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'''Jane''': It says you should only take two every eight hours. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I don't know how people have the time to commit suicide]].

* PlayedForDrama in the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/{{Eleutherophobia}} 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 one mission of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', you have to save Mad Dogg from suicide.

* In ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', one pivotal moment revolves around you arriving just in time to witness a suicide. Fortunately, your time-rewinding powers allow you to reverse it and try to talk them down. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, your powers fail just as the conversation begins, giving you only one chance to talk them down. It's very difficult to succeed, requiring a deep knowledge of the suicidal character that can only be gleaned from a thorough examination of their belongings.]]

* The climax of the Music/StephenSondheim musical ''A Little Night Music'' has seminary student/EmoTeen Henrick almost hanging himself before being interrupted by his stepmother Anne... who is so moved by his desperation that she starts making out with him and they run off together. This isn't as {{Squick}}-y as it sounds: Anne is eighteen years old (Henrick is twenty), still a virgin, and married to a fortysomething man who clearly has feelings for someone else. Okay, it's squicky, but not for the [[IncestIsRelative usual]] [[LikesOlderWomen reasons]].

* ''Manga/{{Life}}'':

--->"Giving up never helped anyone, miss. Trust me on that."

* ''Comicbook/YoungAvengers v2'' had ''two'' of these. Both were Loki interrupting Wiccan (who thought, thanks to [[ManipulativeBastard Loki]], that if [[NoOntologicalInertia he died the monster he summoned would go away]]), first with "Plan A before plan B, Billy", second time with "ILied" (he did not, but meanwhile [[ConscienceMakesYouGoBack found his conscience]]).

* in ''Truth: Red, White, and Black'' Sgt. Luke Evans is about to shoot himself when he hears someone yelling that Pearl Harbor was bombed and the US is in the war.

-->'''Deadpool''': I'm smart enough to know I'm dumb enough that I can't help you. But ''they'' can.\\
'''Blonde Woman''': What if I don't want to go inside? Are you going to make me?\\
'''Deadpool''': I -- I dunno. I don't think I'll have to because... I think you want to walk in. Will you walk in with me? [[MoodWhiplash Plus, maybe we can visit all the elderly people I accidentally beat up]].
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

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* Implied offhand and very quickly during V's route in ''VisualNovel/MysticMessenger''; [[spoiler: Yoosung is having an immensely difficult time dealing with the fact that not only Rika has been secretly alive during the six months he's been agonizingly mourning her, but that she and V faked her death and left him with a gargantuan amount of grief and depression so she could seclude herself in the mountains and [[WellIntentionedExtremist start her cult with the goal of making everyone happy]], so Zen is keeping him at his place to watch over him (making sure he eats something, doesn't drink himself blind, etc.) At one point you're on the phone with Zen, asking how the two of them are holding up, but he has to abruptly hang up to stop Yoosung from running up to the building's rooftop.]]

* Implied offhand and very quickly during V's route in ''VisualNovel/MysticMessenger''; [[spoiler: Yoosung is having an immensely difficult time dealing with the fact that not only Rika has been secretly alive during the six months he's been agonizingly mourning her, but that she only faked her death and left him with a gargantuan amount of grief and depression so she could go [[VisionaryVillain start a cult]], so Zen is keeping him at his place to watch over him (making sure he eats something, doesn't drink himself blind, etc.) At one point you're on the phone with Zen, asking how the two of them are holding up, but he has to abruptly hang up to stop Yoosung from running up to the building's rooftop.]]

* In Chapter 8 of Fanfic/WhenOneBecomesMany, after being forced to remember her sexual abuse by her childhood friend, Yuu (with Lanzhu's provocation) attempts to jump in front of a train but is stopped by Sarah.

*** 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.

* Subverted in a Gothic novel titled ''The Sorrows of Satan'' (1894), in which one character comes out as a villain by coming across another clearly about to commit suicide, and responding "Pardon me! I had no idea you were busy! I will go away. I wouldn't disturb you for the world!"

* ''FilmGirlOnTheBridge'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin if you couldn't tell from the title]], uses this trope to [[IncrediblyLamePun launch]] the protagonists' friendship.

* ''Girl on the Bridge'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin if you couldn't tell from the title]], uses this trope to [[IncrediblyLamePun launch]] the protagonists' friendship.

* In Polish comedy ''Ewa Wants to Sleep'' (''Ewa chce spać'') the eponymous student Ewa arrived in the city late at night, but a day before her school opened, couldn't sign into a dorm and ended up spending the night on the street. When she was standing on a bridge, a policeman mistook her actions as her contemplating suicide and brought her to the station. It was an honest mistake -- she took off her shoes (too tight) and was holding a very large brick ([[ItsALongStory long story]][[note]]A young robber was "selling" the brick to passers-by, but instantly liked her, decided to help her and ran to find her a place to stay, leaving her with his brick.[[/note]]). When Ewa told him she's got nowhere to go, she only confirmed his suspicion that she contemplated suicide.

* The French film ''The Closet'' starts like this: the main character is divorced, estranged from his wife and son, picked on and ignored at work...and has just learned that he's about to be laid off. He contemplates jumping out of his apartment window, but the guy next door spots him. He first talks him down by saying that his car is directly below them, then comes over to discuss it for real.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E111PrintersDevil Printer's Devil]]", depressed by the impending closure of ''The Dansburg Courier'', Douglas Winter is about to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge until he unwittingly summons the Devil, who offers his services as a reporter and linotype operator under the name Mr. Smith.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'':
** In "Tooth and Consequences", the severely depressed dentist Dr. Myron Mandel is about to hang himself from the light fixture in his office when an attractive patient named Lydia Bixby enters looking for her lost hairbrush. Feeling as if he has nothing to lose, Myron asks Lydia out but she turns him down as she usually dates lawyers and pilots. After she leaves, Myron tries to hang himself again but the light fixture breaks. He falls into the arms of the ToothFairy.
** In "A Saucer of Loneliness", Margaret is extremely depressed as she is being continually harassed to reveal the contents of the message given to her by the FlyingSaucer so she tries to drown herself in the sea. However, she is stopped by a man who had been looking for her as he had found the [[MessageInABottle copy of the message that she placed in a bottle]].

** In a segment of "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror XIV" (parodying ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "A Kind of a Stopwatch"), Bart uses a watch [[TimeStandsStill that stops and restarts time]] to play pranks, including making each one of Homer's doughnuts seemingly vanish just as he's about to take the first bite. Homer bursts into tears and tries to stab himself in the chest, only to find the knife replaced with a peeled banana mushed against his suddenly naked body.