An attempt was mede to classify 12 suicide notes of a group of youths (16-24 years of age). The contents of the notes consisted largely of frustration negative self-assesment and propensity to self-punishment, and characteristically, they took suicide as an escape from the present when they found themselves in a critial siuation, or in the face of something unavoidable and inevitable. Of the 12 suicides, 11 were a type of suicide that ocuurred frequenthly suring the course of the settlement of the university campus dispute, and one was a coed who was receiving medical treatment for an internal disease. In the former, the suicide was one that occurred under special circumstances. And for this reason, it could serve as a futher clue in understanding the suicidal act in the youth of Japan.