Literature is the space in which the inadmissible – including the otherwise largely unacceptable or unspeakable question of suicide – can be addressed. Focusing on the prominence of representations of suicide in modernist literature, this chapter addresses the question in the work of Woolf, Joyce, and Beckett. It argues that in Samuel Beckett’s major works, suicide appears prominently, and yet in the margins, while the works that thematise suicide are relatively minor in the Beckett canon. By distancing the act from the affective intensity with which it is usually associated, Beckett’s prolific references to suicide present the act as both unexceptional and lacking in pathos. This view of suicide can be aligned with the late-nineteenth-century views of the psychiatrist Henry Maudsley, who considers suicide, ‘just a necessary incident from time to time’ in the course of the subject’s evolutions.