Suicide Club
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The Suicide Club was a secret society in San Francisco that was founded by Gary Warne and two friends. It began in Spring 1977 as a course that Warne taught at the Communiversity in San Francisco, part of the Free School Movement, and it lasted until shortly before Warne's death in 1983. Events generally started and ended in Warne's used paperback bookstore, Circus of the Soul.
The name of the Suicide Club was inspired by three stories written by Robert Louis Stevenson, where men who want to die belong to a club, where each evening one of them is randomly selected for death. The name belied the gentle albeit zany nature of its members, who had a predilection towards light-hearted practical jokes.
In 1986, some of the former members of the Suicide Club formed the Cacophony Society, a group similar in spirit to the Suicide Club. There are now Cacophony Societies throughout the world.
The Suicide Club is also the name of multiple movies based on the Stevenson short story.
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