During the Depression his mother, who had bouts of mental illness, turned to writing short stories to generate income; when this failed, she committed suicide.

在经济大萧条时期，冯内古特那患有间歇性精神疾病的母亲意图通过撰写短篇小说获取收入；尝试未果，她自杀了。

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This seems plausible until we see the actual circumstances of her death: She committed suicide by jumping out a window of a building opposite where Cobb was when she jumped.

这看上去能说得通，但后来我们看到了她死去时的真实情况：她从一栋大楼打开的窗户里跳楼自杀，而当时柯柏正在她对面的大楼里。

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She had committed suicide by hanging herself from a beam.

她悬梁自尽了。

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Duffy was jailed last September for posting abusive messages online about Worcestershire teenager Natasha MacBryde after she committed suicide.

BBC: Sean Duffy arriving at court

She committed suicide in 1975.

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In 1941, however, a year to the day after leaving Nanking, she had committed suicide, convinced that she had done too little.

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