Kosinski committed suicide on 1991 by taking a fatal dose of barbiturates. His parting suicide note read: "I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual.Call it Eternity".

Increasingly insane, he finally committed suicide in 1855, hanging himself from a window grating. He left only a brief note to his aunt: "Do not wait up for me this evening, for the night will be black and white."

Crevel killed himself just before his 35th birthday. It should be remembered that when Surrealists posed the question of Suicide, Crevel wrote "It is most probably the most correct and most ultimate solution."

In 1983, suffering from Parkinson's disease and leukemia, Koestler committed joint suicide with his third wife, Cynthia, by taking an overdose of drugs.

Thomas Chatterton (1752 – 1770) was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. Committing suicide by arsenic rather than die of starvation at the young age of 17.

One of the most brilliant writers recently unearthed by the English-speaking literary world. After his wife died, he retreated more and more into isolation. Márai committed suicide by a gunshot in San Diego in 1989.

Williams struggled with depression throughout most of his life and lived with the constant fear that he would go insane as did his sister Rose. Not suicide properly speaking, but a slow self-induced death indeed.

Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad agai. And I shan’t recover this time. I am doing what seems the best thing to do. I can’t fight any longer. I can’t go on spoiling your life any longer. I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been.

The 30 year old Sergei Yesenin committed suicide two days after being released from a psych ward where he was taken to cure a mental breakdown he had suffered probably due to excessive drinking. He had the previous day cut his wrists and written a farewell poem in his own blood. Lead provided by Kenneth D. Gartrell.