Today it is believed that the main reason for suicide is a person’s feeling of the meaninglessness or impossibility of his existence. Often, problems of various kinds, mental and physical pain, misunderstanding, unhappy love become the wall with which a person fences himself off from others, and then, finding himself in an emotional vacuum, cannot cope with it. This is how Marina Tsvetaeva, Sergei Yesenin, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Gennady Shpalikov, Ernest Hemingway, Vsevolod Garshin and many others passed away. This book tells about the 50 most famous suicides and the reasons why they took their own lives.