Suicide Will Not End Your Troubles — Sir Conan Doyle
Suicide Will Not End Your Troubles — Sir Conan Doyle is an article published in Los Angeles Evening Express on 14 may 1923.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and family.
Trials, Positions Here Await Us Beyond, Says Famous Spiritualist
Lay off the gas — exit, prospective suicides — it won't get you a thing. That's the message brought to! Los Angeles today by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes and foremost exponent of the theory of communication with the dead. Sir Arthur, accompanied by Lady Doyle, sons Denis and Malcolm, daughter Jean and two secretaries, arrived this morning at 9:30 on the Union Pacific from Salt Lake City for a two weeks' visit in Southern California.
SUICIDE DEPLORABLE
"My attention has been called to the large list of suicides in the large American cities,"
Sir Arthur told reporters upon his arrival at the Ambassador Hotel. "It is deplorable that so many people remove themselves from this earth in an effort to leave behind their problems here, only to find that the problems still exist in the other world.
"In the beyond the same positions which we held in this world await us and the same trials, the same mental achievements and stations in life confront us. Therefore the suicide who attempts to end it all' fails in his effort, because he finds the same obstacle to happiness after death that drove him to suicide here."
LECTURES HERE MAY 23
Material bliss, in the form of the cool linens of his bed at the Ambassador, formed Sir Arthur's dominating mental pursuit, and he cautioned reporters to "make it snappy" while questioning him.
Tomorrow the celebrated English author will visit Catalina island with his family. He is scheduled to deliver his first lecture at San Diego next Monday. His first Los Angeles lecture will be given in the Trinity Auditorium May 23. He in- tends giving demonstrations of psychic phenomena in lectures in the same hall May 25 and 28, after which he is scheduled to depart for the northern cities.
