Название: The History of Suicide in IndiaАвтор: Tharkur Upendra
Издательство: Munshi Ram Manohar Lal
Жанр: Юридические науки
Год издания: 1963
Страниц: 264
Язык: Английский
Формат: PDF
Размер: 28 Мб
On account of its very nature, the subject of suicide does not, ordinarily, provoke sustained curiosity. The question put by Hamlet, “To be or not to be,” poses before most minds a purely ethical problem. Shakespeare also referred to, “A sea of troubles” and “The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks the flesh is heir to,” as factors responsible for suicide. However, it is not difficult to perceive, after a little reflection, that the methods of ending life and the circumstances leading to that cruel decision, are probably as varied as those of procuring means for supporting it. Yet a scientific study of suicide, of the problem of conscience vis-a-vis the thousand natural shocks it receives, has disclosed considerable scope for arriving at several general conclusions. Dr. Upendra Thakur’s The History of Suicide in India is a part of such study.