In fact a great number of persons formed an academy called The Synapothanoumenes, who had for their object the idea of dying together.

In Western Europe, as shown in the ceremonies of the Druids, we find among the Celts a propensity for suicide and an indifference to self-torture.

The Gauls were similarly minded, believing in the dogma of immortality and eternal repose.

They thought little of bodily cares and ills.

In Greece and Rome there was always an apology for suicide and death in the books of the philosophers.