Suffocation is a cruel way to go.

$The girl who climbed up the water tower. We would have counted her an accident until the medical examiner found breaks and fractures from her hips to her heels. "You fall head first," he said. "Feet f — Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade$

A bind is when you're quadriplegic, suicidal about that and unable to persuade your best friend to murder you. — Brian Spellman

I could have forced myself to adapt," said Taads. "In this world the individual self is of such importance that it is al — Cees Nooteboom, Rituals

Billions of years before twelve step groups, God committed shotgun suicide. Today wall scrapings share His gratitude sto — Brian Spellman

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void. — Emil M. Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.” This, like many clichés, so l — David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

I was worse off than even Alison was; she hated life, I hated mysef. I had created nothing, I belonged to nothingness, t — John Fowles, The Magus

Life that did not yearn toward life was in fair way toward ceasing. — Jack London, Martin Eden

He is always on the brink of suicide... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the — Umberto Eco

To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the tidal — Jacob M. Appel, The Biology of Luck

Long after you go downand the vessel rusts apartyour bones sunkenburied in the ocean floorI wonder if you miss people? — Kristin Elizabeth Clark, Freakboy

Have you ever wondered why we bury and cremate our dead? Nothing to do with hygiene, it’s just so we don’t have to see t — Cliff James, Of Bodies Changed

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