Even if some won’t feel too comfortable about it, today’s blogpost concentrates on a taboo of our society: The desire to wilfully end one’s own life without assistance.

People committed suicide throughout history. About one of the most famous we can already read from Plutarch: Cleopatra, who arranged to be bitten by a poisonous snake.

There are many other prominent examples of suicide:

• Ernest Hemingway (shot himself),
• Karen Carpenter (anorexia),
• Jim Morrison (drugs),
• Jennifer Nitsch (leap out of the window),
• Hannelore Kohl (sleeping pills),
• Sid Vicious (heroin overdose).