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The Last Words of Famous Suicide Notes:
- “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.
- “The future is just old age and illness and pain…. I must have peace and this is the only way.” - James Whale.
- “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.
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.” - Sarah Teasdale.
- “They tried to get me - I got them first!” - Vachel Lindsay.
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Suicide Forest, Aokigahara, Japan, 2008 by Simon Vahala on Flickr.
The forest, which has a historic association with demons in Japanese mythology, is a popular place for suicides; in 2002, 78 bodies were found, despite numerous signs, in Japanese and English, urging people to reconsider their actions.
Due to the wind-blocking density of the trees, and an absence of wildlife, the forest is known for being eerily quiet.Via Wikipedia
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Virginia Woolf’s suicide note to her husband Leonard before drowning herself.
On 28 March 1941, Virginia Woolf put on her overcoat, filled its pockets with stones, and walked into the River Ouse near her home and drowned herself. Her body was not found until 18 April 1941. Her husband buried her cremated remains under an elm in the garden of Monk’s House.
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Around 10 o’clock April 8, 1986, the manager of the Sun Music building found the 18-year old Okada in her gas-filled Tokyo apartment, crouching in a closet and sobbing with a slashed wrist. Two hours later, the singer jumped to her death from the seven-story Sun Music Agency building. The reason for the suicide is still unknown. Her untimely death resulted in many copycat suicides in Japan, soon christened with the neologism ”Yukiko Syndrome”.
Christine Chubbuck was the first and only TV news reporter to commit suicide during a live television broadcast. On July 15, 1974, eight minutes into the broadcast, the depressed reporter said “In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first: an attempted suicide.” With that, Chubbuck drew up a revolver and shot herself in the head. Three weeks before her suicide, she had asked the station’s news director if she could do a news piece on suicide. After her suggestion was approved, she visited the local sheriff’s department to discuss with an officer methods of suicide. In the interview, an officer told her one of the most efficient ways was to use a .38 caliber revolver with wadcutter target bullets, and to shoot oneself in the back of the head rather than in the temple
Many cultures have prohibited a normal burial for people who committed suicide, although the restrictions varied according to time and place. A common practice in England until 1823 was to bury a suicidal person at night in a crossroad with a stake driven through the heart. In France, the suicide’s body was dragged through the streets and then hanged from the public gallows. In Prussia, early laws required the victim to be buried under the gallows.
Bill Tipps and his wife, Louise, moved to Stevensville from a suburb of Las Vegas to be close to their adult son, Dennis Tipps, who was the high school football coach and onetime police chief. Dennis Tipps found a site for a home for his parents nearby in an area of small farms and new houses. One of his sons, Dennis Jr., a contractor, built them a simple ranch-style home.
But Bill Tipps grew depressed. “My dad hated the cold and the winter,” Dennis Tipps said. He was also becoming increasingly concerned about the health of his wife, who was 80. She had undergone several heart surgeries, and the local doctor said her toes might have to be amputated because of diabetes. Dennis Tipps now surmises that when the doctor pointed with a sweeping gesture to Louise Tipps’s foot, and then her knee and hip, Bill Tipps assumed the doctor was suggesting that his wife’s leg would also have to be taken off.
His father hated doctors and would not seek their advice, Dennis Tipps said. So his father never clarified his wife’s prognosis or sought help for his apparent depression.His father “never displayed his emotions,” Dennis Tipps said. “He kept everything inside, and he was very stubborn. He wouldn’t change his mind.”
One morning in September 1999, at 8:05 a.m., Bill Tipps called his son at his home.
“I just shot and killed your mother so they can’t take her leg off,” said the elder Mr. Tipps, who was 83. “Now I’m going to shoot myself.”
Dennis Tipps jumped in his truck, and as he approached his parents’ house, he heard what he thought was his engine backfiring. It was his father shooting himself.
“In my dad’s mind, this was a mercy killing,” Dennis Tipps said. “He would never leave her side. He thought he was doing the right thing, but he overreacted.”
Robert Hawkin’s suicide note, left at his house before shooting and killing 8 people at the Westroads Mall in Omaha.
some train stations that are popular suicide spots put up mirrors on the other side of the tracks, in hopes that the people about to jump will see their reflection and be pulled back to reality
