Someone’s drove him to suicide. And I’m going to find out who. Brighton Rock [US: Young Scarface] 1947 starring Richard Attenborough & Carol Marsh & Hermione Baddeley & William Hartnell & Harcourt Williams & Wylie Watson & Nigel Stock & Reginald Purdell & George Carney & Charles Goldner & Alan Wheatley, director John Boulting, Ida in bar
I still can’t believe Katie killed herself. Kidulthood 2006 starring Aml Ameen & Red Madrell & Adam Deacon & Noel Clarke & Jaime Winstone & Femi Oyeniran & Madeleine Fairley & Cornell John & Rafe Spall & Nicholas Hoult, director Menhaj Huda, gal
I’m glad it is all over. I want to die. It’s no use to live. The Sound of Fury 1950 starring Frank Lovejoy & Lloyd Bridges & Kathleen Ryan & Richard Carlson & Katherine Locke & Adale Jergens & Art Smith et al, director Cyril Endfield, letter to wife
How about suicide? The Ladykillers 1955 starring Alec Guinness & Peter Sellers & Cecil Parker & Herbert Lom & Danny Green & Jack Warner & Frankie Howerd & Katie Johnson et al, director Alexander Mackendrick, Peter Sellers
Every single day I wake up and I think of a reason not to do it. Every single day. Lethal Weapon 1987 starring Mel Gibson & Danny Glover & Gary Busey & Mitchell Ryan & Tom Atkins & Darlene Love & Traci Wolfe & Jackie Swanson & Ebonie Smith et al, director Richard Donner, Gibson to Glover of suicide
Everybody’s fucking suicidal. In Bruges 2008 starring Colin Farrell & Brendan Gleeson & Elizabeth Berrington & Ralph Fiennes & Clemence Poesy & Jordan Prentice & Thekla Reuten & Jeremie Renier & Anna Madeley et al, director Martin McDonagh, Harry
There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors. Tennessee Williams
Big Daddy: Son, why don’t you kill yourself?
Brick: ’Cause I like to drink. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 starring Paul Newman & Elizabeth Taylor & Burl Ives & Judith Anderson & Jack Carson & Madeleine Sherwood & Larry Gates & Vaughn Taylor, director Richard Brooks
I want you to help me die. Star Trek: The Next Generation s5e16: Ethics, Worf to Riker
Suicide is not an option. ibid. Dr Crusher to Picard
I have decided to live. ibid. Worf to Alexander
It’s not like Dan to take his own life. Star Trek: The Next Generation s7e18: Eye of the Beholder, Dan’s bird
Why is it that suicide is considered a dishonourable death, Worf? Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s4e15: Sons of Mogh
Damn! He’s trying to kill himself. He’s activated a neuron depolarising devise in his brain. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s7e23, Extreme Measures, Bashir to O’Brien
Initiate self-destruct sequence. Authorisation Janeway Pi One One Zero. Star Trek: Voyager s2e26: Basics I, Janeway to computer
I’m not trying to kill myself; I’m trying to see if I’m alive. Star Trek: Voyager s5e3: Extreme Risk, B’Elanna to Chakotay
I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumbs and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go. Siegfried Sassoon, Suicide in the Trenches
American troops were appalled to see how many civilians were prepared to commit suicide. Secrets of World War II e10: The Greatest Sea/Air Battle in History, BBC 1998
Many simply couldn’t imagine Germany after the Third Reich. Mass suicide occurred across the country on a scale never before seen in western Europe. Third Reich: The Fall II, History 2010
In April and May of 1945 there were 5,000 suicides in Berlin. One of these was Adolf Hitler’s. ibid.
As many as two million German women were raped by Red Army soldiers. One in ten women raped in Berlin died as a result. Most from suicide. ibid.
He [Hitler] had developed a passion for his own niece ... and she had just committed suicide. Hitler’s Rise: The Colour Films II, Channel 4 2013
He [Hitler] had conceived a passion for his own niece ... Geli Raubal has just committed suicide. Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler II: The Fuhrer, France 2 2011
Maria Reiter was sixteen; her brother-in-law only just saved her from suicide when Hitler spurned her. Geli Raubal was Hitler’s niece: she was only twenty-three when she killed herself in Hitler’s apartment. Unity Mitford was the English aristocrat infatuated with Hitler who shot herself when she was twenty-five. Nazi Secrets: Hitler’s Damned Women, National Geographic 2012
The most likely possibility is that he will commit suicide. Dr Walter C Langer, The Mind of Adolf Hitler
He [Langer] was most interested in Hitler’s relationship with his niece, Geli Raubal. There was speculation in the Hitler literature that he was more than just an uncle to the teenager. He couldn’t talk to Geli because she had committed suicide in 1930, apparently following a row with Hitler. Timewatch: Inside the Mind of Adolf Hitler, BBC 2005
Ten days after his final appearance before the cameras Hitler committed suicide. The war was over. The Nazi nightmare was over. Hitler was silenced for ever. Hitler’s Private World, 2006
Now the Fuhrer too was to take his own life. But only when Soviet troops were yards away from him. He shot himself shortly before 3.30 on the afternoon of 30th April 1945. The Nazis: A Warning From History: Fighting to the End, BBC 1997
Goering availed himself of a capsule of cyanide. Hitler’s Henchmen: Goering the Marshall, 2001
Goering had eluded the executioner. How had Goering managed to smuggle the poison past all the checkpoints into his cell? Goering: A Career III
It’s been estimated that as many Australians veterans committed suicide as died in the entire war. John Pilger, Other People’s Wars, ITV 1988
The world often sees the issues of Palestine through the tragedy and horror of suicide bombings. An expression of despair by powerless people against an oppressor armed with modern weapons. The first female suicide bomber struck in January 1992; her name was Wafa Idris. The only daughter of a family of refugees who were driven out of their home near Tel Aviv. She was twenty-eight, an ambulance volunteer. What makes an ambulance volunteer, a carer, become a suicide-bomber? John Pilger, Palestine is Still the Issue, ITV 2002
Found Drowned by G F Watts is an almost religion vision of the fallen woman. Stretched out like a martyr to Victorian morality ... Her body is bathed in a warm light. Set against a cold uncaring world. A single light shines down on her ... Its title was taken from a regular column in The Times newspaper which listed the number of women who had thrown themselves into the Thames. Jeremy Paxman: The Victorians: Home Sweet Home, BBC 2009
I think a lot of these kids believe that they’re going to be around to watch who comes to the funeral and who gives them respect or gives them a sense of care and a sense of love which many of them feel they don’t have – that’s a terrible reason to commit suicide. So, my life for a moment of respect. It’s a hell of a bargain. Professor Colin Tatz, Director Genocide Studies Centre Macquarie University
In a suicide note left in an envelope for police a forty-five-year-old man wrote that he killed his mother-in-law, wife and three sons ages nineteen, twelve and seven over finances. Andrew Materi, Inconvenient Death of the Working Class
No-one else in this market has had the balls to commit suicide. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps 2010 starring Michael Douglas & Shia LaBeouf & Josh Brolin & Carey Mulligan & Eli Wallach & Susan Sarandon & Frank Langella & Austin Pendleton & Sylvia Miles & Venessa Ferlito & Jason Clark et al, director Oliver Stone, Gekko to Jacob