Notable Suicide Notes

George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak and inventor of roll film:
To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?

George Sanders, actor:
Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool – good luck.

James Whale, film director:
The future is just old age and illness and pain... I must have peace and this is the only way.

Tony Hancock, comedian:
Things seemed to go wrong too many times.

Virginia Woolf, author:
I feel certain that I’m going mad again. I feel we can’t go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time. I begin to hear voices.

The Invisible Man, scientist: