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Melancholy suicide. - This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him.

Melancholy suicide. - This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract.

Emile Durkheim
Suicide, Sadness, People
John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.

Emile Durkheim
Sadness, Light, Facts
John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.

Emile Durkheim
Sadness, Mean, Doe
Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.333, Routledge

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