I am talking about the man who kills himself, who uses violence to take his fate out of the hands of destiny, is not acting in obedience to any legal decision of his state, whose hand is not forced by the pressure of some excruciating and unavoidable misfortune, has not fallen into some irremediable disgrace that he cannot live with, and imposes this unjust judgment on himself in a spirit of slothful and abject cowardice.