Chapter
Taking Oneself Off (IN: On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question, edited by J Miller)
Bierce A
In 1913, Ambrose Bierce, a journalist, disappeared in Mexico. Some believed he went to fight with Pancho Villa; most believed that he went there to die. This column, written around 1890, in which Bierce argues that suicide is always courageous, seems to support the latter scenario.