Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.
Sir Thomas Browne (1845). “Religio Medici: Together with a Letter to a Friend on the Death of His Intimate Friend and Christian Morals”, p.112
