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This is a list of incidents of suicide — the intentional killing of oneself — depicted in fictional works, including films, television series, anime and manga, comics, novels, etc. Also, self-sacrifices are included as they give up their own lives.


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* 1 ('' 9''), allows himself to be absorbed by the Fabrication Machine, saving 9 from said fate in the process. * Player 069 (''
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''), hangs himself.


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* Mona Aamons Monzano (''
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''), swallows ''ice-nine''. * Horace Abbeville (''
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''), shoots himself. * Abigaille (''
Nabucco ''Nabucco'' (, short for Nabucodonosor ; en, " Nebuchadnezzar") is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The libretto is based on the biblical books of 2 Kings, ...
''), poisons herself. * Adela (''
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''), hangs herself after her lover, Pepe el Romano, is announced killed by her mother. *
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, a character from Greek mythology, drowns himself after mistakenly believing that his son
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was dead. * Piyush Aggarwal (''
Masaan ''Masaan'' (; also known as ''Fly Away Solo'' in English) is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language independent drama film and starring Richa Chadda and Vicky Kaushal in lead roles. It is Kaushal's debut Hindi film, and is also the directorial debut of ...
''), slits one of his wrists. * Agnes (''
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''), jumps from a bridge. * Aida (''
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''), hides in the vault where Radamès has been imprisoned to die buried alive with him. * Al ('' Divergent''), jumping into the chasm. * Karen Aldrich (''
Ordinary People ''Ordinary People'' is a 1980 American drama film directed by Robert Redford in his directorial debut. The screenplay by Alvin Sargent is based on the 1976 novel of the same name by Judith Guest. The film follows the disintegration of an upper ...
''), runs her car while in the garage. * Alec (''
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''), cuts his throat. *
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''), unknown cause. In the anime, she is last seen standing at the top of a very tall building; it is assumed that she jumps. In the manga it is suggested that she hangs herself. *
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('' East of Eden''), takes a lethal dose of morphine. *
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''), stabs herself. *
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('' The Walking Dead''), shoots herself to prevent herself from turning into a walker after being bitten on the neck by an undead Milton Mamet. * Angelica (''
Suor Angelica ''Suor Angelica'' (''Sister Angelica'') is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an original Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is the second opera of the trio of operas known as ''Il trittico'' (''The Triptych''). It received its wor ...
''), poisons herself. * Cesare Angelotti (''
Tosca ''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1 ...
'') poisons himself offstage. * Brigham Anderson (''
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''), slits his throat. * An-Mei's mother ('' The Joy Luck Club''), eats Tangyuan laced with opium. * Anna (''
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''), poisons herself in guilt over Willoughby Smith's murder. * Anne (''
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''), hanging. *
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''), hangs herself whilst awaiting execution. * Antiope (''
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''), jumps in the way of a bullet to save
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. * Elena Apostol (''
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''), hangs herself. * Arrack (''
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''), uses a poison capsule hidden in his teeth. * Saren Arterius (''
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''), self-inflicted gunshot. * Asgore (''
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''), kills himself to give Frisk his soul in any neutral playthrough after the first, if the player chooses to spare him. *
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''),
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. * Leto Atreides (''
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''), poison gas capsule. * Axel (''
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''), channeling all his power into the Eternal Flames for a
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to clear Betwixt and Between of countless Dusks, dies (as a Nobody) from overexertion. *
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''), blows up her EVA to kill Armisael. * Azala (''
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''), refuses Ayla's offer to save her and allows herself to be killed by Lavos.


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* Kittan Bachika (''
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''), uses his Gunman's Drill Break to destroy the Death Spiral Machine in a
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, dying in the resulting explosion. * Baek Noa (''
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''), who changes his name to Nobuo Ban, shoots himself. * Michael Baguenault ('' Seven Poor Men of Sydney''), leaps from
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''), swallows a handful of pills (in the
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, she slits her wrists). *
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''), hangs herself. *
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''), defenestration. *
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('' Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales''), jumps from the anchor chain of the ''
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'' to save his daughter Carina Smyth from Armando Salazar, knowingly and willingly falling to his death in the process. * Sammy Barnathan (''
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''), jumps off of a building. * Bloody Baron (''
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''), stabs himself. * Basil ('' OMORI''), stabs himself using handheld gardening shears. * Lieutenant-Colonel Basil Barrow (''
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''), gunshot. * Lily Bart (''
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''), overdoses on
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(possible suicide). * John Barton ('' Looking for Alibrandi''), overdoses on pills. * Judy Barton (''
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''), after faking a suicide as Madeleine Elster, jumps from a mission tower after being startled by a nun. * Béatriz (''
The Exterminating Angel ''The Exterminating Angel'' ( es, El ángel exterminador, links=no) is a 1962 Mexican surrealist film written and directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Silvia Pinal, and produced by Pinal's then-husband Gustavo Alatriste. It tells the story of a g ...
''), likely ingests poisonous pills. * Fernand de Beaumont ('' Life: A User's Manual''), method unknown. * Malcolm Beech ('' Oblivion'') detonates fuel cells in an explosion to kill the Tet. * Val Beckett ('' Solo: A Star Wars Story''), blows herself up in a
suicide attack A suicide attack is any violent Strike (attack), attack, usually entailing the attacker detonating an explosive, where the attacker has suicide, accepted their own death as a direct result of the attacking method used. Suicide attacks have oc ...
. * Massoud Behrani ('' House of Sand and Fog''), suffocates himself. *Ava Bekker (''
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''), slits her throat open. * Jacqueline de Bellefort (''
Death on the Nile ''Death on the Nile'' is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 1 November 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at s ...
''), shoots herself. * Irene Belserion (''
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''), stabs herself. * Georg Bendemann (''
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''), throws himself off a bridge. * Jill Bennett (''
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''), asphyxia from choking on vomit while staging her kidnapping. * Julius Berman (''
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'') lights a cigarette and smokes it in a room slowly filling with natural gas, triggering an explosion. * Creighton Bernette ('' Treme'') throws himself off a ferry. * Beyard ('' Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade''), poisons himself. * Billy Bibbit ('' One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest''), slits own throat. * John Billings ('' The Patriot''), shoots himself. * Bing Bong ('' Inside Out''), jumps out of the rocket wagon. * Warren A. "Blackie" Black (''
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''), stabs his finger with a poisoned needle. * Carlton Bloom (''
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''), hangs himself. * Clifford Blossom ('' Riverdale''), hangs himself. * May Boatwright ('' The Secret Life of Bees''), drowns herself. * Bobby ('' Paper Mario: The Origami King''), blows up a rock. *
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''), uses the power of all three Calamity Gems to defeat the Core, resulting in her body disintegrating. Not long afterwards, she is resurrected in an identical new body. * Sarah Borden (''
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''), hangs herself. * Emma Bovary (''
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''), ingestion of arsenic. * Roger Bower (''
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''), shoots himself. * Norman Bowker (''
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''), hangs himself. * Mick Boyle (''
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''), jumps from a balcony. * Elizabeth Bradford (''
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''), jumping. * Karl-Heinz Bremann (''
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''), shoots himself. * Sergeant Brodski (''
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''), maneuvers himself and
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into the atmosphere of Earth Two, incinerating them both. * Rick Brogan ('' Surviving: A Family in Crisis''), suffocates himself inside a car with Lonnie. * Hecky Brown (''
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''), jumps out of a window. * Richard Brown ('' The Hours''), jumps out of a window. * Brünnhilde (''
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''), rides on horseback into her husband Siegfried's funeral pyre. * Bill Buchanan ('' 24''), wrestles a gun from a Sangalan insurgent and ignites an explosion in the
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presidential bunker by shooting the gun in the gas-filled room in a
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. * Lamar Burgess (''
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''), shoots himself. * Sammy Bushey ('' Under the Dome''), shoots herself. * Beatrice "Tris" Prior (" Allegiant") takes Caleb's place and survives the death serum, but is fatally shot by David.


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* Caelia ('' Tom a Lincoln''), drowns herself. * Nora Caldwell ('' Seconds Away''), shoots herself in the head. *
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('' Logan''), blows himself up in a truck with two grenades. * Father Donald Frank Callahan (''
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''), jumps out a window. * Pete Callan (''
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''),
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after shooting Trish Wallace. * Calvados (''
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''), shoots himself in the head. * Howard W. Campbell Jr. (''
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''), hangs himself. * Jericho Cane ('' End of Days''), impales himself on a sword. * At the beginning of '' Outland'', Cane, under the influence of drugs, enters an elevator that goes through vacuum without his spacesuit, resulting (unrealistically) in his death from
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. *
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''), stabs herself upon discovering that
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''), jumps off a roof of a hotel. * Leslie Abigail Cash ('' Captain Fantastic''), slits her wrists. * Russell Casse (''
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''), stabs himself. * James Castle (''
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''), jumps out of a window. * Captain Denis Cathcart (''
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''), shoots himself. * Catherine (''
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''), shoots himself in the head. * Katie Chandler ('' Stealing Home''), shoots herself. * Tom Chandler (''
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''), drives her car off a bridge. * Chen Jian-hao (''
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''), jumps from a building. * Chloe (''
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''), hangs herself. * Cho Sang-woo, also known as 218 (''
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''), stabs himself in the neck. * Ch'u Sing (''
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'' (gunshot). * Rosa "Miss Rosa" Cisneros (''
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''), shoots himself after shooting Kate Moses. * Morgan Clark (''
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''), hangs herself after going mad. * Ramos Clemente (''
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''), shoots himself. * Mallorie "Mal" Cobb (''
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''), jumping from heights. * Annie Collins-Nielsen ('' What Dreams May Come''), method unclear. *
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''), drowning. * Eliza Connor (''
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''), drowns herself. * Roger Corby (''
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''), leaps from a cliff to his death. * Richard Cory (''
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''), realizing he was supposed to have been killed by a jet engine that fell through the roof onto his bed at the beginning of the movie, allows that to happen as the month since then reverses itself. * Nathan Dawkins ('' Beyond: Two Souls''), shoots himself. * Jason "J.D." Dean (''
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''), blows herself up with a thermal detonator in a suicide attack. * Eduviges Dyada (''
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''), method unclear. * Dyne (''
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''), jumps off a cliff. * Dally (''
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'') essentially does what is known as "suicide by cop" where he, held up a gun, wasn't going to shoot, and got shot, despite the protagonist, Ponyboy, thinking, 'he's just a kid'. Dally did not die a hero.


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''), shoots himself in the chest. * Michael "Mike" Enslin ('' 1408''), dies from a fire he set in his hotel room in an attempt to destroy the haunted room in the director's cut and second alternate endings. In the theatrical, third alternate endings and short story from
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''), tears out its Philosopher's Stone core. * Eon-ju ('' A Blood Pledge''), jumps from the roof of a school. * Ewa Ericsson ('' Life: A User's Manual''), slits her wrists. * Sven Ericsson ('' Life: A User's Manual''), method unknown. *
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''), starves herself. * Marcy Franklin ('' After Hours''), unspecified means (probably intentional overdose), off-camera. * Tylendel Frelennye ('' Magic's Pawn''), the life-bonded of Vanyel Ashkevron, jumps off a tower. Myrtle and baby both jump off golden gate bridge


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''), deliberately causes a cave-in to preclude him from inevitably returning to prison once again, and in an unsuccessful attempt to kill both Mako and Bolin. * Edwin Gibbs ('' Darkest Fear''), or Nathan Mostoni, commits suicide in prison. * Maria Gibson ("
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''), allows herself to be assassinated in her lover's place. * Gioconda ( ''La Gioconda''), stabs herself. * Seymour Glass (" A Perfect Day for Bananafish"), shoots himself. * Godric (''
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''), chooses to die with his wife in the flooded sewer rather than climb to safety. * Vincent Grey (''
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''), breaks into main character Malcolm Crowe's house and then shoots himself. *
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''), shoots himself. * Kalil Hassan ('' 24''), drives his car into an oncoming cement truck. * Brooks Hatlen (''
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''), hangs himself. * Hatsumi ('' Norwegian Wood''), hangs herself. * Frank Hayden ('' Montana 1948''), slashes wrists with broken glass. * Delilah Jane Haynes (''
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''), hangs herself. * Heathcliff (''
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''), starves himself. * Grace Heke (''
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''), hangs herself. * Kurt Hendricks ('' Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol''), jumps to his death. * Henry (''
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''), shoots himself off-screen, gunshot audibly heard. * Hevy ('' Star Wars: The Clone Wars''), blows himself up in a suicide attack. * Hideko's aunt (''
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''), hangs herself. *
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''), stabs himself. * Avery Hill ('' Maurice Guest''), drowns herself. *
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''), attempts to kill his wife and her family by driving into a canal, but he is the only fatality. * Hitchcock (" No Particular Night or Morning"), enters the void of space from a station. * Zac Hobson ('' The Quiet Earth''), overdose of sleeping pills out of guilt over the research project he was working on the night before the Effect. * Caledon Hockley (''
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''), shoots himself through the mouth. * Sadojima Hōji (''
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''), slits his own throat. * Vice-Admiral Holdo ('' Star Wars: The Last Jedi''), rams the Resistance MC85 Star Cruiser ''Raddus'' at the First Order Mega-class Star Dreadnought Flagship ''Supremacy''. * Lionel Holland (''
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''), stabs himself with a dagger to avoid bankruptcy. * Midshipman Hollom ('' Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World''), jumps overboard with a cannonball. * Mary Holmes ('' On the Beach''), suicide pill. * Peter Holmes ('' On the Beach''), suicide pill. *
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''), throws himself from the cart. * David Hoope (''
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keeping her alive. *
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'') casts himself into the sea. * George Hurstwood (''
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''), inhales gas fumes. * Ellen Hutter (''
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''), sacrifices herself to destroy
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by letting him feed on her blood until sunrise. * Edward Hyde (''
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''), poisons himself. * Hyo-shin (''
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''), gets his own creation, one of his animatronics to kill him, because he feels he caused Afton's downfall.


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''), self-inflicted gunshot. * Im Sang-jin ('' Save Me''), jumps from a building. *
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''), who is holding on for dear life from being dragged down into a pit to the underworld, willingly lets go when he sees that his lover has forsaken him. * James O. Incandeza (''
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''), places his head in a microwave oven. * Celeste Inpax ('' Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Justice for All''), hangs herself after her fiancé Juan Corrida calls off their wedding. *
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''), manually detonates a nuclear device in space. * Isabella (''
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''), stabs herself. * Iván (''
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''), slits his own throat with a knife. * Nikolai Ivanov ('' Ivanov''), shoots himself.


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''), defenestration. * Don Jaime (''
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''), hangs himself. *
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''), jumps off bridge and drowns. *
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. * Albert Jerska (''
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''), hangs himself. * Jester ('' Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths''), blows himself, J'edd J'arkus and Angelique up with a bomb as part of a ploy to give his universe's
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time to escape. * Jiang Kai ('' Do Not Say We Have Nothing''), method unclear. * Jihei (''
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''), hangs himself. *
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''), hangs herself. * Young Joe (''
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''), shoots himself. * John (" Happy Endings"), shoots himself in plot C. * Iron John (''
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''), collapses a parking garage on himself. * John the Savage (''
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''), hangs himself. * Johnny (''
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''), shoots himself. * Frank Johnson (''
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''), incinerates himself before he turns into a zombie. * Joker (''
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''), snaps his own neck. * Mr. Jones ('' Dr. No''), swallows a cyanide capsule. * Jasper Jordan (''
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'') drug overdoses. * Joseph (''
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''), blows himself up. * Dayna Jurgens (''
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''), smashes her head through a glass window and thrashes her head around so that the sharp edges of the glass cut open her
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. * Jude (''
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''), explosion. * A junior officer in ''
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'' helps Captain Blanchard close a waterproof door from the opposite side after a hull breach to the submerged submarine, trapping himself on the water-filled side and drowning. * Juxian ('' Farewell My Concubine''), is found dead, method unknown.


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''), slits his throat. * Kanjigar the Courageous ('' Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia''), throws himself into the daylight to keep the Trollhunter amulet out of Bular's hands. * Anna Karenina (''
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''), steps into the path of a train. * Haman Karn (''
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''), deliberately crashes her mecha. * Father Damien Karras (''
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''), defenestration. * Kasili (''
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''), stabs herself after she finds the conspiracy of Qianlong Emperor, and tells her lover Chen Jialuo "Do not trust the emperor", by writing with blood. * Moritsugu Katsumoto (''
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''),
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. * Katsuro (''
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''), slits his throat with a shard of glass. * Keita (''
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''), jumps off the edge of Aincrad. * Joe Keller ('' All My Sons''), shoots himself. * Kelly ('' 2:37''), slits her wrists. * Joe Kelly (''
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''), found dead beside Katsumi Kelly, swallows poison. * Katsumi Kelly (''
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''), found dead beside Joe Kelly, swallows poison. * Kenji (''
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''), separates himself from Lee, falling to his death. *
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('' Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope''), allows
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to kill him so that
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to not save him when an incoming tornado sweeps him up to his death. * Dr. Khatri ('' Fortitude''), fires a flare gun in the helicopter after she realizes the mercenary from the extraction team flying it has been ordered to kill her, causing an explosion that destroys the helicopter and kills them both. *
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''), real name N'Jadaka, pulls a knife out of his chest and bleeds to death knowing that he can be saved with advanced medical technology. * Kim Jung-kyu (''
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''), method unknown. * Kim Jung-sook (''
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''), hangs herself. * Kim So-hee (''
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''), jumps from a hospital window. * Kim Yong-ho (''
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''), stands in front of a speeding train. * Felicia Kimball ('' Nightmare Alley''), shoots herself. *
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''), shoots herself off-screen in America. * Charles Kingshaw (''
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''), drowns himself. * Alexei Kirilov (''
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''), shoots himself. * George Kirk (''
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on the ''Narada''. * Kizuku ('' Norwegian Wood''), carbon monoxide poisoning. * Makoto Kobayashi ('' Colorful''), overdoses on pills. * Nagito Komaeda ('' Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair'') commits suicide by causing someone to unintentionally murder him in an attempt to create an unsolvable crime. * Irina Komarov (''
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''), dies after failed suicide attack. * Major Kong (''
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'') rides a nuclear bomb after it has been dropped from the bomber. * Kowalski (''
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''), while in space, to prevent dragging Dr. Stone with him, detaches the cable attached to the back of his MMU that Stone is holding onto, presumably suffocating in the subsequent few minutes after detaching. *
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''), intentionally provokes gang members to shoot him. * Taheji Koyama (''
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to kill him. * Millicent Kramer (''
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''), overdoses on sleeping pills. *
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''), shoots himself. * Yoji Kuramuto ('' Battle Royale''), in the film, hangs himself alongside his girlfriend Yoshimi Yahagi. * Lawrence Kutner (''
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, 2009-04-07. Retrieved on 2009-04-08.
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''), forces Jax to shoot him instead of surrendering. * Nathan Landau (''
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''), ingests sodium cyanide. * Alfred Lanning (''
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''), orders Sonny to throw him from the top floors of the US Robotics headquarters building. * Claude Lantier (''
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''), hangs himself. * Latios (''
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'') uses all his psychic ability to save Altomare from an oncoming tsunami, dying corporeally from overexertion. * Harold Lauder (''
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''), shoots himself in the head. * Laura ('' The Orphanage''), takes an overdose of sleeping pills. * Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence (''
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''), self-inflicted gunshot wound after murdering his drill instructor. * Georges Leblanc (''
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''), hangs himself. * Lee Cheon-ji (''
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''), hangs herself. * Lee Jin-pyo (''
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''), suicide by secret service. * Lee Soo-ah ('' Oldboy''), separates herself from her brother Woo-jin trying to pull her up, falling from a dam to her death. * Lee Soo-hyeok (''
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''), shoots himself in the mouth. * Lee Woo-jin ('' Oldboy''), shoots himself in the head. * Johan Leebig (''
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''), poisons himself out of fear of human contact. * General Leia Organa ('' Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker''), uses her remaining strength to reach out to her son
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. * Leonora (''
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''), poisons herself. * Ernst Lessner (''
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''), walks through a minefield until he detonates a landmine. * Myra Lester (''
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''), walks into path of a moving truck. * Sarah Lewis (''
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''), shoots herself. * Hu Li (''
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''), blows herself up. * Liam (''
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''), hangs himself rather than face retribution from a drugs gang. * Zuzanna "Zula" Lichoń (''
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''), overdoses on pills. * Su Lin (''
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''), stabs herself with a shard of glass. * Bonnie Lisbon (''
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''), hangs herself. * Cecilia Lisbon (''
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''), jumps out of her bedroom window. * Lux Lisbon (''
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''), poisons herself with carbon monoxide. * Mary Lisbon (''
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''), overdoses on sleeping pills. * Therese Lisbon (''
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''), overdoses on sleeping pills. * Tom Lister ('' Brute Force''), hangs himself. * Little Father Time (''
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''), hangs himself. * Liù (''
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''), stabs herself. *
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''), hangs himself one day into an 18-year prison sentence for sexually abusing his son. * Livia (''
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''), hangs herself. * Joy Lobo (''
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''), hangs himself. *
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''), car crash. * Kevin Lomax ('' The Devil's Advocate''), shoots himself to prevent being forced to create an heir, but is still alive after John Milton loops him back to the courthouse bathroom. * Mary Ann Lomax ('' The Devil's Advocate''), cuts her throat with the shards of a broken mirror. * Lonnie ('' Surviving: A Family in Crisis''), suffocates herself inside a car with Rick Brogan. * Ilse Lubin (''
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''), drowns herself. *
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''), shuts itself down, believing it deserves to die. * Maab (''
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''), deliberately lets the Klingon Kras disintegrate him with a phaser. *
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''), off-stage, method unspecified, "Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands took off her life". * Lori Madison ('' The Deuce''), shoots herself in the head in a hotel room. * Madotsuki (''
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''), throws herself off her apartment balcony. *
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''), casts himself into a fiery chasm. * Norman Maine ('' A Star Is Born''), drowns himself by getting inebriated and walking into the ocean. * Majid ('' Caché''), slits his throat. * Prince Mamuwalde (''
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''), intentionally exposes himself to sunlight. * Oscar "Manny" Manheim (''
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''), releases the railway coupling of a runaway train connecting the engine and the freight and soon crashes to his death. * Elliott Mantle ('' Dead Ringers''), disemboweled by his brother Beverly at his own request. The end of the film suggests Beverly then purposely overdoses. * Sal Marcano (''
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''), self-inflicted gunshot. * Traveler 3569, also known as Marcy Wharton ('' Travelers''), self-inflicted gunshot to prevent Traveler 001 from acquiring code for communicating with the director in Marcy's brain. A timeline reset later in the episode caused the chain of events leading to her suicide to never occur, and she is seen alive at the end. * Lt. Col. Matthew Andrew Markinson (''
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''), shoots himself. * Kate Marsh (''
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''), if the player chooses not to save her she will jump off the school roof. * Benigno Martín (''
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''), overdoses on sleeping pills. * Habib Marwan ('' 24''), while hanging from the upper floors of a parking structure, separates himself from a
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who is trying to pull him up to safety, falling to his death. * Mary (" Happy Endings"), overdoses on sleeping pills and aspirins in plot B. *
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and dies by jumping off the roof of the burning building. * George Mason ('' 24''), who has no more than a few hours to live due to exposure to plutonium radiation, convinces
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, dying from the blast. * Master Shake (''
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. * Matsumoto (" The Silence"), jumps in front of a train. * Yuko Matsunaka (" A Shinagawa Monkey"), slits her wrists. * M.C. (''
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, where he throws himself onto the electric fence. *
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''), sacrifices himself via electrocution while turning on a hospital generator in an attempt to revitalize Dr Mephesto. * Col. McCullough (''
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''), burns his own house while inside it. * Captain Black (Catch-22), McWatt (''Catch-22''), flies his plane into a mountain. * Meatwad (''
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''), shoots himself in the head. * Medora (''
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''), poisons herself. * Raul Menendez (''Call of Duty: Black Ops II''), self-immolation. * Michael Mensana (''First Reformed''), shoots himself. * Metal Sonic (''Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA)''), refuses help from Sonic the Hedgehog (character), the real Sonic and chooses to be killed by rising magma. * I. J. "Multiple" Miggs (''The Silence of the Lambs (novel), The Silence of the Lambs''), gets talked into killing himself by Hannibal Lecter. * Mighty (Bomberman Jetters), critically wounded, goes on a mission to destroy a Hige-Hige base, dying in the explosion. * Julia Milliken ('' 24''), shoots herself. * Teru Mikami (''
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''), stabs himself with a pen. * Naomi Misora (''
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''), hangs herself. * Jacob Mitchell (''A Simple Plan (film), A Simple Plan''), tells his brother to shoot and kill him, threatening to shoot himself if the brother does not comply. * Peggy Mitchell (''
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''), intentionally overdoses on medication. * Stanley "Stan" Mitchell (''Stan (song), Stan''), drowns himself and his pregnant girlfriend in a murder–suicide by driving off a bridge and into a river. * Mitsuhirato (''The Blue Lotus''), commits seppuku. * Miura (''The Bad Sleep Well''), runs in front of a moving truck. * Kyuzo Miyabe (''The Eternal Zero''), kamikaze. * Kojiro Miyawaki (''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle''), hangs himself. * Natsuko Miyawaki (''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle''), hangs herself. * Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club!), Monitor Kernel Access / Monika.chr / Monika (''Doki Doki Literature Club!''), deletes self from game. * Romeo, Romeo Montague (''
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''), takes poison after finding Juliet whom he believed to be dead. * "Papa" Monzano (''
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''), swallows ''ice-nine''. * Michael Moore (''Team America: World Police''), blows himself up in a suicide attack, suicide bombing. * Morao (''Celda 211''), slits his wrists. * Tom Morgan (''Eagle Eye''), rams his car into a large piece of metal in a
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. * James "Jim" Moriarty (''Sherlock (TV series), Sherlock''), shoots himself. * Jerome Morrow (''Gattaca''), sets himself on fire in the incinerator in his house. * Mothra (''Godzilla: Final Wars''), kamikazes into Gigan; killing both of them in the process. * Darren Mullet (''Tormented (2009 British film), Tormented''), hangs himself. * Aniki Murakawa (''Sonatine (1993 film), Sonatine''), shoots himself in the head. * Connor Murphy (''Dear Evan Hansen''), unspecified, but a song that was deleted from the final show alludes to an overdose on pills.


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''), casts herself into a river. * Nineteen-hundred (''The Legend of 1900''), or 1900, knowingly stays on a ship rigged to explode. * Nomad (''The Changeling (Star Trek: The Original Series)''), blows itself up after being convinced that it is not perfect after all. * Norma (''Norma (opera), Norma''), immolates herself. * Samuel Norton (''
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''), shoots himself. * Hasan Numair ('' 24''), detonates an atomic bomb in a Suicide attack, suicide terror attack. * El número (''Belle Epoque (film), Belle Epoque''), shoots himself. * Nux (Mad Max character), Nux (''Mad Max: Fury Road''), crashes his vehicle to collapse a canyon and its vehicles in a
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.


O

* Otto Octavius (film character), Doctor Octopus (''Spider-Man 2''), sacrifices himself to save New York City. * Sakura Ogami ('' Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc''), poisons herself. * Sakura Ogawa (''Battle Royale (novel), Battle Royale''), throws herself off a cliff alongside Kazuhiko Yamamoto. * Okonkwo (''Things Fall Apart''), hangs himself. * The unnamed old man in ''A Quiet Place (film), A Quiet Place'' screams to draw the attention of the creatures that killed his wife. * Helen O'Loy ("Helen O'Loy"), a metallic robot, with the assistance of a human, dissolves herself in acid. * Olya (The Adolescent), hanging. * Kokichi Oma (''Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony''), asks another character to crush him in a hydraulic press. * Number Four (Battlestar Galactica), Simon O'Neill, (''Battlestar Galactica: The Plan''), rigs an airlock outside of resurrection range, dying in space. * Angela Orosco (''Silent Hill 2''), unknown cause, though the last she was seen she was walking up a burning staircase. * Jacopo Ortis (''The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis''), stabs himself. * Ophelia (''Hamlet''), drowning (ambiguous). * John Osborne ('' On the Beach''), suicide pill. Julian Osborne, the same character in the On the Beach (1959 film), 1959 film, commits suicide via carbon monoxide poisoning. * Othello (character), Othello (''Othello''), stabs himself. * Owlman (comics), Owlman ('' Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths''), allows himself to be blown up by his own planet-destroying bomb.


P

* Walter Paisley (''A Bucket of Blood''), hangs himself after committing multiple murders. * Heinrich and Berta Palitz (''
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''), poison themselves shortly after Kristallnacht. * Henry L. Palmetto (''The Great Gatsby''), jumps in front of a subway train. * Pandora (''God of War III''), sacrifices herself to put out the Flame of Olympus, allowing Kratos (God of War), Kratos to open Pandora's box, her box. * Parone (''Saga (comics), Saga''), hangs himself. * Emir Parkreiner (''Killer7''), shoots himself after murdering the Killer7. * Gabriel Pasternak (''Wild Tales (film), Wild Tales''), rams an airplane into his parents' house. * The title character in "Paul's Case" jumps in front of a train. * Christine Penmark (''The Bad Seed''), shoots herself in the head. * Frank Pentangeli (''The Godfather Part II''), slits his wrists. * Stacker Pentecost (''
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'') detonates a bomb inside the ''Striker Eureka'' in a
suicide attack A suicide attack is any violent Strike (attack), attack, usually entailing the attacker detonating an explosive, where the attacker has suicide, accepted their own death as a direct result of the attacking method used. Suicide attacks have oc ...
. * Neil Perry (''Dead Poets Society''), shoots himself. * Petunia (''Happy Tree Friends''), skins herself with a potato peeler. * Phoenix Force (comics), Phoenix I, in the form of Jean Grey (''Uncanny X-Men''), telekinetically activates an energy cannon that disintegrates her. * Piccolo (Dragon Ball), Piccolo (''Dragon Ball''), takes one of Nappa's attacks to protect Gohan. * Yvette Gessard-Picard (''Star Trek: Picard''), hanged herself in the Sunroom, solarium. Her son Jean-Luc Picard, Jean-Luc discovered her body, and blamed himself for her death for decades afterward. * Eugene Pontecorvo (''The Sopranos''), hangs himself after being denied the chance to move to Florida by both Tony Soprano and the FBI. * Edna Pontellier (''The Awakening (Chopin novel), The Awakening''), drowns herself in the Gulf of Mexico. * Frederick Pope (''The Red Violin''), poisoning or drowning. * Porcia Catonis, Portia (''Julius Caesar (play), Julius Caesar''), "swallows fire". * Predator (alien), Predator (''Predator (film), Predator''), blows itself up in an attempt to finish Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer. * Titus Price (''Anna of the Five Towns'') hangs himself. * Margaret Prior (''Affinity (novel), Affinity''), drowns. * Scott Pritchard (''No Way Out (1987 film), No Way Out'') shoots himself. * The Protagonist (Persona 3), Protagonist (''Persona 3'') expends all of their life energy to seal away Nyx and prevent her from destroying humanity. * Adrian Doyle Pryce (''Oldboy (2013 film), Oldboy''), shoots himself. * Arthur Pryce (''Oldboy (2013 film), Oldboy''), unspecified. * Lane Pryce (''Mad Men''), hangs himself. * Madelyne Pryor (''X-Men''), mentally commits suicide by forcing her mind to shut down. * Two Pyramid Heads (''Silent Hill 2''), both stab themselves in the head with giant spears. * Pyramus (''Pyramus and Thisbe'') falls on his sword.


Q

* Rose Quartz (''Steven Universe''), chooses to get pregnant with and give birth to Steven Universe (character), Steven, knowing doing so will kill her. * Quasimodo (''The Hunchback of Notre-Dame''), starves himself to death in the Gibbet of Montfaucon while clutching Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), Esmeralda's corpse. * Quicksilver (comics), Quicksilver (''Avengers: Age of Ultron''), shields Clint Barton (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Hawkeye and a child from gunfire using his own body.


R

* Admiral Shala'Raan vas Tonbay (''
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''), self-inflicted gunshot. * Niall Rafferty (''Hollyoaks''), throws himself off a cliff. * Daisy Randone (''Girl, Interrupted''), method is unknown in the Girl, Interrupted, novel while in the Girl, Interrupted (film), movie, she hangs herself and cuts her wrists. * Ill Ratt (''
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''), real name Carl Darlingbin, shoots himself in the head. * Edgardo Ravenswood (''Lucia di Lammermoor''), stabs himself. * Susan Rawling (''Doris Lessing#List of works, To Room Nineteen''), gasses herself. * Red (''Red Hot Riding Hood''), nicknamed ''Wolf'', shoots himself with two guns. * Simone Renoir (''The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice''), a vampire, chooses to see one last sunrise. * Denholm Reynholm (''The IT Crowd''), jumps out of a window. * Maximilien Riccetti ('' Life: A User's Manual''), hangs himself. * Richard (''Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel), Go Tell It on the Mountain''), slits his wrists. * John Richter (''Guttersnipe''), suicide by cop. * Ethan Rickover (''Monk (TV series), Monk'') shoots himself in the head after it is revealed that he killed three people including Adrian Monk's wife. * Ty Riggs (''The Last Time We Say Goodbye''), shoots himself. * Ellen Ripley (''Alien 3''), throws herself into a blast furnace and a Queen Chestburster emerges from her chest. * Brig.-Gen. Jack D. Ripper (''
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''), shoots himself. * Risa's father (''
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''), method unknown. * First RoboCop 2 Prototype (''RoboCop 2''), shoots himself in the head. * Second RoboCop 2 Prototype (''RoboCop 2''), pulls off its helmet, severing its own life support. * Rodolfo (''Luisa Miller''), poisons himself after poisoning Luisa. * Natasha Romanoff (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Natasha Romanoff (''Avengers: Endgame''), also known as Black Widow, sacrifices herself for the Infinity Stones, Soul Stone. * Fedora Romazoff (''Fedora (opera), Fedora''), poisons herself. * Romulan commander (''
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''), intentionally blows up his own ship. * Rosemary (''The Giver''), poisons herself. * Carolyn Baker Rossi (''Criminal Minds''), fatal overdose of pills. * Sol Roth (''Soylent Green''), ingests poison. * Administer Rubio (''Arknights''), shoots himself. * Crossbones (comics), Brock Rumlow (''Captain America: Civil War''), vest explosion. * Andrew Ryan (BioShock), Andrew Ryan (''BioShock''), orders Jack to kill him. * Bernard Ryder or Mr. Blue (''The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three''), electrocutes himself. Suicide by cop in the 1998 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1998 film), film. He tempts New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber to shoot him in the 2009 The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009 film), film. * Ryoma (''
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: Conquest''), seppuku. * Ryu's Sister (''Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance''), slits her wrists while in her bathtub.


S

* Sabriya (''Ulfat Idilbi#Damascus - the Smile of Sadness, Damascus – the Smile of Sadness''), hangs herself from a lemon tree. * Michiru Saiki (''ReLIFE''), hangs herself. * Jeremiah de Saint-Amour (''Love in the Time of Cholera''), method unspecified. * Yuko Sakaki (''Battle Royale (novel), Battle Royale''), jumps from a lighthouse. * Hector Salamanca (''Breaking Bad''), bombs himself in a successful attempt to kill Gus Fring. * Stefan Salvatore (''The Vampire Diaries''), burns in hell fire. * Sang-hyun (''Thirst (2009 film), Thirst''), a vampire, exposes himself to the sun. * Esther Sanson (''Green for Danger (film), Green for Danger''), swallows a lethal dose of pills. * Gen. Alexei Sarov (''Skeleton Key (novel), Skeleton Key''), shoots himself. * Campbell Saunders (''Degrassi: The Next Generation, Degrassi''), methods unknown. * Louise Sawyer (''
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''), drives off a Grand Canyon cliff. * Sayoko ("First Person Singular (short story collection)#"With the Beatles", With the Beatles"), hangs herself. * Sayori (''Doki Doki Literature Club!''), hangs herself in her room. * Hanna Schmitz (''The Reader''), method unknown. * Peter Schuler (''Breaking Bad''), electrocutes himself. * Schwarz (Sebastian) injects himself with a poison. * Rufus Scott (''Another Country (novel), Another Country''), jumps from the George Washington Bridge. * Diane Selwyn (''Mulholland Drive (film), Mulholland Drive''), shotgun to head. * Sensei (''
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''), method unclear. * Senta (''The Flying Dutchman (opera), The Flying Dutchman''), throws herself into the sea. * Sailor Moon (character), Princess Serenity (''Sailor Moon''), stabs herself. * Daisuke Serizawa (''Godzilla (1954 film), Godzilla''), dies of asphyxiation after cutting off his air support in the ocean. * Shadow (''Final Fantasy VI''), leaves party to remain on Kefka's Tower during its collapse. * Maj. Kendra Shaw (''Battlestar Galactica: Razor''), manually detonates a nuclear device in a
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. * Raymond Shaw (''The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film), The Manchurian Candidate''), shoots himself in the 1962 film, while it is left unclear how he dies in the novel. * Dr. Sheppard (''The Murder of Roger Ackroyd''), poison. * Taeko Shimabara (''Noriko's Dinner Table''), method unknown. * Mr. Shimerda (''My Ántonia''), unspecified. * Shin (''Fist of the North Star''), jumps from the peak of his tower. * Taariq Shirazi (''The Bridge (Scandinavian TV series), The Bridge'') shoots himself in the mouth. * Shouan (''Sword of the Stranger''), hangs himself. * Shun (''Children Who Chase Lost Voices''), jumps from a ledge. * Shura (''Day of the Daleks''), suicide bombing. * Christa-Maria Sieland (''
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''), runs in front of a moving truck. * Ira Silverstein (''Harlan Coben, The Woods''), gunshot in the mouth. * David Sinclair (''Permanent Record (film), Permanent Record''), jumps off a cliff. * Sindel (''Mortal Kombat''), method unclear. * John Singer (''The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter''), shoots himself. * Hareli-Frodlin-Sirinial (''Animorphs #18, The Decision (novel), The Decision''), initiates the self-destruct sequence of the ''Ascalin'', killing himself and every other Andalite aboard. * Sitka (''Brother Bear''), sacrifices himself to save his younger brothers Denahi and Kenai from a bear. * Ethel Skinner (''
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''), assisted suicide by drug overdose. *
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('' Star Wars: The Last Jedi''), expends all of his energy to create a Force projection to confront his nephew
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and dies shortly afterwards from overexertion. * Mimi Slocumb (''Igby Goes Down''), colludes with her son Ollie to feed her poisonous yogurt. * Smerdyakov (''The Brothers Karamazov''), hanging. * Septimus Warren Smith (''Mrs Dalloway''), jumps out of a window. * Dr. Ward Smith (''Stranger in a Strange Land''), slits his throat with a scalpel. * Snow White (''
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''), stabs herself with an icicle. * Ben Solo ('' Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker''), sacrifices himself by resurrecting Rey (Star Wars), Rey through the Force, draining his own life force in the process. * Sorais (''Allan Quatermain (novel), Allan Quatermain''), stabs herself. * Alex Stafford (''Redeeming Love (2022 film), Redeeming Love''), gunshot after realizing the prostitute he had sex with was his daughter. * Ace Stamper (''Splendor in the Grass''), jumps out of a window. * Harry Stamper (''Armageddon (1998 film), Armageddon''), takes A.J.'s place in detonating the bomb to obliterate the asteroid headed for Earth, dying in the blast. * Tony Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Tony Stark (''Avengers: Endgame''), uses the Infinity Stones to kill Thanos and his army, and is subsequently killed by their power. * Nikolai Vsevolovich Stavrogin (''Demons (Dostoevsky novel), Demons''), hanging. * Molly Stearns (''The Ides of March (2011 film), The Ides of March''), possibly overdoses on pills. * Grace Stewart (''The Others (2001 film), The Others''), shoots herself. * Moritz Stiefel (''Spring Awakening (play), Spring Awakening''), shoots himself. * "Junior" Stillo (''The Last House on the Left (1972 film), The Last House on the Left''), shoots himself in the head with a handgun. * Straits/Straizo (''Battle Tendency''), channels Hamon into his body. * Trevor Strathmore (''Digital Fortress''), explosion. * Gordon Stretton (May Day) shoots himself. * Sue-Shaun (''The Farm (Battlestar Galactica), Battlestar Galactica''), tells Kara Thrace, Starbuck to destroy her life support machine rather than try to save her. * Suldrun (''Lyonesse (novel), Lyonesse''), hangs herself. * Holly Summers (''No More Heroes (video game), No More Heroes''), places a grenade in her mouth. * James Sunderland (''Silent Hill 2''), drowns himself by driving off a cliff and into a lake in the In Water ending. * Sunny (''Omori (video game), Omori''), can stab himself with a knife or jump off of a rooftop depending on the ending. * Svidrigailov (''Crime and Punishment''), gunshot to the head. * Cynthia Swann (''The First Wives Club''), throws herself off her apartment balcony. * Sylvester the Cat, Sylvester (''Scaredy Cat''), shoots himself with a gun.


T

* Terminator (character), T-800 Terminator (Model 101) (''Terminator 2: Judgment Day''), lowered into a pit of molten steel by John Connor on his own orders, since he cannot self-terminate. * Terminator (character), T-850 Terminator (''Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines''), self-destructs by detonating his nuclear cell to destroy the T-X. * Suzze T (''Live Wire (novel), Live Wire''), heroin overdose. * Kiyomi Takada (''
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''), self-immolation. * Takumi (''
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: Conquest''), jumps off a rampart. * Tanida (''Letters from Iwo Jima''), blows himself up with a grenade. * Claude Tanner (''Degrassi High''), shoots himself in the head. * Gen. Wilhelm Tanz (''The Night of the Generals''), shoots himself. * Tarantula (Marvel Comics), Tarantula I (''
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''), jumps to his death. * Tarrlok (''
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''), commits a fratricidal murder-suicide as a means of atoning for the innumerably abysmal transgressions he and his brother Noatak/Amon committed during their respective earthly sojourns. * Tasha (''Gargoyles (comics), Gargoyles: Bad Guys)'', hangs herself. * Yousuke Tateishi (''Death Parade''), defenestration. * Bob Taylor (''Prisoners (2013 film), Prisoners''), gunshot in the mouth. * Clark Terrell (''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan'') disintegrates himself with his own List of weapons in Star Trek#Energy weapons, phaser when he cannot otherwise resist the creature controlling him after Khan orders him to kill a fellow Starfleet officer. * Thanos (''Thanos: The Infinity Relativity''), decapitates himself. * Rob Thatcher (''The Bill (TV series), The Bill''),
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after shooting Irene Radford, his father's killer. * Eddie Thawne (''The Flash (2014 TV series), The Flash''), shoots himself. * Thee (''Ladda Land''), shoots himself. * Éponine, Éponine Thenardier (''
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''), takes a musket ball for Marius Pontmercy. * Thisbe (''Pyramus and Thisbe''), stabs herself with Pyramus' sword. * Tim "Ben" Thomas (''Seven Pounds''), releases a box jellyfish inside a tub of water with him inside, succumbing to the stinging wounds. * Harlan Thrombey (''Knives Out (film), Knives Out''), slits his own throat. * Tien Shinhan (''Dragon Ball''), uses up all of his energy in a
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on Nappa. * Mike Timlin (''Inside Llewyn Davis''), jumps off the George Washington Bridge. * Silene “Tokyo“ Oliveira (''Money Heist''), suicide bombing * Rogelio Torrez (''Machete (2010 film), Machete''), commits
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. * Floria Tosca (''
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''), jumps from Castel Sant'Angelo, Castle Sant'Angelo. * Col. Towers ("
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"), shoots himself. * Alfredo Traps (''A Dangerous Game (novel), A Dangerous Game''), hangs himself. * Evan Treborn (''The Butterfly Effect''), reverses time until pre-existence. (This scene only happens in the Director's cut, directors' cut) * Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplyov (''The Seagull''), shoots himself. * Steve Trevor (''
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''), shoots flammables in a back of an airplane, dying in the subsequent explosion. * Troglyte "disruptor" (''
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''), leaps to his death from high altitude. * Green Pickup Truck (''The Brave Little Toaster''), deliberately drives onto a car crusher's conveyor belt. * Bac Hoai Truong (''Andrew Lam#Publications, Birds of Paradise Lost''), self-immolation. * Túrin Turambar (''
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'') casts himself onto his sword. * Col. Turner (''Where Eagles Dare''), jumps out of a moving airplane. * Diane Turner (''Criminal Minds''), Murder–suicide, kills both herself and Maeve Donovan with a single gunshot. * Jojo Turrie (''Homefront (2013 film), Homefront''), suicide by cop. * Sam Tyler (Life on Mars (UK TV series), the British version of ''Life on Mars''), jumps off the roof of Manchester police headquarters. * The Thirteen ("
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") sacrifice themselves to the yielding in order to destroy Erawan's witch towers to help defend Orynth. Manon Blackbeak-Crochan is devastated with the deaths of the Thirteen.


U

* Yondu, Yondu Udonta (''Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2),'' takes off his spacesuit in outer space and gives it to Star-Lord, Peter Quill, causing him to suffocate. * Ugolin (''Manon des Sources (1986 film), Manon of the Spring''), hangs himself. * Kosetsu Urabe (''
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''), causes an explosion by stabbing a nearby enemy Knightmare with his own Knightmare sword. * Stanley Uris (''It (novel), It''), slits his wrists, writing "IT" on the wall with his own blood.


V

* Jerome Valeska (''Gotham (TV series), Gotham''), chooses to fall to his death from a metal pole when Jim Gordon (Gotham), Jim Gordon refuses to rescue him. * Sibyl Vane (''The Picture of Dorian Gray''), drinks poison. * Nacho Varga (''
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''), shoots himself in the head. * Various (''Mortal Kombat: Deception''), method varies from character to character. * Jenette Vasquez (''
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''), activates a grenade, killing herself. * Vegeta (''Dragon Ball Z),'' destroys himself with a suicide attack in an attempt to kill Majin Buu. * Shane Vendrell (''The Shield''), self-inflicted gunshot to the head. * Carlo Ventresca (''Angels & Demons''), known as Patrick McKenna in the Angels & Demons (film), film adaptation, self-immolation. * Winnie Verloc (''The Secret Agent''), drowns herself in the English Channel. *Jordy Verrill (''Creepshow'' and Weeds (short story), ''Weeds'', shoots himself in the head with his shotgun after being overcome by alien vegetation. * Eustacia Vye (''The Return of the Native''), drowning (possible suicide).


W

* Toby Jay Wadenah (''The Pledge (film), The Pledge''), shoots himself in the head. * Dave Walker (''Attack of the Giant Leeches''), hangs himself in jail. * Molly Walker (''Heroes (U.S. TV series), Heroes''), shoots herself. * Wally (''La Wally''), leaps off a precipice. * "Walter" (''Get Out''), shoots himself in the head. * Dr. Wanless (''Firestarter (novel), Firestarter'') puts on his wife's underwear and puts his arm down the garbage disposal, eventually bleeding to death (in Firestarter (1984 film), the film adaptation, this is not shown, merely described). * Justice Lawrence Wargrave (''
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''), self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. * President Earl Warren (''Colonization: Aftershocks''), kills himself after deciding to allow Indianapolis to be bombed. * Wiktor Warski (''
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''), overdoses on pills. * Yukio Washimine (''Black Lagoon''), pierces her own throat with Ginji's sword. * Harry Waters (''
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''), shoots himself in the head. * Sarah Waybourne (''Picnic at Hanging Rock (novel), Picnic at Hanging Rock'', the novel and all adaptations that include her) jumps out a window. * List of Coronation Street characters (1998)#Alison Webster, Alison Webster (
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), throws herself in front of a passing truck. * Krystal Weedon (''The Casual Vacancy''), intentional overdose of heroin. * Werther (''The Sorrows of Young Werther'') and (''Werther''), gunshot to the head; the fictional suicide touched off a wave of copycat suicides in Europe. * Mr. White (''Spectre (2015 film), Spectre''), shoots himself in the head. * C.B. Whiting (''Empire Falls''), shoots himself in the head. * Montgomery Wick (''
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''), cuts the rope suspending him, falling to his death. * Eli Wickner (''
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''), shoots himself. * Wienis (''Foundation (Asimov novel), Foundation''), shoots himself with an atomic blaster. * Campbell Williams (''Cold Sassy Tree''), shoots himself. * Sasha Williams (The Walking Dead), Sasha Williams ('' The Walking Dead''), ingests cyanide. * William 'Bill' Willoughby (''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri''), shoots himself. * George Wilson (''The Great Gatsby''), shoots himself. * Donna Windsor (''
Emmerdale ''Emmerdale'' (known as ''Emmerdale Farm'' until 1989) is a British soap opera that is broadcast on ITV1. The show is set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, '' ...
''), jumps from the top of a multi-storey car park. * Dallas "Dally" Winston (''The Outsiders (novel), The Outsiders''),
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after robbing a grocery store. * Mr. Wishnow (''The Plot Against America''), hangs himself. * List of The Adventures of Tintin characters#Frank Wolff, Frank Wolff (''Explorers on the Moon''), throws himself into space. * Sid Worley (''An Officer and a Gentleman''), hangs himself. * May Wright (''
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''), fills a room with gas and lights a cigarette, causing an explosion.


X

* Professor X (''Age of Apocalypse''), takes a psi-knife from Legion (Marvel Comics), Legion to save Magneto (Marvel Comics), Magneto. * Xander (''Fire Emblem Fates, Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright''),
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. * Xiaodouzi ('' Farewell My Concubine''), real name Cheng Dieyi, stabs himself with a sword.


Y

* Lord Yabu (''Shōgun (1980 miniseries), Shōgun''), commits
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to atone for a ninja attack and a murder. * Yoshimi Yahagi ('' Battle Royale''), in the film, hangs herself alongside Yuji Kuramuto. * Mrs. Yamada (''No-No Boy''), drowns herself in a tub. * Kazuhiko Yamamoto (''Battle Royale (novel), Battle Royale''), throws himself off a cliff alongside Sakura Ogawa. * Gisele Yashar (''Fast & Furious 6''), while trying to get back onto a car harpooned to the wing of a plane trying to take off, lets go of Han Lue's hand to shoot an oncoming thug and save him, falling to her death in a
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. * Haruki Yasutani (''A Tale for the Time Being''), Kamikaze. * Adam Yates (''Harlan Coben, The Innocent''), gunshot. * Deanna Yeller (''Harlan Coben, Drop Shot''), gunshot in the head.Drop Shot: Chapter 47
/ref> * Yin Susu (''The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber''), stabs herself. * Shinya Yokoyama (''Unnatural_(TV_series), Unnatural''), falls onto knives in an attempt to frame school bullies of his supposed murder. * Chisa Yomoda (''Serial Experiments Lain''), jumps off of a building. * Goro Yoshida (''The Man with the Red Tattoo''),
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. * Saki Yoshida (''Metamorphosis (manga), Metamorphosis''), overdoses on heroin. * Alaska Young (''Looking for Alaska''), drives straight into a police car while drunk; it is debated whether it was a suicide or not. * Mary Alice Young (''Desperate Housewives''), gunshot to the head; the suicide enables the character to portray the role of narrator of the series from a dead point of view. * List of The Bill characters (Q–Z)#Phil Young, Phil Young (''
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''), feeds exhaust fumes into his car. * Yuan Yang (''Dream of the Red Chamber''), hangs herself to fight against arranged marriage. * Princess Yue (''Avatar: The Last Airbender''), sacrifices her life to revive Tui the Moon Spirit. * Yuma (''List of Saga story arcs#Volume Five, Saga''), self-immolation. * Yuri (''Doki Doki Literature Club!''), stabs herself.


Z

* Z-one (''Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds''), sacrifices himself to stop the Divine Temple from destroying New Domino City by ramming himself into the Divine Temple's reactor. * Louis Zabel (''Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps'') jumps in front of a subway train. * Zane (''Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu''), sacrifices himself to stop and defeat The Overlord. * Sophie Zawistowska (''
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''), ingests sodium cyanide along with her lover. * Gordon Zellanby (''The Midwich Cuckoos''), suicide bombing. * Zerkow (''Greed (1924 film), Greed''), jumps into the San Francisco Bay. * Zhu Yingtai (''Butterfly Lovers''), jumps into Liang Shanbo's tomb. * Zia (''Wristcutters: A Love Story''), slits his wrists. * Bertrand Zobrist (''Inferno (Brown novel), Inferno''), jumps to his death from Badia Fiorentina. * Zog (''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''), sacrifices himself by jumping into a blazing fire with Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Shredder. * Tali'Zorah, Tali'Zorah vas Normandy (''
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''), jumps off a cliff.


See also

*List of suicide crisis lines *List of suicides


References

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