After the May 4th Movement, western philosophy and literary thoughts entered China, and the mentality of literati began to change. When Wang Yiren committed suicide, he was lovelorn. Zhu Xiang committed suicide because of economic distress; Wang Guowei's suicide was influenced by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer's philosophy in the west, and his thought of safeguarding human dignity and "grand" aesthetics were due to many reasons.

During the Cultural Revolution, the famous writer Deng Tuo was the former editor-in-chief and president of People's Daily. 1May 8, 966, hanged himself and became the first martyr to fight death in that extraordinary period. Later, a group of writers such as Lao She, Wen Jie and Fu Lei committed suicide.

In Fu Lei's memory, later generations commented: "He is the king of his own spiritual world, which is the source of all his pain and anger. He committed suicide not because he was humiliated, but because he wanted to commit suicide. "

Writers who committed suicide in recent years include:

The famous poet Haizi. Sleeping on the tracks of Shanhaiguan and committing suicide.

Gu Cheng, a famous poet, hacked his wife to death and committed suicide after moving to an island in New Zealand.

Gomez, a Peking University poet, drowned himself near Yuanmingyuan. Another Peking University poet, Yu Hai, committed suicide by lying on the track near Shanhaiguan.

Known as "the father of reportage", China poet and writer Xu Chi committed suicide by jumping off a building in the hospital.

Zhang Chunru, who ended the second Japanese invasion of China with the Nanjing Massacre, committed suicide at home.

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Aristotle, a famous Greek philosopher. In 322 BC, he committed suicide by jumping into the sea in the Eripa Strait at the age of 62. It is said that when he committed suicide, he said, "May the water of Eripa engulf me, because I can't understand it."

Socrates made a lot of contributions to western moral philosophy. Finally, he died because he insisted on his beliefs. In the case of exile or death, he chose death and committed suicide by drinking venom.

18th century later, many western literati chose suicide as the way to end their lives: as early as191165438+1October 25th, Marx's son-in-law lavr Gai chose euthanasia on his 70th birthday. Meanwhile, his 69-year-old wife Laura committed suicide. The reason why they committed suicide was that Laverg decided not to let their lives exceed 70 years old, so as not to "become a burden to themselves and others".

Jack London, who wrote "Love Life" and other works, committed suicide on 19 16 in the pessimistic disappointment of extremely empty spirit; As he himself wrote: "After reaching the top, I found everything was empty."

Hemingway, known as the "tough guy school", has a great influence on American literature. 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature by the Science Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy. In his later years, he suffered from hypertension, diabetes, iron metabolism disorder and other diseases, and his mental depression was very serious. In Hemingway's thrilling legendary life, death almost always accompanied him, and he also narrowly escaped death again and again; Until the morning of July 2nd 196 1, this time, there was no accident because the director himself died.

For Zweig, the reason for choosing suicide to end his life is: "My spiritual hometown was destroyed." 1933 After Hitler seized power, Zweig's works were burned together with those of Heine, thomas mann and many other Jewish writers. 1February 22, 942, although far away in war-torn Europe, Zweig was completely desperate for peace when the news came that Japan had entered the war and Singapore had fallen. He left a short suicide note, saying, "I will use my body to oppose the war and my life to maintain peace."