History Main / InterruptedSuicide

* The Singaporean drama film, ''Film/INotStupid'', have Kwok Pin, one of the three elementary-school-age main leads, deciding to jump off an apartment building the night after learning he failed his exam, but just as he's [[BarefootSuicide removing his shoes]] and about to climb over a balcony, a bunch of policemen pursuing some teen drug addicts hiding in the same floor accidentally runs into Kwok Pin, and he gets arrested alongside all the druggies. Leading to this rather awkward exchange between Kwok Pin and one of the policemen.
--> '''Kwok Pin''': Sir, I swear I'm not with the drug dealers!\\
'''Policeman''': Then what are you doing alone at this time of the night, kid?\\
'''Kwok Pin''': ...trying to kill myself, sir.

* ''Film/Interceptor2022''. A flashback scene shows the heroine reported her commanding officer for sexual harassment and became the subject of a sustained hate campaign. After finding her house had been vandalised and sexist threats painted all over the walls, she tries to [[BathSuicide drown herself in the bath]] only to be rescued by her retired veteran father who encourages her to keep fighting. This scene shows her affection for her father right before the BigBad reveals that [[IHaveYourWife he's sent men to take her father hostage]].

* ''Manga/BungouStrayDogs'': Dazai loves suicide, and so his gimmick was to do this (normally getting interrupted by Kunikida or Atsushi) but later he changed his mind - now he wants a lovers' suicide with a beautiful woman, except of course he lacks a woman who's willing to go through with it.

** Sano does this a few times but usually he's saying, [[JerkWithAHeartofGold "If you're going to kill yourself, do it when I'm not around!"]]

* In an issue of ''[[ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2000}} Batgirl]]'', Cassandra Cain is contemplating her own depression and death wish from on top of a building when she encounters a man who is also looking depressedly out at the city. Apropos of seemingly nothing, Cass declares "Don't do it. Not worth it." Not being aware of her near-superhuman ability to read body language, he is startled enough to leave the rooftop without attempting to jump.

* Somewhat [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in Avengers Annual issue 10 when ''ComicBook/{{Spider Woman}}'' saves a woman who jumped off the golden gate bridge, only to find out later that it was a {{Psychic Assisted Suicide}}.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in the Literature/{{Worm}} × VideoGame/{{Dishonored}} crossover fanfic ''Fanfic/AChangeOfPace''. Glory Girl thought Taylor was throwing herself off a building to kill herself because she wasn't in costume, but in truth, she was testing her teleportation powers. They decide to team up afterwards and fight crime.

* [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Robin]] has hanged himself after having a HeroicBSOD [[spoiler:for failing to save Emmeryn]] before Frederick intervenes and cuts the noose in ''FanFic/{{Pretender}}'' when the latter stumbles on him.

* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'':
** Katniss, [[spoiler:courtesy of Peeta.]]
** A second one in ''Mockingjay'', with [[spoiler:Plutarch]] getting her off the hook for [[spoiler:killing President Coin.]]

* In Creator/CherryWilder's short story "Point of Departure", a side story to the Literature/{{Torin}} series, a group of people make a suicide pact in despair over and protest against the direction their society is going. Just as they're about to carry it out, a friend arrives with news of the events in the main plotline of the series, and they realize there's still hope for the future and a role for them in it. [[spoiler:One member of the pact, who is old and in ill health, dies anyway.]]

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Tywin breaking the door in "[[{{Recap/GameOfThronesS2E9Blackwater}} Blackwater]]" stops Cersei from proceeding in suicide with her son Tommen, because she was convinced the city would fall to the unflappable Stannis.

* The ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "[[{{Recap/TorchwoodS2E8ADayInTheDeath}} A Day in the Death]]" features Dr. Owen Harper telling the story of the past few days to a young woman while trying to talk her out of killing herself. "The past few days" happen to include [[spoiler: Owen coming to terms with his undeath]].

*** In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E19HardTime}} Hard Time]]", O'Brien nearly kills himself after being given false memories of a twenty-year prison sentence in which he killed his imaginary cellmate. Bashir intervenes, convincing him that he is still a good man.

*** Back when Worf was still chief of security on the ''Enterprise'', he tried to commit ritual suicide with a Klingon dagger in his quarters, as he was afraid he was losing his mind and preferred death to dishonor. Luckily, Troi had noticed Worf suddenly leaving the Bridge and followed him to his quarters where she talked him out of it. ("[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E17NightTerrors}} Night Terrors]]").
*** Yet another time on Worf (AGAIN!). In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E16Ethics}} Ethics]]" he has been injured in an accident that leaves him paralyzed and wants Riker's help in committing ritual suicide as Klingons consider it dishonorable to live crippled. (One wonders whether word of this conversation ever got back to Geordi [=LaForge=], the ship's blind chief engineer.) Riker refuses to help, reminding Worf of all of the friends they watched die and how they fought all the way, and that Klingon tradition demands that Worf's son Alexander strike the fatal blow. Worf agrees to try a risky surgery instead. He got better.

** In "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E11Doomed}} Doomed]]", Spike is about to fling himself onto a stake in Xander's basement when Xander and Willow stop him, leading to some very pithy Whedon dialogue. Specifically, Spike was wearing a shirt he borrowed from Xander, and Xander didn't want Spike to ruin it by dusting himself.
** In "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E10Amends}} Amends]]" Buffy talks Angel out of killing himself (with some help from a DeusExMachina).

--> '''Beck:''' [[spoiler:I raped you. I'm so sorry. ''({{beat}}, then he jumps)'']]

* In the new show ''FlashForward'', [[spoiler: Bryce was about to commit suicide when he (and the rest of the world) blacked out. He considers the visions of the future he got a gift that stops him from trying again.]]

* In ''Theatre/{{Heathers}}'', after Heather M receives an unjustified {{Reason You Suck Speech}} from the entire school for simply having suicidal thoughts in "Shine A Light (Reprise)", she very nearly offs herself via pills. However, Veronica thankfully saves her at the last minute and convinces her that it's not worth ending her life over. They share a much-needed hug at the end.

** Parodied in ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories''; after losing against the heroes, HighlyVisibleNinja Yukimaru decides to perform suicide to atone for her failure...and just freezes up. It takes the gang time to realize that deep down, she doesn't really want to die, and Adell resigns himself to talking her out of it. This becomes a {{RunningGag}}.

* In ''Videogame/BlackKnightSword'', the player character is about to hang himself when he is drawn into the story and becomes the Black Knight. [[spoiler:In the True Ending, he returns to finish it.]]

* An unfortunate example in ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo'' occurs during a bad end when Reiji successfully stops [[spoiler:Orihime]] from killing herself, but then they're both attacked by the serial killer and killed. The suicidal person is killed quite gruesomely and you can't help but feel it probably would have been better if she had succeeded.

* In ''WebComic/DocRat'', Flopsy Jaegermond [[https://crosstimecafe.com/speedreader/doc_rat.html#1307 tried to jump off a cliff]] during a weekend getaway with Ben and some friends out of guilt for having hunted and eaten his wife Jazmyn's previous husband. Ben stopped him, and the two ended up tumbling down the sloped side of the mountain, fighting the whole way down. Ben was ultimately able to talk him down.

* ''Roleplay/ArchipelagoExodus''' EmotionlessGirl Rie Nepas tries to kill herself after the death of her [[HeterosexualLifePartners Heterosexual Life Partner]]. She [[BurialInSpace rigs his ashes to a rocket]] and quietly stands inside the blast radius, only to be rescued by her on-again-off-again friend Natalie.

* Another urban legend (one that's ridiculous since it's the type that no one could possibly know about if it really had happened): A man's business is about to go under or something, and his last hope is a phone call that's supposed to come by five o'clock and will tell him he's not bankrupt after all. Five o'clock comes and goes, and no phone call, so he goes up to the roof and jumps off... [[{{Narm}} and as he passes his own window, the phone is ringing]].

* ''Totally Completely Fine'': The plot of this series consists of a woman named Vivian inheriting a house from
her grandfather. It turns out that the house is by a cliff which is a common suicide site, and thus, Vivian needs to regularly talk people out of jumping to their deaths.

* ''Film/{{Interceptor}}''. A flashback scene shows the heroine reported her commanding officer for sexual harassment and became the subject of a sustained hate campaign. After finding her house had been vandalised and sexist threats painted all over the walls, she tries to [[BathSuicide drown herself in the bath]] only to be rescued by her retired veteran father who encourages her to keep fighting. This scene shows her affection for her father right before the BigBad reveals that [[IHaveYourWife he's sent men to take her father hostage]].

* The pre-title sequence of ''Film/{{Lou}}'' has the title character preparing to commit suicide. As she's sitting with a rifle under her chin, we flashback a few hours showing the kidnapping of her neighbour's daughter that interrupts her suicide attempt when the mother bursts in on her wanting to use the phone to call the sheriff.

Compare BungledSuicide, where the suicidee succeeds in carrying out the deed...but doesn't die. Compare HappilyFailedSuicide, where the suicidee is ''happy'' that they failed or were interrupted. Contrast with MistakenForSuicidal, where a character believes they're saving someone but in reality, the "suicidee" wasn't actually suicidal.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10270643/1/My-Time-Of-Dying My Time Of Dying]]'' starts with Scourge's attempted suicide, and Sonic stops him. Scourge behaves suicidally several times during the fanfic.
* ''Fanfic/TheChildOfLove'': In chapter 5 [[spoiler:Asuka tried to kill herself with a bottle of sleeping pills. Shinji found her and called Misato, and Asuka was hospitalized.]] As the meds were keeping her alive, [[spoiler:her daughter telepathically]] talked to her to ensure that she did not GoIntoTheLight.

* ''Manga/{{Evangelion 303}}'': In chapter 12 [[spoiler:Asuka]] tried to commit suicide. However, Shinji found her JustInTime and managed to stop her. [[spoiler:Subverted since, even though she had decided to kill herself, she had spent the last five hours unable to go through with it. In fact, her choice of words in her suicide note (specifically, ending it with "auf wiedersehen", which means "until we meet again") suggested that she wanted him to stop her. [[DoubleSubversion But she might have eventually shot herself if he had not shown up or if he left]].]]

* ''Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs'': After [[spoiler:running away, Asuka lay down on a tube and slit her wrists.]] However several Section-2 agents found her in time to save her life.
* In ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'', Ebony is in the process of slitting her wrists over [[spoiler: Draco]]'s death when "Snap" and "Loopin" peep on her.

* [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Robin]] has hanged himself after having a HeroicBSOD [[spoiler: for failing to save Emmeryn]] before Frederick intervenes and cuts the noose in ''FanFic/{{Pretender}}'' when the latter stumbles on him.
* ''FanFic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness'':

** In Act III chapter 1, upon discovering that Tsukune's [[SuperpoweredEvilSide inner ghoul]] had exploited her newfound feelings for Tsukune to dupe her into completing the transfusion and giving it enough power to [[SplitPersonalityTakeover take over Tsukune's body completely]], Kokoa is so devastated by and ashamed of her mistake and letting [[LoveMakesYouDumb her feelings for Tsukune blind her to the ghoul's manipulations]] that she tries to jump into the ocean, only to be saved by Gin, who talks some sense into her. After the ghoul is suppressed by the Holy Lock, Kokoa swears fealty to Tsukune in [[TheAtoner penance]].
* In ''Fanfic/TouhouIbunshu'', after landing in Gensokyo and losing the last Lunarian child [[spoiler: to Remilia]], Reisen is so full of hate and guilt that she tries to eat her gun. [[LittleMissConArtist Te]][[TheBarnum wi]], of all people, barely manages to hold her off until she's convinced not to go through with it. In the same series, when Youmu realizes she's been cruelly tricked [[spoiler: by Yukari]] to almost destroy Gensokyo on the pretense of helping Yuyuko, she almost kills herself until talked out of it by her master.
* In ''[[Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX Gensokyo 20XXIV]]'', we have this occur at a couple of instances. The first time is when Yukari is holding a razor blade, crying as she is contemplating ending her life (to, in her mind, appease the ghosts of those who've passed away) when Satori takes notice of this and convinces her otherwise. The second time Chen attempts to drown herself and she would have died otherwise if Yukari hadn't pulled her out and the others resuscitated her.
* [[Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaOccupationalHazards Twintails]] has a moment where, following the evacuation of his Stable [[spoiler: and [[HeroicSacrifice the death of his motherly figure Gamma Ray]],]] he very nearly empties a full clip of .303 rounds into his head. Minty is able to intervene mere moments before the trigger is pulled, and the automatic rifle discharges harmlessly into the air.
** [[Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaEmptyQuiver Crash Dive]] admits to being ready to throw herself off of a seaside cliff in her full heavy armor to end it all after her decade of suffering. Thankfully for her sake, the Valkyrie crash-lands just then.
* In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/964169/1/Destiny Destiny]] After [[Anime/DigimonTamers Juri’s]] father, stepmother, and half-brother all die in a car accident, her heavy depression from the deaths of Leomon and her biological mother returns in full force and she once again attempts to end her own suffering. Takato and Rika come to her rescue and bring her to the hospital just in time.

* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the Literature/{{Worm}} x Videogame/{{Dishonored}} crossover fanfic, ''Fanfic/AChangeOfPace''. Glory Girl thought Taylor was throwing herself off a building to kill herself because she wasn't in costume, but in truth, she was testing her teleportation powers. They decide to team up afterwards and fight crime.
* ''Fanfic/SplitSecondMyLittlePony's'' sequel, ''An Eternity Divided'' has Sparkle, the resident Death Goddess, able to feel the approaching death of a soul, including suicides. She scared a mare who was about to jump off a bridge out of killing herself.
* ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'': Filthy Rich started to become depressed because his wife Golden Tiara is in the insane asylum and he's slowly growing apart from his daughter Diamond Tiara. The last straw came when during the Day of Discord, he lost control and raped several copies of his wife. Overcome with guilt and shame, he attempted suicide repeatedly with various methods like hanging and overdosing. Every time, his servants (especially his maid Shiny Star, who was in love with him) stopped him, until he stopped trying and learned to appreciate his life.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/AsylumDaemonOfDecay'' Fluttershy has crippling social anxiety and is in an asylum. During Show And Tell one day, she was convinced to bring one of her birds. The bird was startled and a pony hit it in panic, causing the bird to die of its injuries. Fluttershy felt so terrible over the incident that she tried to kill herself, though she was caught before she bled out.
* At the beginning of ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'', Asuka was in a coma after having attempted to kill herself. She was found naked and severely malnourished in a bathtub full of filth by Section-2 agents. Her doctor said that she’d been starving and they had to put her under to keep her from hurting herself.
* The ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' fanfic ''Fanfic/DarknessBurning'' takes place in an AlternateUniverse where Elsa and Anna's parents didn't die. After reaching adulthood, Anna ended up married and moved to another kingdom, while Elsa stayed stuck in the same depressed state she was prior to her IAmBecomingSong. Elsa attempted suicide but was found by her parents. Afterwards, Anna came back to see her, and Elsa wasn't allowed to be alone for weeks. [[spoiler:After learning the reason for her sister's depression, Anna [[CallingTheOldManOut calls out her parents]] for causing it]].
* In ''[[https://pastebin.com/5xvRv7Ck A Dark House Inadequate]]'', Lincoln's second suicide attempt falls under this as his father is able to get him to the hospital in time, though it's stated to have been a near thing.
* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/5710513/chapters/13155583 Renegades]]'', while trying to restore Sara's soul Laurel is attacked by astral parasites who prey on her greatest insecurities/regrets. One of them reminds her of the (until now unknown) night she contemplated suicide and encourages her to finish the job. Oliver and Nyssa manage to reach her and convince her what she's seeing isn't real. Laurel later confirms it was a real memory and when she was contemplating it, she got a (very fortuitous) call from Thea, who missed her and wanted to have dinner together. This was enough to stop her, and the unsaid implication is that Thea has no idea what she was considering when she called.
* This is unintentionally done in chapter 14 of ''Fanfic/TheUtoniumTrials''. Mojo Jojo (who is also suffering from dementia) lives homeless in a junkyard after his lab is destroyed by a monster. After being defeated by the Powerpuff Girls and realizing that he's just a shadow of his former self, he tries to shoot himself. Buttercup mistakingly thinks Mojo's going to shoot her and so she attacks him first, inadvertently saving his life.
* After hitting her DespairEventHorizon in ''Fanfic/NowThatYoureBleeding'', Elsa tries to jump to her death. Marshmallow won't allow it and holds her back.
* ''Fanfic/ApprenticeAndPregnant'': [[spoiler:Ivypaw's]] mother [[spoiler:Applefur]] suffers from mental illness. If she doesn't eat her medicine daily, she starts hallucinating. When she was pregnant with her daughter she tried to drown herself and was narrowly helped by Swallow Star.
* In chapter 10 of ''[[Fanfic/TheirBond Lotus Jewel]]'', Queen Zelda ran away from the castle and attempted suicide. She cut herself with her sword but was saved when Impa found her before she could bleed out.
* ''Fanfic/{{Lost}}'':
** After her son seemingly dies in a shipwreck, Delia loses her will to live. Luckily, Professor Oak notices where her mind is going and takes away her bottle of tranquilizers.
** Professor Oak himself once tried to kill himself after his son and daughter-in-law both died in a car crash. He was saved by his assistant Spencer Hale.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/20899/1/Shattered-Soul Shattered Soul]]'' is a ''Pokémon'' one-shot where James tries to kill himself but is stopped by Jessie.

* ''Fanfic/RWBYScars'': [[spoiler:Weiss]] stabbed herself in the stomach but survived because her normally-distant mother decided to check up on her for once.

* ''Fanfic/LettingGoOfHate'' starts with Zira's death scene. She doesn't want to die, however, she refuses to take Kiara's paw. Zira ponders over her situation and wonders if she should just fall, now that her family has betrayed her and her only loyal child has died. Before Zira can lose her grip, Kiara helps her.
* ''Webcomic/ThePowerpuffGirlsReImagined'': Professor Utonium is stopped from [[AteHisGun shooting himself]] after [[MurderSuicide shooting his pet Jojo]] when the Powerpuff Girls are born.
* ''Fanfic/TheSevenMisfortunesOfLadyFortune'': Adrien almost slits his own throat after learning that Marinette, who was shot to death a few months ago, was actually Ladybug. Fortunately, Plagg tells him she's actually alive before he can.
* At the end of fernwithy's ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' story ''Fanfic/{{The End of the World|FernWithy}}'', [[ForegoneConclusion after the Capitol kills his girlfriend (on the heels of killing his mother and brother)]], between that, all the death he saw in the 2nd Quarter Quell [[ThisIsGonnaSuck and the life of mentoring ahead of him]], Haymitch is prepared to hang himself from an old tree that was once used as a gallows, when he hears screaming and sees a friend being whipped in the distance, in the town square. This snaps him out of it, and he sets the tree on fire instead, to make sure he isn't tempted again and to distract the peacekeepers from their whipping.
* In the third ''Fanfic/PokemonLightAU'' story, Leon's brother Hop stops him from stabbing himself.
* ''Fanfic/AnArmAndALeg'': Elsa didn't move out of the way of Hans' sword because she felt that she deserved to die. She's saved by Anna's attempt at a HeroicSacrifice.
* In Pokemon fanfic ''Fanfic/OlivineRomance'' Jasmine's life is thrown into chaos and despair. She's lost her Pokemon and her job, her love life lies in tatters, she's betrayed by everyone she trusted, is rejected by her own mother, and mentally breaks down after realizing her own monstrous fantasies. She goes to the bay bridge to throw herself off. There is no help coming. [[spoiler:She finds Ethan about to throw himself into the waves. The chance meeting saves them both.]]
* In ''Fanfic/CindersAndAshesTheChroniclesOfKamenRiderDante'', it's revealed that Hoshi attempted to do this and the only reason he didn't go through with it was that he was saved by a stranger.

* In ''Fanfic/MistakeSherlockHolmes'', a lookout Holmes forgot to check for scores a lucky shot, ending with Watson hitting the pavement and ending up in critical condition. After Lestrade arrives to take away the criminal, he turns to go, despite his misgivings about leaving Holmes alone. However, he sees Holmes eyeing the doctor's revolver and fortunately puts two and two together before he can leave. He storms back in, yelling at the detective not even to think about it. Luckily, Holmes listens.
* In '"Fanfic/AViciousVengefulSea'', Theon tries to kill himself on a livestream after [[SerialKiller Ramsay's]] trial, since he doesn't think he'll ever recover. Thankfully, Jeyne finds him unconscious and calls the hospital.

* In the season sixth premiere of ''Series/TheShield'', [[spoiler:upon learning that he killed his friend Lem over a misunderstanding, Shane is so guilt-ridden that he plans to [[AteHisGun stick his gun in his mouth]], only to be interrupted by the arrival of his fiancee and their child. Unfortunately, [[ForWantOfANail this ends up leading to more tragedies]]]].

* A comedic version appears in ''Film/{{Airplane}}''; Ted Striker drives two people to suicide with his stories about his ex-girlfriend, and a third is only saved at the last second when Striker gets called away mid-story. The third, who was about to light the gas he had covered himself in with a lighter when Striker was called away, put out his lighter and sighed in relief. Unfortunately, seconds later, he spontaneously combusted.

* In Alan Ayckbourn's ''Absurd Person Singular'', Eva spends the entirety of the second act attempting to kill herself in various ways, only to get interrupted each time. HilarityEnsues.

** In a very early GoldenAge ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comic, Superman saved the life of a man who jumped off a bridge. He turned out to be a former champion boxer whose career had fallen apart when his crooked agent drugged him so that he would lose a title bout. Superman then spent the rest of the issue helping the man win back his title (And getting Clark Kent a promotion for his articles predicting the boxer's comeback).