take one's own life

present singular third person takes one's own life · participle present taking one's own life · participle past took one's own life · past took one's own life · alternative take one's life

1. euphemisticTo kill oneself; to commit suicide.

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   Chia Kuei-hsiang was a young worker at the Horticultural Model Farm in Chia-mu-ssu. On July 27, 1956, having long suffered the abuse of subjectivists and bureaucrats, she took her own life. Comrade Wang Ko, a reporter for the Heilunkiang Daily News, published a report of the circumstances surrounding her death on October 11 of that year. Depressed after reading such a story, I wrote this poem in the hope that there will never be another Chia Kuei-hsiang.

   1981, Shao Yen-hsiang, “Chia Kuei-hsiang”, in Hualing Nieh, editor, Literature of the Hundred Flowers, volume II, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 156