History Main / InterruptedSuicide

* In ''ComicBook/UnstoppableWasp'', [[spoiler:Priya chases after Nadia after her first manic episode causes the latter to kick G.I.R.L.'s collective asses and stops her before she jumped off the roof of her lab in depression and regret.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': Jayce was prepared to jump off the ledge of his destroyed lab after his TraumaCongaLine, but [[TalkingDownTheSuicidal Viktor talks him out of it]]. [[spoiler: Jayce unknowingly returns the favor to a despondent Viktor years later.]]

* This sort of happens in the pilot of ''The Time Tunnel''. Tony finds Althea Hall just sitting, waiting to go down with the Titanic because she feels she isn't worthy to take a place on a lifeboat due to the fact that she has a brain tumor and will die soon anyway. Tony is luckily able to talk her out of this before the ship goes down and he also manages to put her on a lifeboat.

* Subverted in Hasoda's ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime'', where the main character tries to jump out of her bedroom window but is stopped by her concerned little sister. The thing is, she wasn't trying to kill herself; she was trying to [[spoiler:time-leap, and hadn't quite figured out how to do it properly.]]

* ''Bouvard and Pecuchet'' by Creator/GustaveFlaubert sees the title characters attempt to commit suicide, only to interrupt ''each other'' when they realise that they haven't yet written their wills. Overlaps slightly with BungledSuicide.

* Happens ''twice'' (to different characters) in the Creator/AgathaChristie novel ''Towards Zero''.

* In ''Fanfic/CindersAndAshes/TheChroniclesOfKamenRiderDante'', 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.

* Casey from ''Film/MadLove1995'' ends up in a psychiatric hospital after she overdoses on sleeping pills and her parents find her unconscious in the bathtub. Her parents, who don't yet realize she's mentally ill, thinks she's doing it to get back at them for setting rules.

* The 2013 movie ''Night Train to Lisbon'' is about Gregorius, a bookish professor who interrupts a woman as she is attempting to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. Their chance encounter leads Gregorius to an unusual book.
* In ''Film/OfficeSpace'', the recently-laid-off Tom Smikowski tries to kill himself by sitting in a running car in his garage. His wife walks in, and he "finds the will to live" (as explained by another character; I've always thought he was just too embarrassed at being caught), so he pretends he was on his way to the store and backs out onto the street. Where he is promptly T-boned by a fast-moving car, which lands him with multiple broken bones and with a "huge settlement," which makes him far happier than he ever was before.

* This kicks off the film ''Apres-Vous''.

[[caption-width-right:319:''"But on this night, no one was forgotten...least of all by those who had promised to save others from despair."'']]

* Nanette in the second season of ''Manga/VictorianRomanceEmma'': after being discovered to have stolen a fan from the mistress of the house and being fired as a result, she dashes out to drink something lethal and is stopped by Emma. Later in the same season, there is a slight subversion, Emma is contemplating the sea and walking toward it leading Hans to assume that she is about to kill herself which was not the case.

* In a real-life example of ComedicSociopathy, a suicidal Chinese man was [[http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/05/23/suicidal-man-pushed-bridge-onlooker/ pushed off a bridge]] by a spectator who was enraged that he was blocking traffic. (It's nothing like as bad as it looks; the man had been standing on the bridge for several hours, long enough for the police to get an inflatable cushion under him. He survived with minor injuries.)
* On-line chats, such as IRC, have interrupted and prevented many suicides. Suicidality is far more a surge of helplessness and unovercomeable agony rather than a carefully pre-planned determined project, and even a slight token of support, such as discussion and lending an ear to listen may be enough for the worst agony to pass over and the suicide candidate to survive and get over with the worst. ''Even you'' can prevent a suicide. If you found someone on-line who sounds suicidal and is serious, ''please'' talk with them.

* On-line chats, such as IRC, have interrupted and prevented many suicides. Suicidality is far more a surge of helplessness and unovercomeable agony rather than a carefully pre-planned determined project, and even a slight token of support, such as discussion and lending an ear to listen may be enough for the worst agony to pass over and the suicide candidate to survive and get over with the worst. ''Even you'' can prevent a suicide. If someone on-line sound suicidal and is serious, ''please'' talk with him or her.

* PlayedForDrama in the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/2615918 City of Lost Children]]''. Tom [[FightingFromTheInside regains control of his body for about a second]] and clenches his hand around a steak knife, but his [[PuppeteerParasite Yeerk]] stops him from stabbing himself through the eye and killing them both.

* In ''Film/{{Vertigo}}, Scotty saves Madeline when she tries to kill herself by jumping into San Francisco Bay. Or at least he thinks he does.