“ With life so precarious, and opportunity for the happiness of life so remote, it is inevitable that life shall be cheap and suicide common. ”
Jack London, The People of the Abyss (1903). copy citation
| Author | Jack London |
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| Source | The People of the Abyss |
| Topic | suicide happiness |
| Date | 1903 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_People_of_the_Abyss |
Context
“In either case they must forego home and children and all that makes life worth living and old age other than a nightmare.
CHAPTER XXII
SUICIDE
England is the paradise of the rich, the purgatory of the wise, and the hell of the poor.
—Theodore Parker.
With life so precarious, and opportunity for the happiness of life so remote, it is inevitable that life shall be cheap and suicide common. So common is it, that one cannot pick up a daily paper without running across it; while an attempt-at-suicide case in a police court excites no more interest than an ordinary drunk, and is handled with the same rapidity and unconcern.”
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