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                           Marny Suicides Reported on Respect For Aged Day

    Tragic suicides by aged persons were reported from across the country Monday when the nation celebrated Respect for the Aged Day, a national holiday.
    In the city of. . . , a 76-year-old woman was found to have hanged herself in her room at about 2 a. m. , her grandson reported to police.

    The woman,... , had been suffering from tuberculosis and the hardening of the arteries in addition to,the loss of eyesight, the grandson told police.
In the city of. . . , a neighbor visited a 78-year-old man's home at 9 a. m. to find that he had gassed himself. The man,. .. , had lived alone on pension sice 1961 when his wife died.

    In. . . , a farmer reported to police that his 68-year-old wife hanged herself in a shed Monday afternoon.
    The woman, Mrs... , was worried about her frail health and had often talked of loneliness in old age, according to the husband.
    A person fishing in the sea off the city of. . . found the body of an aged woman drifting at 10. 20 a. m. Monday.
    Police later identified the body as that of... , 92, of... , who had been missing since Friday.

    Her family members believed that she was overwhelmed by pessimism because she was unable to receive pension from the city office due to some flaw in her papers on Wednesday.
    A 66-year-old woman hanged herself in a room in her house in.... while her daughter-in-law was in anothei room. The daughter-in-law, Mrs... , told police that her mother-in-law,... , had been almost bed-ridden since 1973.

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