Debt and health
Debt and health
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DOI：
10.1016/j.explore.2006.12.004
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发表时间：
2007-03-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Dossey, Larry
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作者：
Dossey, Larry
1732 年 4 月，贫穷的伦敦装订工理查德·史密斯 (Richard Smith) 和他的妻子布里奇特开枪射杀了他们两岁的女儿，然后回到自己的房间上吊自杀。他们在一封遗书中解释道：“我们对贫穷和破烂怀有根深蒂固的仇恨；通过一连串的不幸事故，邪恶变得不可避免；我们呼吁所有认识我们的人，无论我们是游手好闲还是奢侈浪费……我们声明，我们为谋生付出了与邻居一样多的努力；但我们的关怀却没有取得同样的成功……”2
In April 1732, Richard Smith, an im-poverished London bookbinder, and his wife Bridget shot their two-yearold daughter, went to their rooms, and hanged themselves. In a suicide letter they explained,“It was an inveterate Hatred we conceiv’d against Poverty and Rags; Evils that through a Train of unlucky Accidents were become inevitable; we appeal to all that ever knew us whether we were either idle or extravagant,... and we state that we have taken as much trouble to earn our living as any of our neighbors; but our cares have not had the same success....” 2