Deaths
- 9 February - Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist and Australian colonial politician (born 1816).
- 5 April - Mary Anne Sadlier, novelist (born 1820).
- 24 April - Walter Osborne, impressionist painter (born 1859).
- 27 April - William Travers, lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist in New Zealand (born 1819).
- 25 July - John Michael Clancy, Democratic Party United States Representative from New York (born 1837).
- 12 September - Maxwell Henry Close, geologist (born 1822).
- 22 October - William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian (born 1838).
- 24 October - Rev. James William Adams, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in Afghanistan (1879) (born 1839).
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“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
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“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
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