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The entire archive is here.
Note: This site serves as an excellent resource for those contemplating the ethics of suicide. The archive has brief entries. The entries are categorized by author as well as by geographical region, era, and intellectual/religious/cultural traditions. Finally, there are categories of sin versus martyrdom.