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Previous Volume 337:1098-1103 October 9, 1997 Number 15

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For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway's novel about the Spanish Civil War, ends with its American hero, Robert Jordan, mortally wounded and trying to decide whether to commit suicide with a machine gun or risk capture by trying to retain consciousness long enough to cover the retreat of his comrades. Confronting his impending death, Jordan thinks, "Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you." Hemingway, one of the most American of American writers, committed suicide with a shotgun. Most suicides in the United States are committed with guns, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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