The New York Times described the contents of his two-page suicide note to his wife: " he was heartbroken at being unable to see her once again, and expressing deep regret at having hurt her, the dearest thing in his life.

* " The Hound of Heaven " was mentioned in the suicide note of George R. Price, a geneticist who pioneered the evolutionary theory of altruism and suicide ( among other things ), before becoming a committed Christian and giving away all his possessions to the poor.

urges Veronica to forge a dramatic suicide note in Heather Chandler's handwriting.

offers to plant materials beside the other boys suggesting they were homosexuals, as well as a suicide note stating the two were lovers participating in a suicide pact.

Martha Dunnstock, an obese, regularly bullied student known as " Martha Dumptruck ", pins a suicide note to her chest and walks into traffic.

A petition he has been circulating via Heather Duke, to get the band Big Fun to perform on campus was actually a disguised mass suicide note.

She may have committed suicide by shooting herself after a quarrel with Stalin, leaving a suicide note which according to their daughter was " partly personal, partly political ".

His suicide note read: " I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual.

He left a suicide note, which Lewis withheld until shortly before his own death decades later.

According to biographer Julie Phillips, the suicide note Sheldon left was written years earlier, and saved until needed.

Halliwell left a suicide note, informing police that all would be explained if they read Orton's diaries, " especially the latter part ".

His mother ( Eric Idle ) reads the joke, at first believing it to be a suicide note, and also dies laughing.

Huneker left two notes-the first a suicide note, the second of which said, " Alien radio message — unveil new technology.

Gerald Kaufman, once Harold Wilson's press officer and during the 1980s prominent on the Labour right, described the 1983 Labour manifesto as " the longest suicide note in history ".

Hughes's biographers note that Plath did not relate her history of depression and suicide to him until much later.

A suicide note of sorts, actually a draft of a resignation letter, was found torn into 27 pieces in his briefcase, a list of complaints specifically including, " The WSJ editors lie without consequence " and lamenting, " I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington.

This letter is widely interpreted as a suicide note.

Roger Angleton later admits to the crime in his suicide note.

* January 20, 1983: St. Louis County, Missouri Parkway South Middle School The eighth grade shooter brought a blue duffel bag containing two pistols and a murder / suicide note that outlined his intention to kill the next person heard speaking ill of his older brother, Ken, to school.

She reputedly wrote on her suicide note, " Chairman!

He left a note which said specifically that his death had no relation to Seberg's suicide.

While he was at it, the philosopher of the Kremlin contributed an additional assist to the rule of reason by bellowing at those in the west who can't appreciate coexistence thru suicide.

Moreover, the diabetic patient who relies on cure by the quack device and therefore cuts off his insulin intake can be committing suicide.

`` I am consciously prepared to run the continued risk of ' race suicide by accident ' rather than accept the alternative certainty of race slavery by design.

Alex is then subjected to a relentless barrage of classical music, prompting him to attempt suicide by leaping from a high window.

Alex wakes up in hospital, where he is courted by government officials anxious to counter the bad publicity created by his suicide attempt.

Afterwards, he does not want to be interviewed by the police, since he has committed a crime by attempting suicide, and fears arrest .</ br > Cottard's personality changes after the outbreak of plague.

The Triumvirate was eventually torn apart under the competing ambitions of its members: Lepidus was driven into exile and stripped of his position, and Antony committed suicide following his defeat at the Battle of Actium by Augustus in 31 BC.

* 30 BC – Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide, allegedly by means of an asp bite.

She then committed suicide by stabbing herself with the same sword she gave Aeneas when they first met.

Abdülaziz was deposed by his ministers on 30 May 1876 ; his death at Feriye Palace in Constantinople a few days later was attributed to suicide at the time, although in Sultan Abdulhamid II's recently surfaced memoirs, the event is described as an assassination by the order of Hussein Avni Pasha and Midhat Pasha.

* 1644 – The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.

* 1945 – World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.

An assassination may be prompted by religious, ideological, political, or military motives ; it may be carried out for the prospect of financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from the desire to acquire fame or notoriety ( that is, a psychological need to garner personal public recognition ), from the wish to form some kind of " relationship " with a public figure, or from the desire ( or at least the willingness ) to be killed or commit suicide in the act.

The feud and Fisher's suicide were used as the basis for a lurid, highly fictionalized murder mystery, Strip for Murder by Max Allan Collins.

Amok episodes of this kind normally end with the attacker being killed by bystanders or committing suicide, eliciting theories that amok may be a form of intentional suicide in cultures where suicide is heavily stigmatized.

If the individual is seeking death an alternate method is often suicide by cop.

A suicide attempt with sleeping pills two days earlier was denied by her public relations manager.

On 20 September 2011, Rabbani was assassinated by a suicide bomber entering his home in Kabul.

On 17 July 2003, Kelly, an employee of the Ministry of Defence, apparently committed suicide after being misquoted by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan as saying that Tony Blair's Labour government had knowingly " sexed up " the " September Dossier ", a report into Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.

Having the hardware-based self-destruct control on the body, rather than in his software, prevented Bender from committing suicide in " A Head in the Polls " when he pawned his body for cash, grew desperate without it and wanted to kill himself.