αwαy: 02.2011

Suicide Notes ..

"I just need it to be over. I've tried to be good and go on but I'm tired. I'm sorry for my children. You will be better off without a crazy-mixed-up mother. You are great kids, this is something in me. You deserve better. I can't live without you and I know you will just get mixed-up with me.
Sorry, mom" - Unknown woman to her children, 2007.

"I and my daughter have committed suicide" - A man who jumped from a bridge with his 5-year-old daughter.

"From the agony I have been through for no reason, whatever I can only come to the logical conclusion that if there is a god that he is not so good as is made out" - A young clerk.

"I would like my sister Frances to have the piano that you have in your apartment. Do this or I will haunt you. Goodbye Sweets, Be seeing you soon.
Love, Joe" - A man to his ex-girlfriend.

"I'm going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity" - Jerzy Kosinski.

"Dear Betty:
I hate you.
Love,
George" - Anonymous, 2005.

"This is where I get off" - Harold W., the first person to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge.

"I'm done with life
I'm no good
I'm dead" - 50-year-old Massachusetts man.

"Absolutely no reason except I have a toothache" - John Thomas D., aged 49.

"I want to say that - and everybody knows it- If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been" - Virginia Woolfe to her husband.

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