Suicide Club Card Holder Agreement
The bearer agrees…
Essays and Ephemera
The San Francisco Suicide Club Description
THE SAN FRANCISCO SUICIDE CLUB DESCRIPTION Have you ever explored a subterranean sewer at night with forty other people; climbed three stories on a swinging rope ladder to dine on the roof of a condemned building; staged practical jokes you’ve always fantasized about? No…? How about dinner at Rev. Moon’s or talking a policeman into hitting you with a pie? Well… we […]
1st Initiation
Feb 2, 1977 (John Law remembers: Following is a fragment of a story I started about my impressions of this event.) Certain hands, seemingly familiar with the task at hand, were the hands I felt gently guiding me out of the van that I had occupied for the last hour along with six […]
Communiversity
Communiversity was a free alternative school that began at SF State in 1969. The Suicide Club was born as a ‘class’ in the 1977 spring catalog.
The Beginning
On January 2, 1977 gale warnings were issued in San Francisco, and, at midnight, four friends unexplainedly found themselves holding onto handrails as 20 foot waves broke over them. Afterwards, they agreed they wanted to explore other such experiences in a larger group of friends. The SUICIDE CLUB was chosen as a name, based on […]
