Με αφορμή
άλλο νήμα και την συζήτηση που έγινε, αντιγράφω από την wikipedia σχετικά με το τέλος του Paul Lafargue και της Laura Marx (κόρης του Κάρολου), το 1911:
It was in that house of Draveil where Paul and Laura Lafargue put end to their lives, to the surprise and even outrage of French and European socialists.
He wrote for that occasion:
"Healthy of body and spirit, I give me death before the implacable old age, that has stealed me one after the other all pleasures and joys of existence, and has expoiled me from my physical and intellectual strength, paralizes my energy and ends with my willpower, making me a burden for myself and others.
Since years ago I have promised myself not to surpass the age of seventy; I have fixed the season for my departure from this life and prepared the means to execute this decision: a hypodermic injection of cyanhydric acid.
I die with the supreme happiness of having the certainty that very soon will triumph the cause to which I have given myself since 45 years ago.
Long live Communism! Long live the International"
Most socialist leaders publicly or privately deplored his decision; a few, notably the Spanish Anarchist leader Anselmo Lorenzo, who had been a major political rival of Lafargue in his Spanish period, accepted his decision with understanding"