Death pays all debts for him, settles all scores, and he is not looked upon with aversion or execrated.

Even Chinese women have resorted to this extreme method of settling their accounts.

But what of their settlement with their Maker who gave them life, who holds all men responsible for that gift, who expects us to use the boon aright?
A Chinaman does not value life with the same feeling and estimate as an Anglo-Saxon.

Should he fail in any great purpose, should he meet with defeat in some cherished plan, he will seek refuge in the bosom of the grave; he will voluntarily return to his ancestors whom he has worshipped as gods.

In the late war between China and Japan, in which China was vanquished, some of her generals committed suicide.