History Main / InterruptedSuicide

* Misa Amane in ''Manga/DeathNote''. [[spoiler: Tries to bite her tongue off because Rem won't kill her, but Watari gags her just before she can do it]].
** She [[spoiler:eventually kills herself - in the anime, via throwing herself off a building.]]

** There's another example in episode 4 when Madoka [[OhCrap comes across an entire group of brainwashed people.]]

* Played for Comedy in Georg Buchner's play ''LeonceAndLena'' - with a direct ShoutOut and/or TakeThat to ''Literature/TheSorrowsOfYoungWerther''.

* In the GilbertAndSullivan operetta ''TheMikado'', the protagonist Nanki-Poo is persuaded not to commit suicide by instead [[ItMakesSenseInContext volunteering to be executed in a month]].

* In ''{{Tsukihime}}'', Kohaku attempts to kill herself in the end of Hisui's route. [[spoiler:While she succeeds in the True Ending, in the Good Ending, Shiki manages to use his EvilEye to ''kill the poison inside her body'', saving her life.]]

* In Polish comedy ''Ewa Wants to Sleep'' (''Ewa chce spać'') the titular student Ewa arrived to the city too late in the evening to sign into a dorm and ended up spending the night on the street. When she was standing on the embankment, a policeman mistook her for a suicide and brought her to the station.
** Later she locked herself in the armory[[note]]Because an old prostitute mistook Ewa for a colleague and gave her a lot of advices, seriously scaring her[[/note]]. The quartermaster exclaimed "That armory has enough grenades for a whole regiment of suicides!" and started trying to persuade her that life is good. By reading some newspaper article about freaks, mutants and radiation. He quickly realized his mistake, though. His fears weren't quite baseless: while not a suicide, Ewa [[TooDumbToLive tried to hammer a sticking out shoe nail with a grenade]].

* ''DesperateHousewives'': Edie tries to set this up, waiting until right as Carlos got back to the house to hang herself so that he'd be able to save her. Then the ''"JustInTime" arrival'' gets interrupted, and she has to scramble to get herself to safety, as she never really intended to die.

* ''Glee'' had Karofsky's father interrupt his suicide after he hanged himself but before he died. There was a very devastating scene of him cradling his son crying after getting him down. Karofsky did survive.
* The Class opens with Richie standing at the sink with a handful of sleeping pills and a glass of water. The phone rings, and it's played for comedy as he decides to answer or not. He does and is invited to a party with his entire second grade class from 25 years ago.

* In ''Havana Bay'', one of the sequels to ''GorkyPark'', Inspector [[RussianGuySuffersMost Arkady Renko]] decides to commit suicide with a stolen syringe in Cuba after confirming that a body found in the harbor was an old friend of his[[note]]This being basically the end of a [[HumiliationConga string of particularly tragic misfortune for him]][[/note]]. However, it seems that [[SpannerInTheWorks his arrival in Cuba]] led some conspirators to believe that he was onto them, [[RevealingCoverUp so they sent an assassin after him]]. Who he reflexively kills with the stolen syringe, distracting him from his [[DeathSeeker death wish]] as he tries to find out ''why'' someone wanted to kill him.

* In {{Jiraishin}}, the protagonist interrupted a girl named Azusa as she was about to jump off a roof and told her that if she was going to commit suicide, jumping was rude and she should starve herself. She was going to jump anyway, but he grabbed her stopped her. Later, she went to prison and starved herself to death.

** And then in ''AllStarSuperman'':

* ''MassEffect3'':

* ''FairyTail'' has two examples, though they are both of the HeroicSacrifice variation: First, Gray tries to defeat Lyon in order to prevent Deliora's unsealing by using Iced Shell - an attack that turns the user into ice which then freezes the opponent eternally. Natsu stops him, saying that some things are not worth dying for. In another arc, the Tower of Heaven is collapsing and about to explode, and Erza sees no other way to save her friends (in order to make them have a "bright future", as she says) than trying to fuse herself with the so-called Etherion mass. Natsu distraughtly saves her in the last moment, shouting that if she wants to grant her friends a bright future, she should be ''with'' them, not ''die'' for them.

--->'''Tony''': Althea, what are you doing? The ship is sinking!//
'''Althea''': It doesn't matter for me.

'''Tony:''' Althea, what are you doing? The ship is sinking!
'''Althea:''' It doesn't matter for me.

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', an injured [[spoiler:Lan Fan]] tries to kill herself when [[spoiler:Ling is trying to escape from Wrath carrying her on his shoulder]]. We don't see it happen so we'll never know whose idea it was, but [[spoiler:she ends up severing her injured arm instead, so they can use it to lure Wrath away and save both their lives]]. [[spoiler:Ling]] still feels guilty about it.
** In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]], after killing Winry's parents, Colonel Mustang, in shock, put his gun under his chin. Tim Marcoh talked him down from it.

** Subverted in their video for "Benzin." In it, the keyboardist, Flake, plays a jumper, and the other band members, who are playing firemen, pull out a trampoline to catch Flake and stop him from killing himself. [[spoiler: Except just as the video was ending, the trampoline tarp tore apart. [[NightmareFuel And Flake had already jumped.]]]]

* The minor ''Film/RearWindow'' character Miss Lonelyhearts constantly fails to find a good boyfriend. Eventually, she decides to overdose on sodium trieckonal capsules. Fortunately, right before she can swallow them, a band in another apartment entrances her with some beautiful music. During the epilogue, we see Miss Lonelyhearts, alive and reinvigorated, visit the band's songwriter and tell him, "I can't tell you what this music has meant to me."

* The minor ''Film/RearWindow'' character Miss Lonelyhearts constantly fails to find a good boyfriend. Eventually, she decides to poison herself with some red pills. Fortunately, right before she can swallow them, a band in another apartment entrances her with some beautiful music. During the epilogue, we see Miss Lonelyhearts, alive and reinvigorated, visit the band's songwriter and tell him, "I can't tell you what this music has meant to me."