WOULD-BE SUICIDES
ADVISED TO HOLD OFF
A VIENNA-PARTY
LONDON, 31st December. There was the strangest New Year party at Vienna, where more than 1000 prospective Buicides .were entertained by the "Advisory Centre" for intending suicides.
. This society was established in 1928 owing to the number. of suicides due to Austria's economic distress. The society invites would-be suicides to visit the Advisory Centre under promise that the police will1 not be informed in any circumstances.
The society claims that it has saved the lives, of 70 per cont. of the "consultants." The rest persisted in suicide. The New Year guests' included starving mothers with gaunt-eyed, skeleton babies who were perhaps enjoying their last meal on earth; also a number of well-to Tdo young men and women facing love tragedies, a few humourists—chiefly Viennese artists—who are in death mood, and some members of Stevenson's Suicide Club?
The secretary says ho hopes that the good meal and the mutual'exchange of confidences may prove to many that existence is not utterly unbearable.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1932, Page 11
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