Suicides’ Club Saves Many Lives
STRANGE NEW YEAR PARTY Received Friday, 7.00 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 31? There was the strangest New YeaT party at Vienna, where over 1000 prospective suicides were entertained by an advisory centre for intending suicides. The society was established in 1928 ewing to the number of suicides due to 'Austria’s economic distress. The society invites would-bo suicides to visit the advisory centre, under promise that the police will not be informed in any circumstances. The society claims that it has saved the lives of 70 per cent, iof the consultants. The Test preferred suicide.
The New Year guests included starving mothers with gaunt-eyed skeleton babies, perhaps enjoying their last meal on earth, a number of well-to-do young men and women facing love tragedies, and a few humorists, chiefly Vienncso artists, who were facing the death mood.
The club secretary says that the hopo of a good meal and a mutual exchange of confidences may prove to many that Existence is not utterly unbearable.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6746, 2 January 1932, Page 7
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