The Death-wish of Suicide is a ribald poetic form concerning death originally devised by the goblin Strasm Viciousreproached. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. Use of alliteration is characteristic of the form. Each line has five feet with a syllable weight pattern of long-long (quantitative spondaic pentameter). The third line of the tercet must expand the idea of the first line. The first line is intended to make an assertion. The second line is intended to make a counter-assertion. The third line is intended to synthesize previous ideas.