“Eventually sinking into despair, [Heinrich von Kleist] shot himself in 1811 as part of a suicide pact made with a woman suffering from incurable cancer.”
“We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.”
“Suicide pact: I’ll shoot you, and then you’ll shoot me.”
“(On Dickens) No other writer is quite as good at making marriage vows about remaining together "till death us do part" sound more like a suicide pact.”
“They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.”
“Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.”