McKinnon's lawyers had argued that their client, who suffers from Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism, would be at risk of a mental breakdown or suicide if sent to the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

Strange to say, too, that night we crossed the ferry with Bull Lee a girl committed suicide off the deck either just before or just after us. We saw it in the paper the next day.

还有件很奇怪的事儿，我们和布尔·李渡过渡口的那天晚上,一个姑娘从船上跳水自杀了，大概不是在我们渡河之前,就是以后，第二天我们从报纸上看到了这个消息。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When, if ever, is suicide an appropriate, ? rational or moral response to one's situation?

什么时候，如果有的话，自杀是合适的，合理的或道德的回应呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

One belief is that it started when an English stableman committed suicide by hanging himself while standing on a pail,or bucket.

VOA: special.2011.06.05

If there's something sort of degrading or unnoble about being a person who is going to become a corpse, committing suicide doesn't alter that fundamental fact either.

如果成为一个,将会变成尸体的人,有什么可耻或是不体面的话，自杀也不能改变这个基本的事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

These are women who lost husbands,fathers,sons or brothers to violence and who have become suicide bombers.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

"Depression is associated with suffering, can be associated with suicide or wishing to not live."

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

Officials say most either committed suicide or suffered heart attacks.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26