An Encyclopedia of Famous SuicidesIncludes the name, date and place of birth and death, and a short description of the life of 334 famous suicides throughout history from Socrates, Pontius Pilate, and Pyramis and Thisbe to Virginia Woolf, Jan Masaryk, Yukiko Okada, and Elizabeth Stanton. It's not as morbid or gratuitous as it sounds |
Contents
ABIMELECH | 9 |
TAKEO ARISHIMA | 15 |
VICTORIA BENEDICTSSON | 31 |
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