Thus I advise against suicide. Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perhaps a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband’s clothes.

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American writer and journalist [Henry Lewis Mencken]

“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot!” The American Mercury (Apr 1928)

Review of R. Cavan, Suicide. Full text.