July 24, 6:03 A.M.The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.

Markus Zusak
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In the early 1980s, Michael Holzapfel, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, killed himself. In his will, he left almost his entire estate to a research institute that studies the psychology of suicide. He died a month before a change in state law that banned people from seeking to take their own lives with assisted suicide.

Source: The Book Thief

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