Random Last Words Written By Famous People In Their Suicide Notes (19 items)

(#1) Virginia Woolf
- Dec. at 59 (1882-1941)
I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices.

Woolf died by drowning herself in the River Ouse at Lewes.
(#2) Wendy O. Williams
- Dec. at 48 (1949-1998)
The act of taking my own life is not something I am doing without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so is one of the most fundamental rights that anyone in a free society should have. For me much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and a place where there is no self, only calm. Love always, Wendy.

Wendy O. Williams died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
(#3) James Whale
- Dec. at 67 (1889-1957)
The future is just old age and illness and pain.... I must have peace and this is the only way.

James Whale drowned himself in his Pacific Palisades swimming pool.
(#4) Lupe Vélez
- Dec. at 36 (1908-1944)
To Harald,

May God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby’s, before I bring him shame or killing him. How could you, Harald, fake such great love for me and our baby when all this time you didn’t want us? I see no other way out for me, so good-bye and good luck to you.

Love, Lupe

Four months pregnant, Lupe Vélez took an overdose of sleeping pills.
(#5) Hunter S. Thompson
- Dec. at 67 (1937-2005)
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always b*tchy. No Fun – for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax – This won't hurt.

Hunter S. Thompson left the note, titled "Football Season is Over," for his wife, Anita. He shot himself four days later at his home in Aspen, Colorado, after weeks of pain from a host of physical problems that included a broken leg and a hip replacement. The two were on the telephone at the time.
(#6) Kate Spade
- Dec. at 55 (1962 - 2018)
Bea - I have always loved you. This is not your fault. Ask Daddy!

Kate Spade hanged herself in an apparent suicide at her Manhattan apartment, according to New York Police Department sources.
(#7) Kurt Cobain
- Dec. at 27 (1967-1994)
Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going Courtney, for Frances for her life will be so much happier without me. I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU.

Kurt Cobain’s death was officially ruled a suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
(#8) Sara Teasdale
- Dec. at 48 (1884-1933)
When I am dead, and over me bright April
Shakes out her rain drenched hair,
Tho you should lean above me broken hearted,
I shall not care.
For I shall have peace.
As leafey trees are peaceful
When rain bends down the bough.
And I shall be more silent and cold hearted
Than you are now.

Sara Teasdale died in 1933, by suicide, overdosing on sleeping pills.
(#9) George Sanders
- Dec. at 65 (1906-1972)
Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck.

George Sanders died of a cardiac arrest two days after swallowing the contents of five bottles of the barbiturate Nembutal.
(#10) Freddie Prinze
- Dec. at 22 (1954-1977)
I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally.

Freddie Prinze fatally shot himself in the head in front of his agent, Marvin “Dusty” Snyder, after years of struggling with his mental health.
(#11) Vachel Lindsay
- Dec. at 52 (1879-1931)
They tried to get me - I got them first!

Vachel Lindsay completed suicide by drinking a bottle of lye on December 5, 1931.
(#12) Vincent van Gogh
- Dec. at 37 (1853-1890)
La tristesse durera toujours.

Translation: "The sadness will last forever."

Vincent van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a revolver in a field near Auvers, in 1890.
(#13) Christine Chubbuck
- Dec. at 29 (1944-1974)
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first - an attempted suicide.

Christine Chubbuck shot herself during a broadcast.
(#14) Robert E. Howard
- Dec. at 30 (1906-1936)
All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre;
The feast is over, and the lamps expire.

Robert Howard shot himself in his car outside of the hospital after learning that his mother would likely never regain consciousness. He died eight hours later, and his mother died the next day.
(#15) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Dec. at 75 (1860-1935)
When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman died on August 17, 1935, by taking an overdose of chloroform.
(#16) Sergei Yesenin
- Dec. at 30 (1895-1925)
Goodbye, my friend, goodbye
My love, you are in my heart.
It was preordained we should part
And be reunited by and by.
Goodbye: no handshake to endure.
Let's have no sadness -- furrowed brow.
There's nothing new in dying now
Though living is no newer.

This note was written in his own blood, and given to a friend the day before Sergei Esenin hanged himself.
(#17) George Eastman
- Dec. at 77 (1854-1932)
To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?

George Eastman, who was suffering from lumbar spinal stenosis, shot himself in the heart.
(#18) Hart Crane
- Dec. at 32 (1899-1932)
Goodbye, everybody!

These were the last words of Hart Crane as he jumped off the cruise ship Orizaba. His body was never found.
(#19) Nicolas Chamfort
- Dec. at 53 (1741-1794)
Moi, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, déclare avoir voulu mourir en homme libre plutôt que d'être reconduit en esclave dans une maison d'arrêt

Translation: "I, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, hereby declare my wish to die a free man rather than to continue to live as a slave in a prison"

Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort shot himself in the face becuase he couldn't tolerate the thought of being imprisoned again.