# What would your suicide note be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 19, 2022, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-suicide-note-be/963028 "2022-04-19T01:54:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-suicide-note-be/963028/1 "2022-04-19T01:54:09Z")
I’ll go first: > I’m sorry. > Don’t raise your children to hate themselves. > Don’t raise your children you be afraid of you. > I’m sorry ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-suicide-note-be/963028/2 "2022-04-19T01:59:03Z")
Are you okay, Lissener? Your post is rather alarming and I think we’d all like to make sure you’re not going to inflict any harm upon yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-suicide-note-be/963028/3 "2022-04-19T02:11:31Z")
There’s a lot of people on this message board who are happy to talk. I’m certainly one of them – don’t hesitate to PM me if you just need someone to chat with. Also, 800-273-8255. Or > **[Lifeline Chat and Text](https://988lifeline.org/chat/)** > > Lifeline Chat and Text is a service of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (formerly known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline), connecting individuals with crisis counselors for emotional support and other services via web chat or texting... ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-suicide-note-be/963028/4 "2022-04-19T02:23:06Z")
No but thanks. I’ve made two.previous attempts so i know the drill. But i see “The Suicide Note as a genre of writing”: the author’s attempt to sum everything up as succinctly as possible, as quickly as possible, as c!early as possible. Autobiography under extreme pressure. Imagining the note is a coping mechanism of mine. I think its a good writing exercise. For what it’s worth, my perspective on the matter: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/G0j03Ioi4Z4/maxresdefault.jpg "charleydarbo standup Second City Chicago Friday December 13 2019") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0j03Ioi4Z4) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-suicide-note-be/963028/5 "2022-04-19T02:39:14Z")
[An anthology of famous people’s suicide notes](https://www.phrases.org.uk/famous-last-words/suicide-notes.html) (and some last utterances of accidental suicides) Including George Sanders, which can only be imagined read in his louchest of louche voice: _“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.”_ ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-suicide-note-be/963028/6 "2022-04-19T03:29:41Z")
No funeral. Toss me in the ditch for the coyotes. Go fuck yerselves. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-suicide-note-be/963028/7 "2022-04-19T03:38:42Z")
If I were to write one, mine would be pretty long. It would be like 10 pages in Microsoft Word, explaining everything and also a long life narrative, and I’d share it by email to family, maybe post on Facebook. I’m not suicidal, just saying that short and pithy isn’t really my style for something as important as that. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-suicide-note-be/963028/8 "2022-04-19T04:12:22Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > I’m not suicidal, just saying that short and pithy isn’t really my style for something as important as that. Well, be sure to include a TL;DR, in case your loved ones don’t share your fascination with your “long life narrative”. 🤣 I’m half-joking, but the snarky half is because I just finished slogging through editing my mom’s memoirs. Whittled over 100 pages down to 50, and my kids are not looking forward to mine: “Just so ya know, if you do _Dad’s Story,_ I’m only reading a couple pages of it.” Hey, maybe I’ll just give tell them about this place, and let them search for my stories and half-baked opinions here. (But I hope they’ll be too busy with kids and jobs and travels and loving their lives to take the time…) ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-suicide-note-be/963028/9 "2022-04-19T04:16:01Z")
I’ve said it before to my friends. If someone tells you I committed suicide, start looking for my murderer. I’m not one to commit suicide, so I’ve got no note other than the previous directive. I’m the kind of fool who thinks attempting to murder my tormentors is more appealing. Yes, that includes all of society if I happened to think that was my tormentor. Fortunately, I’m pretty intimately familiar with how I suck, and I can generally live with it. For the most part, I’m in the same situation with the rest of the world. I’m far from superior to those who do contemplate suicide, but I certainly have a different mindset. I’m vengeful, and I don’t think many would miss me (obviously, there’s a bunch of excluded middle there). I’ve had several friends and at least one family member decide to reach out to me when they’ve been in the middle of getting ready for suicide. I don’t know if my reaction revealing in a stark manner that it was a very alien concept to me helped or what, but no-one who’s contacted me beforehand has gone through with it, so far. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-suicide-note-be/963028/10 "2022-04-19T09:11:55Z")
“I’ve had enough. I don’t want to participate anymore.” ---
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-suicide-note-be/963028/11 "2022-04-19T10:59:32Z")
I can’t really relate - I’m not much for despair - but mine would be handwritten nonsense meant to be completely eligible, but if it was deciphered would be something like “Rough tots eat kool jello!” (a quote from Square Pegs). ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-suicide-note-be/963028/12 "2022-04-19T11:24:07Z")
“Take ten paces east from the shadow of the beast, then seventeen paces south. Then walk slowly toward the tree that sorta looks like me. You’ll now know where to dig, and the fortune will be big. BurmaShave.” ---
**Author:** ![Lurking\_Quahog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lurking_quahog/32/21274_2.png) [@Lurking\_Quahog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lurking_Quahog)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-suicide-note-be/963028/13 "2022-04-19T11:31:46Z")
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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-suicide-note-be/963028/14 "2022-04-19T12:08:30Z")
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**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-suicide-note-be/963028/15 "2022-04-19T12:45:13Z")
Norm McDonald once read a Weekend Update item about Entertainment Tonight host John Tesh. It announced that Tesh had signed a contract for something like seven million dollars to perform his New Age piano music on albums and in concert performances all over the world over the next several years. McDonald then added, “If I ever decide to kill myself, that’s going to be the last sentence in my note.” ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-suicide-note-be/963028/16 "2022-04-19T12:46:10Z")
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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-suicide-note-be/963028/17 "2022-04-19T12:51:12Z")
Suicide, even if it’s just ideation or some sort of literary thing, is well beyond the scope of the SDMB. This is closed. If you or anyone else is having suicidal thoughts, I strongly advise you to seek professional help. If you do not know where to go for help, start with the phone number or chat that @Lancia posted upthread. Please take care of yourself.