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Suicide (Latin suicidium, from sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of terminating one's own life. Many dictionaries also note the metaphor sense of "willful destruction of one's self-interest". Suicide may occur for a number of reasons, including depression, shame, pain, financial difficulties, or other undesirable situations. Nearly one million people worldwide die by suicide annually, making it one of the world's leading causes of death. There are an estimated 10 to 20 million attempted... full article at wikipedia

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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.	Arthur Schopenhauer
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?	Jean Genet
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.	Thomas Szasz
It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.	Michel de Montaigne
Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?	William Shakespeare
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.	Václav Havel
And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.	Ogden Nash
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.	Cesare Pavese
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.	Havelock Ellis
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.	Cesare Pavese
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