Suicide: Its History, Literature, Jurisprudence, Causation, and Prevention

by W. Wynn Westcott

Saul’s Armour Bearer, an Amalekite, loc. cit.

Ahitophel, 1023 B.C., Counsellor of David. II. Samuel, cap. xvii.

Zimri, 929 B.C., King of Israel. II. Kings, cap. xvi.

Eleazar, 164 B.C., one of the Maccabees. I. Maccabees, cap. vi.

Razis, 162 B.C., a Jewish Elder. II. Maccabees, cap. xiv.

Judas Iscariot, A.D. 33, the Traitor. Acts, cap. i.

Pontius Pilate, A.D. 36, Procurator of Judaea. Josephus. Antiquities, xviii., 4, 1, 2, and also Eusebius, History, cap. ii. 7.

II.─Classical.

Sesostris, or Rameses the Great, King of Egypt, killed himself in despair at having lost his sight.

Menon, 2000 B.C., Governor of Nineveh, first husband of Semiramis, afterwards Queen of Assyria; he hung himself when Ninus the King became enamoured of his wife.