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Conrad Henri Roy III (September 12, 1995 – July 12, 2014) was an American marine salvage captain who died by suicide at the age of 18. His girlfriend, 17-year-old Michelle Carter, had encouraged him in text messages to kill himself.
Saddam recited the Shahada twice as he was executed, dying as he said "and Muhammad" in his second recitation. "My address is 130 Green Meadow Lane, Fayetteville, Georgia 30215" [11] — Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (24 June 2007), last text message sent to a co-worker before committing murder-suicide. [82]
Which is referred as "Death with Dignity" dying for a greater cause. Seppuku was a Japanese practice of ritual suicide by disembowelment. The Japanese military during World War II encouraged and glorified kamikaze attacks, and Japanese society as a whole has been described as "suicide-tolerant" (see Suicide in Japan).
A gruesome crime, a cruel penalty. Some might think justice was done. But was it?
"It is a bad cause which cannot bear the words of a dying man." [17] [note 94] — Henry Vane the Younger, English politician, statesman and colonial governor (14 June 1662), prior to execution by beheading for treason "My God, forsake me not." [17] [note 95] — Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist and theologian (19 August 1662)
Williams was among death row inmates in five states who were scheduled to be put to death in the span of a week — an unusually high number that defies a yearslong decline in the use and support ...
The 54-year-old is the third person to be put to death in Texas this year, and the 11th in the US. As of 2011, death row inmates in Texas cannot request a final meal, meaning Burton had to choose ...
Himmler's corpse after his suicide by cyanide poisoning, May 1945 "I am Heinrich Himmler." [235] — Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi officer (23 May 1945), last words said during his suicide shortly after bitting into a hidden potassium cyanide pill before collapsing dead onto the floor of the headquarters of the Second British Army in Lüneburg.