Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious concepti…

Emile Durkheim
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Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc. ✨ John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). Suicide, p.63, Simon and Schuster
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Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc. ✨ John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). Suicide, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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