tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069432629974606542.post1061132053038703256..comments2023-04-29T04:48:18.973-07:00Comments on Theodosia and the Pirates: The Honorable Way OutAya Katzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12339668413030878426noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069432629974606542.post-42584110359745818722014-08-16T12:38:04.286-07:002014-08-16T12:38:04.286-07:00Hi, Pam, there is definitely a cultural element to...Hi, Pam, there is definitely a cultural element to the practice of suicide, as your example points out. But there are also individual choices that may deviate from the accepted practices of any given culture.<br />Many of the honor death practices that we may find most awful are when the person is allowed no other choice. But throughout history there have been documented cases where a person chose an honorable way out, as a matter of his own preferences, when he could clearly have chosen something else.Aya Katzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339668413030878426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069432629974606542.post-91351565359353033832014-08-16T11:55:05.147-07:002014-08-16T11:55:05.147-07:00The Japanese took the honor death to the limit wit...The Japanese took the honor death to the limit with seppuku, in which a defeated or disgraced samurai would disembowel himself while his friend stood behind him to quickly decapitate the man and alleviate suffering. The samurai's wife also often killed herself in an honor death, too, by slitting her throat after binding her knees together so she would not be found in an undignified pose.Ozarklorianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09348265376584155745noreply@blogger.com