On the Causes of Frequent Suicide: A Psychological Treatise

Among the incomprehensible actions that proceed from the free will of man, suicide undoubtedly belongs, the crime against oneself, by which one arbitrarily puts an end to one's life earlier than it would have occurred in the undisturbed course of nature. We rightly assert the incomprehensibility of the free expression of power and will, which we encompass under the name of suicide. Let us linger with our gaze, observing, on God's wide