The man who commits suicide has to turn his back on the church, the law and his own strongest instinct, self-preservation. Yet in an average year, 22,000* people in the U.S. kill themselves; 100,000 more try and fail. Why? According to a survey circulated last week, a large percentage of them are mentally unbalanced, and presumably incapable of making sound moral judgments.
For the survey, reported in the magazine Diseases of the Nervous System, three members of the Chicago Psychiatric Institute made an intensive study of 100 people who lived after trying to kill themselves. Of the 100 cases, 40 were sent...
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