Sentence examples for order to commit suicide from inspiring English sources

Complying with Li Si's order to commit suicide, he drank the poison Li Si sent him, ending his life.

While such incidents have happened before, the topic remains almost taboo, with investigators and officials reluctant to conclude that a pilot purposely crashed a plane in order to commit suicide even when the evidence appears compelling.

The drugs that were taken in order to commit suicide were mostly antidepressants, antibiotics and analgesics.

The Moral Letters to Lucilius as well as the Natural Questions are the product of the last years of Seneca's life, the brief period (62 65) that Seneca spent in retirement before following Nero's order to commit suicide (on the dating of Seneca's writings see the introductions in Cooper/Procopé 1995, and Griffin 1992).

He was ordered to commit suicide.

The subject of this painting — Seneca accused of conspiracy, and ordered to commit suicide, "which he did, with great fortitude and dignity" — is carefully intertwined with Maskell's past conspiracy and present public disgrace.

Set against the emperor Nero's attempts to replace his empress with a younger model, it is an amoral piece in which every character relentlessly pursues their own prurient agenda, with the exception of the emperor's chief advisor, Seneca, a philosophical pedant who is ordered to commit suicide for voicing a dissenting opinion.

Nero's previous advisor, Seneca was ordered to commit suicide after admitting he discussed the plot with the conspirators.

The settlement of the north continued up to Qin Shi Huang's death in 210BC, upon which Meng Tian was ordered to commit suicide in a succession conspiracy.

The Doom in the film reminded critics of Jim Jones, a cult leader whose hold on his followers was such that hundreds of them obeyed his orders to commit suicide.

This so angers Nerone that he instructs his guards to order Seneca to commit suicide.