The first one to consider life like a disease people can recover from by committing suicide, was Socrates: just before dying, as a suicide, the Greek philosopher begs his friend Critone not to forget to sacrifice a cock to Asclepio (Esculapio for the Romans) ,god of medicine. At present there are a lot of people who think in the same way and turning to suicide is so increasing as to assume the features of a real epidemic.

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