ABSTRACT
In Chapter 2 we noted that to live is to maintain a fortune in family life. Having examined familial love and domestic justice, now we come to the idea of fortune.
In the context of fortune, local people understand suicide in three ways: first, as being caused by supernatural powers, as if it were an accident beyond human control; second, as the result not of fate but of power games between gods or ghosts and human beings; third, as a manifestation, along with misfortune, of the paradox of family life.
