There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others
Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.130, tredition
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