Editing Suicide note (section)

{{Short description|Message left by a person intending to die}}
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[[File:Lettre de Dalida.png|thumb|"{{lang|fr|La vie m'est insupportable. Pardonnez-moi}}." ({{gloss|Life is unbearable for me. Forgive me.}}) -[[Dalida]]'s suicide note]]
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A '''suicide note''' or '''death note''' is a message written by a person who intends to die by [[suicide]].

A study examining Japanese suicide notes estimated that 25–30% of suicides are accompanied by a note. However, incidence rates may depend on ethnicity and cultural differences, and may reach rates as high as 50% in certain demographics.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=SHIOIRI |first1=TOSHIKI |last2=NISHIMURA |first2=AKIYOSHI |last3=AKAZAWA |first3=KOHEI |last4=ABE |first4=RYO |last5=NUSHIDA |first5=HIDEYUKI |last6=UENO |first6=YASUHIRO |last7=KOJIKA-MARUYAMA |first7=MAKI |last8=SOMEYA |first8=TOSHIYUKI |title=Incidence of note-leaving remains constant despite increasing suicide rates |journal=Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences |date=April 2005 |volume=59 |issue=2 |pages=226–228 |doi=10.1111/j.1440-1819.2005.01364.x |pmid=15823174 |s2cid=28986718|doi-access=free}}</ref> 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.