"Suicide Note" redirects here. For the song by Pantera, see Suicide Note (song).
"Suicide letter" redirects here. For the letter sent by the FBI to Martin Luther King Jr, see FBI–King suicide letter.
A suicide note or death note is a message written by a person who intends to die by suicide.
Suicide note of Dalida reading "La vie m'est insupportable. Pardonnez-moi." ('Life is unbearable for me. Forgive me.')
A study examining Japanese suicide notes estimated that 25–30% of suicides are accompanied by a note. However, incidence rates may depend on ethnicity and cultural differences, and may reach rates as high as 50% in certain demographics.[1] A suicide message can be in any form or medium, but the most common methods are by a written note, an audio message, or a video.
Some fields of study, such as sociology, psychiatry and graphology, have investigated the reasons why people who complete or attempt suicide leave a note.
The most common reasons that people contemplating suicide choose to write a suicide note include one or more of the following:[2]
To ease the pain of those known to the victim by attempting to dissipate guilt.
To increase the pain of survivors by attempting to create guilt.
^"Man jailed for murder in lay-by". London: bbc.co.uk. 2008-03-01. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
^"Suicide note found in murder-suicide case". cbc.ca. 2000-06-23. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
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The Presentation of the Self in Suicide Notes by David Lester & Bijou Yang
January 01, 1970
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