According to Brierre de Boismont, voluntary mutilation or death was very rare among the Chaldeans, the Persians, or the Hebrews, their precepts being different from those mentioned.

The Hebrews in particular had an aversion to self-murder, and during a period in their history of 4000 years there were only eight or ten suicides recorded.

Josephus shows what a marked influence on suicides the invasion of the Romans among the Hebrews had.
In Africa, as in India, there were Gymnosophists.

In Egypt Sesostris, the grandest king of the country, having lost his eyesight in his old age, calmly and deliberately killed himself.

About the time of Mark Anthony and Cleopatra, particularly after the battle of Actium, suicide was in great favor in Egypt.