Suicides
Canto XIII
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Canto XIII - The Suicides

" Like the rest, we shall return to claim our bodies
but never again to wear them - wrong it is
for a man to have again what he once cast off”

— translation by Mark Musa

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The Wood of the Suicide

The Wood of the Suicide is a pitiful place for the “self-slayers” and the passage from Canto XIII is among the saddest in the Inferno.