“We do not recommend suicide as a way of life.”
Alfred Hitchcock Presents. 1965.
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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)
Dick Cheney (1941) American politician and businessman
Vice Presidential Debate October 5, 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3718956.stm http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6187803/ <br class="br">2000s, 2004
“Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”
Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html by John Jurgensen <!--accessed: November 17, 2009--> <br class="br">Variant: I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing. <br class="br">Context: I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
“There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.”
Stephen King book The Stand
The Stand (Uncut), Chapter 55 p. 799
The Stand (1978)
“This life is slow suicide, unless you read.”
Herman Wouk book The Caine Mutiny
Source: The Caine Mutiny
“Life is a slow suicide, and it is happening to every intellectual.”
Shiv Kumar Batalvi (1936–1973) Indian poet
Interview video hosted on Youtube. http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=EgpSHpATAIM,
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
or the gambol
[199709292259.PAA10407@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist
Source: The Presence of the Kingdom (1948), p. 28
“It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)