- "We're not. Huh."
- ―Joan Lambert expressing her hopelessness while producing a pack of suicide pills (from Alien (novel))
Suicide pills were a type of pill designed to kill the user. They were packaged on card, and were emblazoned with skull-and-crossbone symbols. USCSS Nostromo crewmember Joan Lambert proposed using suicide pills to colleagues Ellen Ripley and Dennis Parker during a Xenomorph outbreak on the ship that had left them the survivors thus far. Ripley refused, however, and convinced Lambert to try to stay alive.