“USEFULNESS OVER”
REASONS FOR SUICIDE A WOMAN WRITER'S NOTE By Telegraph—Copyright—Press As. NEW YORK, August 19. A message from Pasadena, California, states that one of the country's foremost women writers and lecturers, Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, aged 75, committed suicide. The police revealed that Mrs. Gilman, who was suffering from cancer, used chloroform. She left a note justifying suicide in her case. The note read: “No grief, pain or misfortune is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains, but when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of unavoidable and evident death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick, easy death in place of a slow, horrible one.”
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 191, 21 August 1935, Page 7
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