The Role Of Suicide In Ancient Rome

Aristotle once said, “To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. “ Although suicide has a negative view towards it in the modern day, suicide was viewed as a way to uphold one’s honor in ancient Rome. Due to the implementation of Christianity, the views of suicide today differ from those in ancient Rome In ancient Rome, there was very little treatment for suicide because it was accepted when done for the appropriate reasons. The School of Stoics defined suicide as appropriate when the act suicide served others, poverty, chronic illness, or mental disease made death more attractive, or if it was done to uphold one’s honor.