The effect was admirable, and pleased the spectators even more than the patient.
Opium is almost exclusively the drug used by suicides.

No Chinaman would kill himself by the mutilation of the razor or pistol-shot because awful is the future punishment of him who would so dare to disturb the integrity of the body bequeathed to him by his fathers.
China is the land of suicides.

I suppose more people die from suicide in China in proportion to the population than in any other country.

Where the struggle for existence is so keen, it is hardly to be wondered at that men are so willing to abandon the struggle.

But poverty and misery are not the only causes.