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Virgil praises Cato's suicide as death for freedom, even though suicide is a sin in Catholic teaching.
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Suicide
Durkheim's suicide argument, as Jiang presents it, is that Protestant individual struggle produces energy but also abandonment, hopelessness, and higher suicide than Catholic communal ritual.
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Dido's social collapse is total in Jiang's reading: she has lost Aeneas, broken faith with her dead husband, lost public respect, and faces hostile neighboring warlords.
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Dido's arc is from proud queen to emotional collapse, including the thought of begging to become a slave girl if it keeps her near Aeneas.
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Jiang defines MAID as medical assistance in dying, euthanasia, and describes it as the government helping people kill themselves when life feels meaningless, depression is present, or disease feels incurable.
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Jiang links the global spread of smartphone-era social media after around 2015 to spikes in depressive symptoms and suicide across North America, Europe, Latin America, and East Asia.
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Durkheim's suicide argument, as Jiang presents it, is that Protestant individual struggle produces energy but also abandonment, hopelessness, and higher suicide than Catholic communal ritual.
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In response to a student prompt, Jiang says Protestant logic can treat suicide less as sin than as weakness or evidence of insufficient faith, while Durkheim treats suicide as disconnection from community.
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Protestants are more likely to kill themselves, in Jiang's Durkheim reading, because Protestantism is more individualistic than Catholicism.
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"Now may it please you to approve his coming. He goes in search of liberty, so precious and as he who gives his life..."
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"Found death for freedom was not bitter when you left a garb that will be bright on the great day."
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"...is saying is like, you died a noble death. Even though suicide is considered a sin in the Catholic Church. Okay, keep on going."
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"All right, so what he's saying is this. Ditto. If it were up to me, I wouldn't say it would be, I wouldn't say..."
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"...Italy. And so she decides eventually that her only solution is suicide. But she has a sister, Anna, who will keep watch over her...."
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"okay so again the idea here is for Homer love is what gives you strength love is what allows you to resurrect yourself okay..."
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"She's seriously considering being a slave girl if it just means being near Aeneas. And ultimately, she decides, no, my only option is to..."
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"...but 25 years ago, this was illegal in the world, right? Suicide was illegal. If you help someone kill himself, you'd be put in..."
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"...This huge spike, which has led to a huge spike in suicide, all right? And this is happening throughout the"
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"world, not only in North America and Europe, but also in Latin America and East Asia as well. So the call of the self,..."
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"...a French sociologist, and his most famous book is called On Suicide. He's trying to discuss why is it that Protestants are much more..."
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"...absolutely right, okay? You're absolutely right. So in the Catholic religion, suicide is the worst sin that you can commit. Okay? And in the..."
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