“We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.” HappenedLessonsVictimSuicideLondonSparesJulyBombersSuicide Bombers Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
“Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound even when it is uttered. For suicide is a taboo subject that stigmatizes not only the victim but the survivors as well.” WellsSoundCompanySubjectsVictimSuicideSurvivorDreadPoliteFamily And FriendsTabooInappropriate Book:Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, Postvention Source: Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, Postvention
“Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.” KnowsPersonsTwoDifferentProblemCuttingVictimSuicideSymptomsSingle Person Author:Pink
“Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.” SometimesPastLife IsDiesHavensVictimSuicideFoulTempting Author:F. Sionil José
“Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.” GivingSocialCausesSpecialConditionsInvolvedVictimSuicidePhenomenonStampsSuicidalTemperament Book:Suicide Source: Suicide
“You get to the point where you decide that you don't want to be a victim anymore and that you're not going to live your life like that.” WantInspirationalMotivationalHealthyVictimSuicideWell BeingLive Your LifeSuicidal Thoughts Author:Kayla Harrison
“The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs” LeftBloodPossibilityWeaponsVictimSuicideRevengeTerroristDesperateBombingMixingExacting RevengeTaking Revenge Author:A. B. Yehoshua
“The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result” KnowsTermResultsCasesProduceNegativeVictimSuicide Book:Suicide Source: Suicide
“That day wasn't the first time I had attempted suicide. Simply disappearing into the distant nothingness where there was no pain and no more feelings - back then I thought it an act of empowerment. Otherwise I had very little power to make any decisions about my life, my body, my actions. Taking my own life seemed my last trump card.” DespairDepressionVictimSuicideTraumaPowerlessSuicidalHostagePowerlessnessKidnappingKidnappedSuicide Attempt Book:3,096 Days Source: 3,096 Days