Ritual Suicide
Ritual suicide is performed in a prescribed way, often as part of a religious or cultural practice.
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“Romance reading and writing might be seen ... as a collectively elaborated female ritual through which women explore the consequences of their common social condition as the appendages of men and attempt to imagine a more perfect state where all the needs they so intensely feel and accept as given would be adequately addressed.”
—Janice A. Radway (b. 1949)
“Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.”
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