Suicide is not unknown on Gor.
The first example is when the implanted one of the Caste of Initiates meets Tarl on the road to Ko-ro-ba. He explains to Tarl that Tarl is now hated, Ko-ro-ba has been destroyed and that it would be easier for Tarl if his just committed suicide.
"Tarl of Ko-ro-ba," he said, "throw yourself upon your sword."
Outlaw of Gor    Book 2    Page 43
Another prime example are those of the Pani who, when unable to master the tarn, committed ritual suicide to "regain their honor".
"Four of my people," said Tajima, "fled back from the tarns, and two found they could not approach them."
"That is understandable," I said.
"But not acceptable," said Tajima. "But each has regained his honor."
"I do not see how honor is involved in this sort of thing," I said, "courage perhaps, but how honor?"
"For us, honor is involved," said Tajima. "But do not fear, for they have regained their honor."
"How?" I asked.
"By the knife," he said.
Swordsmen of Gor    Book 29    Page 245
Following now are some other examples of when suicide is mentioned:
I had neared the compound a hundred times before, but this time I was determined to enter. I began to walk with a quickened pace, my heart began to beat powerfully, and I felt the elation of decision. I would act. It would be suicide to attempt to cut my way in, but Pa-Kur was in the environs of Ar, directing the siege operations, and I might, with luck, pass myself off as his messenger, who would be bold enough to deny entrance to one whose helmet bore the golden slash of the courier?
Tarnsman of Gor    Book 1    Page 182
"No, Friend," I said to the remains of the former warrior of Ar. "No, I shall not throw myself upon my sword. Nor shall I grovel to the Priest-Kings nor live the life of shame they have allotted to me."
Outlaw of Gor    Book 2    Page 44
The words of the man of Ar, he who had worn the robes of the Initiates, he who had brought me the message of the Priest-Kings on the road to Ko-ro-ba that violent night months before, rang in my ears, "Throw yourself upon your sword, Tarl of Ko-ro-ba!"
But I knew then that I would not throw myself upon my sword, and that I would not now. I knew then as I knew now that I would go instead to the Sardar Mountains, that I would enter them and seek the Priest-Kings themselves.
Outlaw of Gor    Book 2    Page 173
It seemed to me that under the circumstances, while I was still my own master, I should perhaps slay myself. Otherwise I would be used as a weapon by Sarm, used to injure and destroy my friends. The thought of suicide has always horrified me, for life seems precious, and the mortal moments that one has, so brief a glimpse of the vistas of reality, it seems to me should be cherished, even though they might be lived in pain or sorrow. But under the circumstances it seemed that I should perhaps surrender the gift of life, for there are some things more precious than life, and were it not so I think that life itself would not be as precious as it is.
Priest-Kings of Gor    Book 3    Page 254
"Freedom without reason is suicide," had said the Priest-King, adding, "Man is not yet rational."
Nomads of Gor    Book 4    Page 7
These developments, however, are not likely to occur on Gor. That is because of the nature of Gorean men. Indeed, even on another world which occurs to me, such developments would seem unlikely, once the fevers and fits of madness have passed. Surely even that world, finding itself on the brink of species suicide, might be expected to draw back in horror. Let the fanatics and the insane be put to one side, not to be followed, but to be ignored, as was done before, when one emerged from the late Middle Ages, and into the light of the Renaissance.
Prize of Gor    Book 27    Page 234
Ideology and politics were to take priority over such embarrassments as truth and fact; reality was inconvenient; clearly it had not been formed with orthodoxy in mind; nature denied would, of course, exact her vengeance; causes would continue to have their effects; rationality would be sacrificed, intellectual suicide for a rational animal, happiness would be lost, minds would be stunted, miseries multiplied, lives shortened.
Prize of Gor    Book 27    Page 394
I also put Ichiro, my signalman, whose ritual suicide I had forbidden weeks ago, into the air, fearing that more might be on the wing than a single fugitive.
Swordsmen of Gor    Book 29    Page 317
"Put yourself on your sword," he said. "It will be quicker."
Swordsmen of Gor    Book 29    Page 455
"To attack me," said the shogun, "is suicide, even if I do not draw my blade."
Rebels of Gor    Book 33    Page 479
