This Famous Quote About Suicide Is Dangerously Wrong

David Foster Wallace, one of the greatest American novelists of all time, has a hugely popular quote about suicide…and it’s dead wrong.

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On September 12, 2008, David Foster Wallace wrote a note to his wife, stacked an unfinished manuscript on his desk, and hung himself from the back porch of his Claremont, California home.