“There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.”

“The reason why I wouldn’t commit suicide… well, the main reason now is ’cos I have a baby and I would never commit suicide because of her. But to me, committing suicide from a nihilistic point of view is pointless, because we’re all gonna die anyway, so why not just hang around and see what happens? D’you know what I mean? If something is inevitable, why board the plane early?”

“Why don't I commit suicide? Because I am as sick of death as I am of life.”

“I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.”

“I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide”

“I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.”

“I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.”

“How about Prozac? … The U. S. number one cause of [unnatural] death is suicide now because they give people suicide mass murder pills. … I want to get people off pills that the insert says will make you commit suicide and kill people! I want to blame the real culprit—suicide pills! Mass murder pills!”

“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”

“They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts.”