Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.
In the letter he left for the coroner he had explained his reasoning (for suicide): that life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it ...
