WOMAN’S SUICIDE
CANCER VICTIM’S NOTE Received Aug. 20, 11.50 p.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 19. A message from Pasadena, California, states one country’s foremost women writers and lecturers, Mrs Charlotte Perkins Gilman, aged 75, has committed suicide. The police revealed that. Mrs Gilman was suffering from cancer and used chloroform. She left a note, justifying suicide in her case. The nolo rend: “No grief, pain or misfortune is an excuse for cutting off one’s life while any power for service remains, but when all usefulness is over and when one is assured of unavoidable imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick, easy death in place of a slow, horrible one. ’ ’ r
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 196, 22 August 1935, Page 7
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116WOMAN’S SUICIDE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 196, 22 August 1935, Page 7
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