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A suicide note or death note is a message left behind by a person who intends to commit suicide .Occasionally, it is faked by someone wanting to start a new life or avoid prison, or for other reasons.
It is estimated that 25–30% of suicides are accompanied by a note. According to Gelder, Mayou and Geddes (2005) one in six leaves a suicide note. The content can be a plea for absolution or blaming family and friends for life's failings.However, incidence rates may depend on ethnicity, method of suicide, and cultural differences, and may reach rates as high as 50% in certain demographics.A suicide message can be a written note, an audio message, or a video.

Reasons

Some fields of study such as sociology, psychiatry and graphology, have investigated the reasons why people who commit suicide leave a note.
According to Olsen (2005), the most common reasons that people contemplating suicide choose to write a suicide note include one or more of the following:

• To ease the pain of those known to the victim by attempting to dissipate guilt.
• To increase the pain of survivors by attempting to create guilt.
• To set out the reason(s) for suicide.
• To express thoughts and feelings that the person felt unable to express in life.
• To give instructions for disposal of the remains.
• Occasionally, to confess acts of murder or some other offence.

Sometimes there is also a message in the case of murder–suicide, explaining the reason(s) for the murder(s), see for example, Marc Lépine's suicide statement and videotaped statements of the 7 July 2005 London bombers.

Faked notes

Author Ken Kesey faked his suicide in 1965, leaving a note in his truck and fleeing to Mexico after having been arrested for possession of marijuana. When he returned to the United States, he was sentenced to six months in jail. Hedge fund manager Samuel Israel III left the message, "Suicide is Painless", in the dust on the hood of his abandoned SUV in an attempt to avoid a twenty year sentence for fraud.

Notable people who left suicide note

#Clara Blandick—American film actress, most famous for playing Auntie Em in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Her note stated, "I am now about to make the great adventure".

#Kurt Cobain—lead singer of Nirvana. The note is addressed to his childhood imaginary friend, and gives his reasons for leaving Nirvana, followed by a message to his wife, Courtney Love, and to his daughter, Frances Bean Cobain. The note made reference to Freddie Mercury and famously quoted "Hey Hey, My My" from Neil Young's album Rust Never Sleeps.

#Lee Eun-ju—She left a suicide note scrawled in blood, in which she wrote, "Mom, I am sorry and I love you." A separate note said, "I wanted to do too much. Even though I live, I'm not really alive. I don't want anyone to be disappointed. It's nice having money... I wanted to make money."

Virginia Woolf—English feminist author and poet. Her suicide note iterated that she feared she was on the brink of what would have been the latest in a series of breakdowns, and that she would rather die than endure another such episode. Her note concluded with a message to her husband telling him that she loved him and thanking him for the time they had together.

Dalida—popular French singer. She wrote, "Life has become unbearable ... forgive me."