Some famous suicide notes people wrote (or spoke) just before killing themselves:
And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead. - Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort, French writer, d. 1794
Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going Courtney, for Frances for her life will be so much happier without me. I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU. - Kurt Cobain, musician, d. April 8, 1994
Goodbye, everybody! - Hart Crane, poet, d. April 27, 1932
To my friends: My work is done. Why wait? - George Eastman, inventor, d. March 14, 1932
Goodbye, my friend, goodbye, My love, you are in my heart. It was preordained we should part, And be reunited by and by. Goodbye: no handshake to endure. Let's have no sadness -- furrowed brow. There's nothing new in dying now, Though living is no newer. - Sergei Esenin, Russian poet, d. Dec. 28, 1925
When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, writer, d. August 17, 1935
Lets see if this will do it. - Jon Erik Hexum, actor, d. October 18, 1984
All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre; The feast is over, and the lamps expire. - Robert E. Howard, writer, d. June 11, 1936
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first - an attempted suicide. - Chris Chubbuck, newscaster, d. July 15, 1974
Don't worry, it's not loaded. - Terry Kath, rock musician, d. January 23, 1978
They tried to get me - I got them first! - Vachel Lindsay, poet, d. December 4, 1931
I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally. - Freddie Prinze, comedian, d. January 29, 1977
Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck. - George Sanders, British actor, d. April 25, 1972
When I am dead, and over me bright April, Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace. As leafey trees are peaceful, When rain bends down the bough. And I shall be more silent and cold hearted, Than you are now. - Sara Teasdale, poet, d. 1933
"Football Season Is Over." No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax This won't hurt. - Hunter S. Thompson, author, d. 20 February, 2005
To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me too but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. - Lupe Velez, actress, d. December 13, 1944
The future is just old age and illness and pain.... I must have peace and this is the only way. - James Whale, film director, d. May 29, 1957
I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. - Wendy O. Williams, punk rock performer, d. April 6, 1998
I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices - Virginia Woolf, author, d. March 28, 1941
