Suicide note

A suicide note or death note is a message written by a person who intends to die by suicide.

However, incidence rates may depend on ethnicity and cultural differences, and may reach rates as high as 50% in certain demographics.

[1] A suicide message can be in any form or medium, but the most common methods are by a written note, an audio message, or a video.

Some fields of study, such as sociology, psychiatry and graphology, have investigated the reasons why people who complete or attempt suicide leave a note.

The most common reasons that people contemplating suicide choose to write a suicide note include one or more of the following:[2] 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.