She almost invariably hangs herself; when there are so many beautiful lakes near her where she could die an easier death, and at the same time one that would tell better, than where she fastens an old leather strap about her neck, and dies literally by choking.

But there is this to be taken into consideration.

When she hangs herself near the village, she can manage affairs so that she can be cut down if she concludes to live a little longer; for this frequently occurs, and the suicide lives forty and sometimes sixty years after.

But when Wenona took the resolution of ending her earthly sorrows, no doubt there were other passions beside love influencing her mind.
Love was the most powerful.

With him she loved, life would have been all happiness--without him, all misery.