The librarian and the suicide book

This joke plays on the dark humor of suicide combined with the stereotype of a librarian's concern about overdue books. The librarian's response is unexpected and darkly funny because it prioritizes the return of the book over the man's life.

• Suicide
• Man
• Death
• Bringing
• Library
• Book

• Why don’t you get a book about how to commit suicide? Because you won’t bring it back afterwards.
• This guy came into my library a year ago and borrowed a book named "How to Commit Suicide." He never returned it.
• A man walks into a library and asks for books about paranoia. The librarian whispers, "They're right behind you!"
• You wanna hear a suicide joke? Nvm, it didn't make it.