Iago on Suicide, 33.
  • Imbecility, 124, 125.
  • Imitation, 131.
  • Increase of Suicide, 58, 60, 62.
  • India, Suicide in, 161.
  • Insanity, 116-128.
  • not proved by Suicide, 47, 48, 56, 160.
  • Insomnia, 136.
  • Ireland, Suicide in, 150.
  • Italy, Suicide in, 60, 62, 110, 113, 151.
  • Prisons of, 101.
  • Japan, Suicide in, 13.
  • Jews, Suicide among the, 2, 11, 85.
  • very liable to lunacy, 86.
  • Johnson, Dr., on Suicide, 36.
  • on Suicide of Scorpions, 177.
  • Jurisprudence, Civil, 51.
  • Criminal, 43.
  • Koor in India, 162.
  • Latin terms for Suicide, 31.
  • Laws on Suicide, 43.
  • Foreign, on Suicide, 49.
  • Indian, on Suicide, 161.
  • Lea River, Corpses in the, 60.
  • Legoyt on Suicide, 42.
  • Lindsay on Animal Suicide, 177.
  • Lisle on Suicide causes, 73.
  • Literature of Suicide, 29.
  • London, Rate of Suicide in, 94.
  • means of Suicide in, 149.
  • Louis IX., 15.
  • XIV., 16.
  • Love Affairs, 142.
  • Lunacy, 116-128.
  • Lunatics, Suicide of, 44, 123.
  • Lyons, Epidemic at, 130.
  • MacAdam v. Walker, 56.
  • Madness, Amount of, 125.
  • Mania, 123, 125, 126.
  • Marriage, 112, 114.
  • Second, 115.
  • Marseilles, 130.
  • Marshes, 79.
  • Martyrdom, 2.
  • Maupertius, 39.
  • Means of Cure, 171.
  • Means of Suicide, 144.
  • in India, 165.
  • Medical Men, Suicide of, 143.
  • Melancholia, 123, 124, 126.
  • Mental Diseases,
  • Metempsychosis, 2.
  • Mexico, 13.
  • Middle Ages, Suicides of the, 24.
  • Miletus, Suicide in, 129.
  • Military Life, 98.
  • Modern Suicides, 24.
  • Mohammedans, Suicide among, 12, 161.
  • Monday, 105.
  • Monomania, 123, 125, 126.
  • Moon, Effect of the, 102, 104.
  • Montaigne, 10, 38.
  • Monument, The, 131, 133.
  • Morality, 89.
  • Morselli on Suicide, 29, 42, 69, 87, 100, 104.
  • Moses, 2.
  • Mountains, 79.
  • Navy, 98, 151.
  • Negroes, 14, 76.
  • New York, Suicide in, 95, 152.
  • Norway, Suicide in, 60, 62, 87.
  • Notable Suicides, 17.
  • Novels, Famous, 92.
  • Nuns, 95.
  • Occupation, 95.
  • Odin, 14.
  • Old Age, 110.
  • Origin of the Name Suicide, 31.
  • Othello, 33.
  • Over-pressure, 112.
  • Pain, Suicide from, 135, 164.
  • Paine, Tom, on Suicide, 37.
  • Paris, Suicide in, 132.
  • Pellagra, 130.
  • Perihelion, 69.
  • Persia, 12.
  • Peru, 13.
  • Pessimism, 132.
  • Philosophy encourages Suicide, 3.
  • Poison, 146, 148
  • Police, The, 155, 159.
  • Policies voided by Suicide, 180.
  • Portugal, Suicide in, 60, 87.
  • Post Mortem appearances, 122.
  • Predisposition, Hereditary, 138.
  • Present Rates of Suicide, 58.
  • Prevention, 166.
  • Prison Life, 100.
  • Prostitutes, 90.
  • Protestantism, 85, 87.
  • Protestants, Morselli’s Table of Suicide by, 87.
  • Puerperal Suicide, 170.
  • Quetelet on Crime, 154.
  • R. v. Alison, 43.
  • R. v. Dyson, 43, 48.
  • R. v. Fisher, 48.
  • R. v. Gathercole, 48.
  • R. v. May, 48.
  • Race, Effects of, 75.
  • Railways, 96.
  • Rare Means, 153.
  • Regent’s Canal, 59.
  • Religion, 85, 172.
  • Revenge, 162.
  • Revivalism, 88.
  • Ritualism, 88.
  • Rome, Ancient, Suicide in, 9.
  • Suicide Law in, 10.
  • Roman Catholics, Suicide Rates of, 85.
  • Rousseau, 3, 40.
  • Rural Life, 93.
  • Russia, Suicide in, 145.
  • Saints, Suicide of, 16.
  • Salvation Army, 88.
  • Sati, 163.
  • Savages, 156.
  • Scandinavia, 14.
  • School Tasks, 112.
  • Schopenhauer, 132.
  • Schwabe v. Clift, 53.
  • Scorpions, Suicide of, 176.
  • Scotland, Suicide in, 149, 150.
  • Seasons, Effect of the, 102, 154.
  • Sex, 107, 152.
  • Shakespeare, 33.
  • Sleep, Value of, 172.
  • Sleeplessness, 136, 172.
  • Spain, Suicide in, 60, 87, 107.
  • Specific Rates of Suicide, 75.
  • Spiritualism, 140.
  • Spite, 142.
  • Stael, Madame de, 2, 40.
  • Starvation, Suicide by, 152.
  • Stephen, Sir J., on Suicide, 48.
  • Stoics, the, 3, 10, 132.
  • Stone in the Bladder, 10.
  • Stoves, 147.
  • Sun, Effects of the, 102.
  • Suffocation as a means, 146.
  • Surgeons, Suicide of, 143.
  • Sunday, 105.
  • Sweden. Suicide in, 60, 62, 87, 111.
  • Tædium Vitæ, 141.
  • Taine on Suicide, 41.
  • Tall Races, 77.
  • Tarantulism, 130.
  • Temporary Insanity, 44, 46.
  • Tendency, Morning, to Suicide, 170.
  • Thames, Corpses in the, 59.
  • Thomas, Dr. Danford, on Suicide from Spite, 142.
  • Thebes, 9.
  • Throat-cut, 146.
  • Timon of Athens, 8.
  • Tissot on Suicide, 49, 66.
  • Town Life, 93.
  • Trades, 95.
  • Trousseau on Epilepsy, 119.
  • Tuke and Bucknill, 121, 123.
  • Urban Life, 93.
  • Utopia of More, 32.
  • Valhalla, 14.
  • Vertigo, Epileptic, 119.
  • Vesuvius, Mount, 133.
  • Vindictiveness, 142.
  • Virginity, 113.
  • Void Policies, 180.
  • Voltaire, 3, 39.
  • Warrant of a Coroner, 45.
  • Wars, 96, 113.
  • Waterloo, Battle of, 133.
  • Werter, Sorrows of, 41.
  • White v. Brit. Emp. Co., 55.
  • Widowhood, 112.
  • Winslow, F., on Suicide, 29.
  • Women choose Sunday for Suicide, 105.
  • Youth, 110.
  • Zeno, 3, 10.

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