“Any crime committed against the Ngo family cannot be hidden under the label of suicide. I affirm that suicide has always been considered incompatible with our religion.”
Addressing the claim that President Ngo Dinh Diem and her husband Ngo Dinh Nhu committed suicide http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/vietnam-78-106-madame-nhu-press-conference (3 November 1963)
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“A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
"The Poets' Corner III," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/1307/ (May 30, 1887)
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Letter to Bernard Baruch (19 August 1916), PWW 38:51
1910s
Variant: Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
“How many, tired of lying, commit suicide into any truth.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Cuántos, cansados de mentir, se suicidan en cualquier verdad.
Voces (1943)
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111) Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic
The Deliverance from Error https://www.amazon.com/Al-Ghazalis-Path-Sufism-Deliverance-al-Munqidh/dp/1887752307, p: 34
Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist
Source: The Presence of the Kingdom (1948), p. 28
Jesse Ventura (1951) American politician and former professional wrestler
I Ain't Got Time To Bleed (1999)
Context: I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide. Of course, there are exceptions; people who are terminally ill are a different issue. But in the vast majority of cases, suicide is a tragedy that does unbelievable damage to the family and friends the suicide leaves behind. You don't want to encourage people to do such a thing.
Hans Frank (1900–1946) German war criminal
To Leon Goldensohn, February 12, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
“...any Japanese officer wishing to commit suicide would be given every facility.”
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891–1970) former Governor-General of Australia
Source: Defeat Into Victory (1961), p. 442
Jim Jones (1931–1978) founder and the leader of the Peoples Temple
Source: Last words on " Death Tape http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/DeathTape/Q042fbi.html" FBI No. Q042 (18 November 1978)