Did humans kill themselves a lot ancient times? What about cave man times? How would they even accomplish that...

Did humans kill themselves a lot ancient times? What about cave man times? How would they even accomplish that? I have been watching a lot of history videos and I feel like it would suck if you were attacked by a leopard and half dead and had to sit and starve to death for 3 days with bugs and shit eating you.

Were humans more resilient back then? Were they less self aware that killing suicide is an option? I guess it's a good thing they didn't pussy out though, but it's scary to wonder how many humans and even in history have had such a hard time and tragic deaths.

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In ancient greece people who did sth dishonourable like fleeing from a battle would commit suicide to regain their honour

it was easier to kill yourself when you had unwavering belief in an afterlife

Ancient eastern method of suicide is eating 1 lbs. of salt.

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I imagine there was a lot of religious/ritualized suicide.

People offering themselves as sacrifices to appease gods so their family or tribe would prosper.

But depressed emo cavemen? I don't think so.

There was that Spartan who was ordered to leave Thermopylae due to being struck with an eye disease that left him blind. Aristodemus and Eurytus were their names. Eurytus however ordered his slave to guide him back to die with his fellow Spartans and because he returned, Aristodemus was shamed when he returned to Sparta.

Then at Plataea Aristodemus broke ranks and charged the Persians by himself and was killed and the Spartans then said he'd redeemed himself for leaving Thermopylae but wasn't given any posthumous honours for valor because he fought with a suicidal recklessness that was not the Spartan way.

Harsh as fuck. I have to admire the sheer devotion to the national identity. The fact that a man would be willing to die in order to save his honour is amazing to me.

I am more curious of how an injured caveman or an Saharan tribe that ran out of food would accomplish such a thing, or would they just sit around and starve to death?

>Honour
And then theres this guy

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Cavemen had blades, rope, and knew about poisonous plants. But I doubt any of them killed themselves over what another caveman drew about them on a cavewall livestock discussion forum

Shamefuruu indeed

Konstantinos Koukidis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Κουkίδης) was the Greek Evzone on flag guard duty on 27 April 1941 at the Athens Acropolis, at the beginning of the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II. After the first Germans climbed up the Acropolis, an officer ordered him to surrender, give up the Greek flag and raise the Nazi swastika flag in its place. Koukidis instead chose to stay loyal to his duty by hauling down the flag, wrapping it around his body and jumping from the Acropolis rock to his death.

There are a few existing tribal societies where it's quite common for men to kill themselves in their mid-20's. The ones I know of all drank poison. They didn't give a concise reason why they did it, it's like their reasoning didn't translate well - but none of them seemed phased by it in thee slightest.

oh cmon just stop pussyfooting and kill yourself

They would eat each other, starting with the elderly women. This too still happens in some places.

>Shitposting

Diogenes was quality content

>Did humans kill themselves a lot ancient times?

>put your sword under a rib and fall on it
>jump off something tall
>hang yourself
>get a venomous snake to bite you

In Melitos or some other Anatolian Greek colony there was once a trend of women committing suicide. The government stopped it by making a law where all women who commit suicide have their corpse stripped and paraded through the streets naked for everyone to see.

my favourite ancient.

Miletus, Μίλητος.

His memory is not lost to time because he reclaimed his honor.

>Alexander The Great: O were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. Tell me, why are you rummaging around in the trash? What are you doing?
>Diogenes: I'm looking for the bones of your father but I cannot distinguish them from the bones of his slaves.
>Alexander: My dear Diogenes, what in the world would you like to have? Name it and I will bring it to you as a gift.
>Diogenes: Would you mind stepping aside? You're blocking my sunlight.
*walks around town in broad daylight with a lit lantern*
>Diogenes, what are you doing?
>I'm looking for an honest man.
*heads off to a nice open public place to masturbate*
*upon ejaculation, makes his way to the market for something to eat, pack of stray dogs following behind*
*eats in the middle of the market to the scorn of passersby*
>burp
>ok let's go see what that faggot plato is bullshitting about today
*proceeds to crash lectures and heckle*
>hey loser I plucked the feathers off this chicken, here's your 'man'
>yeah pretty fuckin' dumb right lol what good are you
>fuck this I'm going back to my barrel, my dogs are real bros

truly the best

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>Were humans more resilient back then? Were they less self aware that killing suicide is an option
spleen is a bourgeois disease.
just as isterism in woman etc.
>(((they))) are pushing euthanasia by pure coincidence

if only I had half of the balls diogenes had

Here is a good video, in case you guys haven't seen it yet.
>youtube.com/watch?v=d7aWla3cwNg

The funny thing is a lot of old Greek and Italian men are like this, just meme level real life shitposters and bantlords

>>Diogenes, what are you doing?
>>I'm looking for an honest man.
edgy af

People have been killing themselves since at least the beginning of written history many thousands of years ago.

>How would they even accomplish that?
Rope, blades, poison. Same shit that has always been used.

>Were humans more resilient back then?
Mentally, yes. People today wouldn't know what to do if you dropped them off in the woods because they're retarded sacks of shit that are glued to facebook all the time.

>Were they less self aware that killing suicide is an option?
No.

The research into "happiness" levels show that the more "survival level" tasks you have to do, the less time you have to be depressed.
That's why shithole countries report higher "happiness" than first world countries. But first world countries are still a million times more desirable to live in.

Simple fact: If you think, you'll brood. If you're busy, you'll sleep better.

I think suicide was mainly an honor/disgrace thing back in the olden days.