Melancholy suicide. - This is connected with a general state of extrem…

Emile Durkheim
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Melancholy suicide. - This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract. ✨ John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). Suicide, p.63, Simon and Schuster
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