The suicide one is very sad . . . Messages in bottles are strange things--they show a desire to communicate, but in a sort of lottery-ticket way. They're a request for a a miracle, because what are the chances that someone finds the message? And when you put in remembrances of people who have passed away, or feelings of thanks, or commemorations of, say, a wedding, what doing is something else--it's a ceremonial gesture with the possibility of a future witness, if someone should find it. And I guess a suicide note in a bottle is someone who wants to express their despair, and yet doesn't feel able to leave it for friends. Wanting to make a statement, yet wanting it to be hidden at the same time. I understand that feeling--not the despair, but the wanting to speak, wanting to make a declaration, yet wanting it not to be heard by anyone who knows me.