There was one time, however, when his face clouded and he suddenly blurted, `` Why did my brother commit suicide ''??

While he was at it, the philosopher of the Kremlin contributed an additional assist to the rule of reason by bellowing at those in the west who can't appreciate coexistence thru suicide.

It was reported to Welch's office that a thief in the city jail had attempted suicide.

In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd he allowed the murderer to escape justice through suicide and then ensured the truth was never known to spare the feelings of the murderer's relatives.

An inquest determined that his death was suicide ; his mother and some others believed his death was accidental.

The Triumvirate was eventually torn apart under the competing ambitions of its members: Lepidus was driven into exile and stripped of his position, and Antony committed suicide following his defeat at the Battle of Actium by Augustus in 31 BC.

Her property was confiscated, she left Italy and on Agrippina's orders, she committed suicide.

Silanus committed suicide on the day that Agrippina married her uncle, and Calvina was exiled from Italy in early 49.

** Statilius Taurus was forced to suicide because Agrippina wanted his gardens.

The " Common Strategy " approach was not designed to handle suicide hijackings, and the hijackers were able to exploit a weakness in the civil aviation security system.

He was assassinated, probably at the instigation of al-Qaeda, in a suicide bombing on September 9, 2001, just two days before the September 11 attacks that finally caused the US and NATO to intervene in Afghanistan, allying themselves with Massoud's forces.

Abdülaziz was deposed by his ministers on 30 May 1876 ; his death at Feriye Palace in Constantinople a few days later was attributed to suicide at the time, although in Sultan Abdulhamid II's recently surfaced memoirs, the event is described as an assassination by the order of Hussein Avni Pasha and Midhat Pasha.

The event was recorded as suicide officially and he was buried in Istanbul.

A suicide attempt with sleeping pills two days earlier was denied by her public relations manager.

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

Considering Dio must have read Tacitus, it is worth noting he mentions nothing about suicide ( which was also how Postumus and Nero ended their lives ).

On 20 September 2011, Rabbani was assassinated by a suicide bomber entering his home in Kabul.

A similar story is reported by Flavius Josephus during the siege of Jerusalem by Rome in 70 AD ( see Mary of Bethezuba ), and the population of Numantia during the Roman Siege of Numantia in the 2nd century BC was reduced to cannibalism and suicide.

Magnentius was defeated at the battles of Mursa Major and Mons Seleucus, committing suicide after the latter.

Their tragedy was too much for Alison and, after kidnapping then returning Sarah-Lou Platt's newborn baby Bethany, she committed suicide by stepping in front of a lorry, leaving Kevin devastated.

The New York Times described the contents of his two-page suicide note to his wife: " he was heartbroken at being unable to see her once again, and expressing deep regret at having hurt her, the dearest thing in his life.

Following the Reichswehr purge of 1938, Hitler could be described as the absolute dictator of Germany until his suicide in 1945.

Gerald Kaufman, once Harold Wilson's press officer and during the 1980s prominent on the Labour right, described the 1983 Labour manifesto as " the longest suicide note in history ".

It was designed to replace the doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction, a doctrine that Reagan and his aides described as a suicide pact.

In 1953, Olson's death was described as a suicide that had occurred during a severe psychotic episode.

Framed and debated as a privacy issue, coming out of the closet is described and experienced variously as a psychological process or journey ; decision-making or risk-taking ; a strategy or plan ; a mass or public event ; a speech act and a matter of personal identity ; a rite of passage ; liberation or emancipation from oppression ; an ordeal ; a means toward feeling gay pride instead of shame and social stigma ; or even career suicide.

Their lives change dramatically within one summer when Cecilia, a stoic and astute girl described as an " outsider ", attempts suicide by cutting her wrists.

After January 14, 2002 bin al-Shibh was found to be among five suspected al-Qaeda members delivering what United States Attorney General John Ashcroft described as " martyrdom messages from suicide terrorists " on five discovered videos.

The state of mind produced by that shock is reflected in his novel Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis ( The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis ) ( 1798 ), which was described by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as a more politicized version of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, " for the hero of Foscolo embodies the mental sufferings and suicide of an undeceived Italian patriot just as the hero of Goethe places before us the too delicate sensitiveness embittering and at last cutting short the life of a private German scholar.

Jacopo Ortis had been a real person ; he was a young student of Padua, and committed suicide there under circumstances akin to those described by Foscolo.

For much of the 1870s Burne-Jones did not exhibit, following a spate of bitterly hostile attacks in the press, and a passionate affair ( described as the " emotional climax of his life ") with his Greek model Maria Zambaco which ended with her trying to commit suicide by throwing herself in Regent's Canal.

Arnold met rapper Rodney " Rocko " Hill, a former SWA officer and real estate manager, shortly after Knot's suicide in 2000, a time which the singer described as her " weakest.

His death was alternately described as an accident and a suicide, while some have pointed to evidence suggesting foul play.

* In the novel Cheng Ji ( 程畿 ) committed suicide after being cornered by Wu soldiers during the Shu army's retreat, but Records of Three Kingdoms simply described that he was killed in action.

She contemplated suicide at the age of eight after what she described as a difficult childhood and her struggle with the fact that her father abandoned her.

Almond later described this recording as an " attempted suicide put on vinyl.

In an interview with Elaine May, Mike Nichols described the bomb as " the prime example that I know of in Hollywood of studio suicide ", implying that Puttnam sandbagged the project by leaking negative anecdotes to the media because of his grudges against Beatty and Hoffman.

" Catch the bus " refers to the act of suicide, and the group is described as:

Featuring lyrics about death, suicide and child abuse, along with children's songs and a Middle Eastern techno number, music critic Greg Prato described the album as having " a totally original and new musical style that sounds like nothing that currently exists ".

His life was described as " a series of suicide attempts ".

In the 1983 general election, Thatcher rode a wave of nationalism brought about by the Falklands War and compounded by the Labour leadership's failure to campaign on their manifesto, their most left-wing for many years ( famously described by the right-wing Labour MP Gerald Kaufman as " the longest suicide note in history ").

The attack has often been described as a suicide mission, but it has also been asserted that it was the outcome of a larger operation ( the particulars of which remain unpublicized ) that went awry.

Presentationally, the abandonment of the nationalising principles of the original Clause IV represented a break with Labour's past and, specifically, a break with its 1983 Manifesto (" The longest suicide note in history ", as it was described by one of the party's own MP's ) in which greater state ownership was proposed.