Christine Chubbuck was the first and only television news reporter to commit suicide during a live television broadcast. On July 15, 1974, eight minutes into the broadcast, the depressed reporter said “In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first: an attempted suicide.” With that, Chubbuck drew up a revolver and shot herself in the head.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word suicide was first used in 1651, but Alfred Alvarez reported in 1972 that it appeared in Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici in 1642. The Oxford English Dictionary states that the word suicidium was actually derived by combining the Latin pronoun for “self” and the verb “to kill.” The word sounds deceptively Latin, but Henry Romilly Fedden, in his 1938 book Suicide, stated that the Romans described the act using Latin phrases, such as vim sibi inferre (to cause violence to oneself), sibi mortem consciscere (to procure one’s own death), and sua manu cadere (to fall by one’s own hand).

(Source: deathreference.com)

I feel like if there ever was a suicide pill like this it would have to be extremely controlled.  I mean it could also serve as a tool of murder.  I mean it would have to only work while in whole pill form, since if somebody could crush it and put it into something that would wreck havoc worldwide.  How would they be able to differ suicide from murder when it is in a single pill?  Even in whole pill form it would still be a powerful tool.  Not like murder was a big problem in Children of Men, I mean everyone thought infertility was the end of it all.