ABSTRACT
Now that we know what suicide is, its species and its principal laws, we must seek to find what attitude present-day societies should take toward it.
But this question itself presupposes another. Should the present state of suicide among civilized peoples be considered as normal or abnormal? According to the solution one adopts, he will consider reforms necessary and possible with a view to restraining it, or, on the contrary, will agree, not without censure, to accept it as it is.
