1. 

   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.
   Suicide note.
   ~~ Kurt Cobain, musician, d. April 8, 1994

2. Goodbye, everybody!
   Last words as he jumped off the cruise ship "Orizaba." (His body was never found.)
   ~~ Hart Crane, poet, d. April 27, 1932
3. To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?
   Suicide note.
   ~~ George Eastman, inventor, d. March 14, 1932
4. 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.
   Suicide note.
   ~~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman, writer, d. August 17, 1935
   ( As an advocate for the right-to-die, Gilman committed suicide on August 17, 1935 by taking an overdose of chloroform. She "chose chloroform over cancer.")
5. 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.
   Shot herself during broadcast.
   ~~ Chris Chubbuck, newscaster, d. July 15, 1974
6. 

   Don't worry, it's not loaded.
   Suicide playing Russian roulette.
   ~~ Terry Kath, rock musician, d. January 23, 1978

7. They tried to get me - I got them first!
   Suicide by drinking Lysol.
   ~~ Vachel Lindsay, poet, d. December 4, 1931
8. 

   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.
   Suicide note.
   ~~ Freddie Prinze, comedian, d. January 29, 1977

9. 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.
   Suicide note.
   ~~ George Sanders, British actor, d. April 25, 1972
10. "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 left the note for his wife, Anita. He shot himself four days later at his home in Aspen, Colo., after weeks of pain from a host of physical problems that included a broken leg and a hip replacement.
    ~~ Hunter S. Thompson, author, d. 20 February, 2005
    The writer's ashes were blown into the sky in Woody Creek, Colo., amid fireworks on Aug. 20.

11. 

    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.
    Suicide note.
    ~~ Lupe Velez, actress, d. December 13, 1944

    Lupe was once married to Olympic swimmer turned actor, Johnny Weissmuller and was also linked romantically to Gary Cooper, Jimmy Durante, Jack Dempsey, Tom Mix, Victor Fleming, and a young actor named Harald Maresch.

12. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time.
    Suicide note.
    ~~ Wendy O. Williams, punk rock performer, d. April 6, 1998
13. 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
    Suicide note
    ~~ Virginia Woolf, author, d. March 28, 1941

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