Suicide is an effective act that human beings have known since ancient times, namely the killing of the soul. Dictionaries say suicide is a voluntary act that leads to the person putting an end to his or her own life. When he talks about suicide, he talks about self-destruction or suicide as a result of illness. The law defines the state of suicide by saying that in order to treat a situation as suicide, death must be the main goal of the act and not one of its consequences. It is strange that suicide, which is deliberate behavior by someone to end his life in which the laws differed in regard to the crime or not
The Concept of Suicide in World Literature From Homer to Dostoevsky:
The phenomenon of suicide is one of the few phenomena that preoccupied human thought in all its dimensions and aspects. Suicide may not be as important in the interest of human thought as it is to examine and examine it at all levels except death.
From here, suicide as a human phenomenon was subjected to literary scrutiny from the era of Homer and even Dostoevsky.
We rarely find the work of a writer without a work on the phenomenon of suicide, whether taking the literary work picture of the story or took the image of the play or rolled under the banner of myths, and the world behind sensors sensory and visual senses always find suicide somewhere in this literature or that.
How did literature look at suicide? Is it permissible or not? Is suicide a moral act or an act against humanity? Is suicide justified, in the sense of whether there are certain circumstances if passed by a person can justify the suicide rationally