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->''"They went home... and sat in a hot bath... opened up their veins... and bled to death. And sometimes they had a little party before they did it."''
-->-- '''Frank Pentangeli''' on AncientRome, ''Film/TheGodfather Part II''

The act of killing oneself by sitting in a tub and slitting one's blood vessels. The warm water is supposed to encourage the easy flow of blood, so in fiction, it's often depicted as a comparatively painless method of suicide that leaves a relatively unblemished (and thus more dignified) corpse. [[BloodIsSquickerInWater And the billowing clouds of blood look really cool, too.]]

Perhaps because of its [[OlderThanFeudalism having been used]] by the [[AncientRome Roman]] Stoic philosopher Seneca, who killed himself [[OrderedToDie at the command of]] his former pupil, the emperor [[TheCaligula Nero]] (as depicted in the page illustration from the ''[[TheLateMiddleAges Nuremberg Chronicle]]''), this act has often been associated with characters who are permitted "honorable deaths" or who take this way out as an alternative to submitting to [[EvilOverlord tyranny]]. On a related note, this is also why "Roman Bath" is a common euphemism for this kind of suicide.

It should be noted that it is ''damn hard'' to kill oneself this way in RealLife, due to the body's pain response and the fact that the arteries are buried quite deep in the arm. Therefore, the romanticized "easy" bath suicide is mostly confined to the realm of fiction.

Sometimes a result of being DrivenToSuicide, and a subtrope of DeadlyBath. Not to be confused with [[ElectrifiedBathtub another popular way to lose your life in a bathtub]].

Compare LeaveBehindAPistol and {{Seppuku}} for alternative methods of ritualised suicide.

[[BloodIsSquickerInWater The mixture of blood and water in the tub]] in the aftermath of this event is not to be confused for a BloodBath.

!!As this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].
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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Kakeru Satsuki's sister from ''VisualNovel/ElevenEyes'' does this before the beginning of the series. It is flashbacked to in episode 1.
* Ryouta Sakamoto's mother in ''Manga/{{Btooom}}'' attempted to kill herself by slitting her wrist in the bathtub when the full horror of the fact she basically sold off her son to die in a DeadlyGame hit her.
* Several people die this way in ''Manga/CaseClosed'', though sometimes it's murder disguised as a suicide. Especially in [[spoiler:the murder of Mina Aoshima, where her killer (her older sister Masayo) drugged her, cut her wrists, bled her out and ''then'' put her hands inside the tub]].
* Kei Kishimoto from ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'' does this before the series took place. When she comes back to life, you can see a flashback of it in episode 6.
* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion'', a flashback shows Yasuho Hirose attempted this in the past after a malevolent Rock Animal started to make her see illusions of her (already messed up) family life getting even worse. Thankfully, the attempt fails.
* A flashback in ''Manga/KingOfThorn'' reveals that [[spoiler:Kasumi]] attempted this, but was [[InterruptedSuicide interrupted]] before she could finish.
* In ''Anime/MyselfYourself'', [[spoiler:Nanaka]] [[DrivenToSuicide tried to commit suicide this way]] after [[TraumaInducedAmnesia remembering]] [[spoiler:that her father was the true culprit of the burning of her house and the murder of her parents]], after learning that [[spoiler:Nanaka was really the child of her mother and her piano teacher]]. Sana rescues her, before revealing that he [[spoiler:had also tried to commit suicide this way in his old middle school after being bullied]].
* Implied to have been attempted in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' [[spoiler:by Asuka, post-MindRape]]. The scene is somewhat ambiguous as to whether this is what actually happened, but the fact that the character is found naked in a bathtub with water that appears stained red, neatly folded her clothes and [[BarefootSuicide took her shoes off]] and is too weak to resist being taken into custody by agents certainly suggests it.
* This is how [[spoiler:Misaki Touno]] died in ''Manga/PrivateActress'', after [[spoiler:having been driven to a mental meltdown by a young and more talented rival named Satoka Ryoudou]].
* ''Manga/SakuraGari'' features this thrice:
** Souma's stepmother committed suicide this way when Souma was a child. [[spoiler:Or so you'd think. [[NeverSuicide The truth is way more horrible]].]]
** When Souma himself is suicidal [[spoiler:after Masataka [[WhatTheHellHero brutally calls him out]] on [[RomanticizedAbuse his horrible treatment of him]]]], he's [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone so broken]] that he cuts his wrists open and places his bleeding arms in the same bathtub where his stepmom died. He lives, though.
** Used in a roundabout way by [[spoiler:Youya a.k.a. Sakurako. After s/he definitely crosses the DespairEventHorizon upon believing s/he has murdered Souma and Masataka and breaks down in front of Lord Saiki, s/he cuts their own wrists with a katana and then drowns themself in a local pond]].
* In the ''Literature/{{Shiki}}'' manga, [[spoiler:Seishin is shown to have attempted this in college. It didn't work]].
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In ''ComicBook/{{Persepolis}}'', Marjane recounts how she attempted suicide using this method (based on a movie she watched), but couldn't manage to cut herself deep enough to bleed much. This was largely cut from the movie.
* Pinky of ''ComicBook/PinkyAndPepperForever'' kills herself by encasing her nude body in resin in their apartment bathtub as an art piece, calling it her "Final Piece."
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': In "A Throne of Bayonets", Asuka tried to commit suicide by sitting on her apartment's bathtub and slitting her wrists after learning about [[spoiler:her mother's execution]]. When several of her friends discussed that episode, they were afraid that she'd attempt to bath suicide again unless they were capable of helping her.
* ''Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX'':
** Subversion in that there is no bathtub to speak of, rather Ran tries to invoke this after her NearRapeExperience by slitting her wrists and lying in the snow, hoping to bleed out. Of course, she failed at this, seeing as she didn't cut her arms correctly and the fact that she did this in snow, the cold of which caused the veins to retract. However, this is also played with later on when Chen does attempt suicide with a bathtub, except instead of cutting, she tried drowning herself.
** Also, in 20XXIV and chapter 62 of 20XXV, this was alluded to as Yukari contemplated committing suicide, possibly this way.
* In chapter ten of ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'', it’s revealed that Shinji attempted this in the past because he believed Asuka hated him.
* ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' has Ebony jumping into the bathtub after slitting her wrists and getting the blood all over her clothes. She takes a [[RougeAnglesOfSatin steak]] and contemplates sticking it into her heart to kill herself.
* ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'': At the beginning of the story, Asuka is in a coma after attempting this.
-->Asuka had once felt like dying too, several times in fact, but there was always something that kept her going.\\
No, not always. She had wandered the streets for days. She had starved herself. She had stripped naked and climbed into that bathtub. And she had waited, her life meaningless, her pride destroyed, her whole being slowly slipping from reality.
* ''Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs'': Asuka did this right before the final chapter when she thought that she had lost all that she had and wanted: [[spoiler:her Evangelion and Shinji]].
* ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'': Mentioned. When Asuka was about to have a bath, she spent a while staring at the tube because it reminded her that she sat in a bathtub and slit her wrists during a breakdown once upon a time.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Sam from ''Film/AboutScout'' attempts suicide by cutting his wrist in the bathtub while his mother pounds on the bathroom door.
* In ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain'', while investigating the town of Piedmont, Stone discovers a man who, quite calmly, leaned over a bathtub and held his own head underwater. Stone looks at this, and says, incredulously, "I wouldn't believe someone could commit suicide like that."
* Mitya does this at the end of ''Film/BurntByTheSun'', which {{Bookends}} his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide by RussianRoulette at the start of the film. He likely got the idea when it was {{discussed|Trope}} earlier in the movie; a woman who tried to slit her wrists was saved because the blood clotted because she didn't try it this way.
* ''Film/{{Curfew}}'': This is combined with InterruptedSuicide. Richie has gotten in the tub and sliced a wrist, and there's already a fair amount of blood turning the water pink when his sister calls, needing an emergency babysitter on short notice. He manages to bind up his wound and leave.
* It's strongly implied that Dr. Weir's wife Claire killed herself this way in ''Film/EventHorizon''. The ship [[ForcedToWatch forces him to watch her do it]].
* In ''Film/TheGodfather Part II'', Tom Hagen visits Frank Pentangeli in prison and talks about this practice in the Roman Empire, hinting that if Pentangeli does this, his family will be spared. He does, and they are. The shot showing the outcome references the painting [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Death_of_Marat_by_David.jpg The Death of Marat]] (a French revolutionary who did not kill himself but rather was stabbed to death in his bath).
* In ''Film/{{Heat}}'', Hanna's stepdaughter tries to do this after becoming seriously distraught that her biodad won't give her the time of day. When he gets home from work, Hanna finds her lying in his bathtub with her wrists cut. He [[InterruptedSuicide immediately ties her arms and legs to stop the bleeding]] and rushes her to the nearest ER.
* ''Film/InTheFade'': Distraught over the deaths of her husband and son, Katja attempts this.
* In ''Film/It1990'', [[spoiler:Stan Uris]] is [[DrivenToSuicide driven]] into this method, and paints the word "It" in his own blood on the shower wall.
* In ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'', [[spoiler:Gianna D'Antonio]] opts for this when John comes to kill her, saying that she lived on her own terms and [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled will die on her own terms as well]]. Zig-zagged when she falls unconscious and John [[BoomHeadshot shoots her in the head]], since dying by her own hand would have been a mortal sin in her religion.
* In ''Film/TheLastOfSheila'', a woman tearfully confesses to being a hit-and-run killer and is later found in the bathtub with her wrists slit. [[spoiler:However, while her now-widowed husband is trying to strangle someone who knows too much, you see that it was he who put her in the tub and cut her.]]
* ''Film/Leviathan1989'': When Bowman starts growing scales and losing her hair, she goes to find Sixpack who shared the vodka with her (not knowing it had been [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink spiked]] by [[TestedOnHumans Soviet scientists]]). When she sees [[BodyHorror what Sixpack has turned into]], she [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled slits her wrists]] in the shower.
* In ''Film/LonelyHearts'', the suicide of a woman is staged and the police find her in a bathtub full of her blood.
* [[spoiler:LadyMacbeth]] goes out this way in the Australian film of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}''.
* In ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'', it's shown that Swan was about to do this when he was offered his DealWithTheDevil.
* {{Double Subver|sion}}ted in the Finnish movie ''Film/{{Prinsessa}}''. Christina, a mentally ill woman, cuts her wrists in a bathtub, with only the intention of draining away her "bad blood". She ends up unintentionally bleeding to death.
* Alluded to in ''Film/RocknRolla''. According to [[LondonGangster Lenny Cole]], his wife went mad and got sent to a BedlamHouse, where "all they had to offer her was a hot bath and a cold razor." Lenny [[WickedStepmother blames his stepson Johnny Quid for this.]] Just goes to show, Lenny's not a NiceGuy.
* ''Film/TheRulesOfAttraction'' has [[spoiler:Sean's secret admirer, who, upon being so badly heartbroken when Sean leaves with Lauren's roommate, promptly commits suicide this way]].
* Lester tries this in ''Film/SaveMe''. Mark and the others find him unconscious and rush him to the hospital.
* Subverted in ''Film/SevenPounds''. [[spoiler:Tim]] seems to be doing this, but in reality, [[spoiler:he had himself stung by a box jellyfish]].
* ''Film/TheSkeletonTwins'': Milo attempts this at the start of the movie.
* In ''Film/SlumdogMillionaire'', the main character's brother goes out this way combined with SuicideByCop: sitting in the bathtub, on top of a pile of stolen rupees, with his pistol aimed at the bathroom door, and taking out as many gangsters as he can. In the end, he dies, but not before bleeding all over his former boss' cash. This means that not only is the mafia boss now missing a few cronies, but he also has to do some literal laundering of his dirty, bloody money.
* [[spoiler:Arvid]] does this in ''Film/SwingKids''.
* [[spoiler:The protagonist's sister]] kills herself in a bath in ''Film/SympathyForMrVengeance''.
* In ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'', the past of [[spoiler:the Angry Princess has her being a beautiful woman who attempted to fix an "imperfection" and bled herself dry because she became blind in one eye]].
* In ''Film/VenusInFursFranco'', Olga dies by slitting her wrists in the bath.
* Happens in the opening scene of ''Literature/TheVirginSuicides''.
* ''Music/TheWall'' has a scene of the hero bleeding out in his swimming pool.
* ''Film/WhereTheTruthLies'': [[spoiler:Vince]] kills himself through taking pills with champagne in the bath.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Literature/TheBrightestStarInTheSky'' by Creator/MarianKeyes, Matt attempts this, but his neighbors manage to realize what was happening and rush him to the hospital just in time.
* In ''Literature/BrotherhoodOfTheRose'', by David Morrell, a retirement village for ex-spies has a high suicide rate, to the distress of the man who runs the place. He notes that some of the victims appear to have been comparing notes on how to do so, as there's been a lot of bath suicides recently. Several of the victims drink heavily to dull the pain but end up passing out and drowning before they bleed to death.
* ''Literature/CloudAtlas'': "Letters from Zedelghem" ends this way, combined with AteHisGun. Frobisher's final letter, written in the moments before he carries out the act, says that he chose the location to spare the hostel owner a lot of messy cleanup.
* Discussed in ''Literature/GenuineFraud'' when one character rules out this method on the grounds that she doesn't want anyone to see her naked when she's dead, but she doesn't want to wear clothes in the bathtub either.
* In Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Ghost'', the world passes anti-miscegenation laws to help curb overpopulation (people were no longer allowed to marry people of the same race). The book's protagonist had already fallen in love with a woman, but the new laws put a crimp in their plans. She found "a painless solution".
* In ''Literature/TheGirlWhoWouldBeKing'', Lola attempts suicide in a bath but fails because of her HealingFactor.
* In the YA book ''Literature/HoldStill'', [[spoiler:Ingrid]] kills herself this way. The book even discusses the relative difficulty of such a suicide method.
* In ''Literature/{{It}}'', this is how [[spoiler:the adult Stanley Uris]] kills himself when he learns that the title EldritchAbomination has returned.
* In ''Literature/TheKiteRunner'', [[spoiler:Sohrab]] tries to kill himself this way [[spoiler:after getting scared he'll be sent to another orphanage, triggering his trauma as an orphan in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Amir reignites his faith in Allah to pray for his survival, which does happen, albeit barely.]]
* In ''Literature/LittleDorrit'', disgraced financier Mr Merdle unexpectedly pays a 'social call' on his stepson and daughter-in-law and asks to borrow a penknife. It later transpires that this was why he needed it...
* Kathleen from ''Literature/TheMermaidsDaughter'' comes from a long line of women who committed suicide in their early twenties because of a HereditaryCurse. Most of them committed suicide in the ocean, with the exception of Kathleen's grandmother Deirdre, who sliced her arms open in the bathtub.
* One character midway through ''Literature/OnAPaleHorse'' kills himself this way, when Zane is still getting used to his role as TheGrimReaper.
%%* Used as a suicide attempt in Creator/ChristopherPike's ''Literature/RoadToNowhere''.
* ''Literature/TheSilerianTrilogy'': Borall slits his wrists in the bath rather than be punished for inadvertently giving state secrets to the rebels.
* The YA book ''Literature/TheSpaceBetween'' has Truman survive this, although not without an NDE in which he meets the main character.
* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': In ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance'', the two women on the run from Jackson's Whole mercenaries {{discuss|edTrope}} this as a method of avoiding capture.
* In ''Literature/WhiteNight'', a despair-inducing vampire tries, and nearly succeeds, to make [[spoiler:Elaine]] do this. Fortunately, Harry gets through to her in time, after which she wraps herself in a towel and blasts the vampire with lightning.
* In ''Literature/WorldWarZ'', in Japan, a beautiful young woman slit her wrists in her bath when the dead rose. It isn't pretty a few days later when the otaku stumbles upon her while fleeing the zombies.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy'', {{Deuteragonist}} Hannah Baker is shown taking her life this way in the final episode of Season 1. In the original novel, it was [[SuicideByPills an overdose of pills]]. Notably, the series goes out of its way to avert the common Hollywood depiction of this kind of suicide as a quick and painless ordeal. Hannah's death is anything but, being a clearly painful and drawn-out affair.
* ''Series/Afterlife2005'' has one character who slit her wrists in the bath after psychic Allison Mundy claimed to see her dead mother behind her.
* In ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum'', [[spoiler:Monsignor/Cardinal Howard]] commits suicide this way once the horrors of Briarcliff are revealed to the public.
* In ''Series/TheBorgias'', [[spoiler:Cardinal Verscucci]] kills himself this way when on the run from the Borgias after setting fire to their finances in vengeance for being ousted from the College of Cardinals.
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': Exploited by the "Bathtub Killer" of Season 1, who kills his victims in bathtubs and stages them to look like suicides.
* ''Series/DarkDesire'': Brenda is found with her wrist slit in the bath. It's theorized that she was really murdered, with it made to appear like a suicide. [[spoiler:However, then it's revealed she really did kill herself.]]
* ''Series/DeadOfSummer'': Joel's brother killed himself by cutting his wrists in the bath due to Holyoke haunting him, which is where Joel found him.
* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': In the climax of season 3, Gloria Hodge tries to kill Bree by slashing her wrists in a hot bath so [[NeverSuicide it will look like a suicide]], and she's prevented from doing it by her son Orson JustInTime.
* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' subverts this twice, in different ways: first, with a serial killer who kills every first victim of his cycle by making it [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident look like this sort of suicide]]. His final kill was [[spoiler:Rita, in the bathtub of Dexter]]'s house. Later, Dexter helps an extremely troubled girl escape after she just committed her first murder, and tells her to meet him at that same house. When he can't find her in the house, the audience is led to believe she may have [[DrivenToSuicide committed suicide]]. He then finds her in the same bathtub the previous murder occurred in. She's just taking a bath.
* In ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', [[spoiler:[[{{Gayngst}} Thomas Barrow]] ]] attempts suicide this way. He is found in time, however, and survives.
* ''Series/ForeverKnight''
** The episode "Last Act", has what appears to be a PsychoShowerMurderParody with the woman taking a shower approached by an unknown menace, but when the curtain's pulled back she just laughs as if she knows them. Then her arm is grabbed and her wrist slashed with a scalpel to [[NeverSuicide make it look like she killed herself]].
** Played straight in the final episode when a friend of Natalie slits her wrists in the bathtub, causing her to reevaluate her own life and her relationship with her RomanticVampireBoy.
* ''Series/{{Kaamelott}}''
** [[spoiler:Arthur]] attempts suicide this way at the of Livre V (season 5).
** In the prequel season 6, [[spoiler:the Roman Emperor is DrivenToSuicide the same way by Méléagant]].
* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS1E8CigaretteBurns Cigarette Burns]]", Kirby's late girlfriend Annie killed herself by slicing her own wrists in the bathtub when they both lived together as heroin junkies. Kirby has to relive the event during one of his visions.
* In ''Series/OneTreeHill'', [[spoiler:Alex]] attempts suicide this way, but [[spoiler:Julian]] gets there in time.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': A pregnant Kelly Kline attempts suicide this way, owing to the fact that her child was fathered by Lucifer. When the child saves her, she decides he's a force of good and deserves to live. Others aren't so sure the child was just trying to save himself.
* In ''Series/{{Westworld}}'', when Juliet, the Man in Black's wife, views the record of his atrocities committed while he was playing a "black hat" in the park, she commits suicide by filling her mansion bathtub and slitting her wrists. The water leaking over the sides of the tub alerts the [=MiB=] to go into the bathroom.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Shown at the end of the music video for the Music/{{Alpha Wolf}} song "Restricted (R18+)" where the woman the video focused on is shown lifeless inside a bath filled with her own blood after killing her father.
* "The War on Drugs" by Music/BarenakedLadies is about suicide in general, but also focuses on one particular character in the first half of the song:
-->In the dream I refuse to have
-->She falls asleep in a lukewarm bath
-->We're left to deal with the aftermath again
* RZA's verse in "1-800-Suicide" by the Music/{{Gravediggaz}}:
-->The only one who escaped was number six
-->He went home, sat in the tub and slit his wrists
* "Bathtub Mermaid" by Music/{{Mili}} is almost entirely about this, although never directly stated.
* Music/{{Pink}}'s video to her song "Fucking Perfect" had the girl it focused around doing this near the end of it, carving "Perfect" into her arm with a razor. Fortunately, it's AllJustADream, and she wakes up from falling asleep in the bathtub and starts painting, eventually cleaning up her life, becoming a famous artist, finding a husband, and having a little girl.
* "Red Water" by Music/{{Rehab}}.
* Implied in the video to "Everytime" by Music/BritneySpears, before the AllJustADream ending (which was apparently the result of ExecutiveMeddling).
* Music/SufjanStevens's "The Only Thing" mentions this.
-->The only thing that keeps me from cutting my arm
--> Cross hatch, warm bath, Holiday Inn after dark
* Implied in the Music/XJapan PV for ''Week End'' as for being how Yoshiki's character eventually accomplished his suicide, with the water and the bleeding wrists...
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[[folder:Theater]]
* In ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'', Roger's girlfriend April killed herself this way before the start of the play, leaving a suicide note reading, "We've got AIDS."
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VisualNovel/CrescendoJP'': [[spoiler:Yuka Otowa]] attempts this, [[InterruptedSuicide but is saved]]. [[spoiler:From then on, she covers the scars with her pink wristbands.]]
* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': Evelyn Parker, out of all people, commits suicide like this in Judy's apartment despite being rescued.
* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'': [[http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=14441 Do It Again]], a custom level, is about doing this to yourself.
* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'': If Alex examines a bathtub inside her family home, the camera rapidly zooms in on the suddenly-full tub in which a corpse of Alex lies in a pool of her own blood, prompting a JumpScare.
* ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'': In the 3D games, you will sometimes run across skeletons in bathtubs, often with caked blood on the floor, and med-x syringes or razors strewn about. Presumably, it was preferable to an imminent nuclear holocaust. One of these bathtubs has a [[ElectrifiedBathtub toaster]] in it as well.
* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'': The mother of one of the Origami Killer's victims attempts this, but is rescued by Shelby.
* ''VideoGame/HomeRivers'': This is one of the possible endings of the game.
* ''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'': [[spoiler:After suffering from the guilt of sacrificing Enoch for a failed Cogito experiment in an attempt to avoid her own demise, Carmen fell into depression]] and attempted this days later. [[spoiler:This does not actually kill her,]] but [[spoiler:her colleague Ayin took the opportunity to remove her cerebral system to extract Cogito.]]
* If you work every day until day 4 in ''VideoGame/OneChance'', [[spoiler:your wife will do this]].
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic mimics the scene from ''Literature/{{It}}'' at the end of his review, except that -- instead of writing "It" -- he scrawls the word [[ItMakesSenseInContext "balloon"]] on the shower wall.
* ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'': Spoony made a reference to doing this, but apologized for it after learning that [[RealitySubtext a fan of his really had committed suicide]].
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': WesternAnimation/BugsBunny pretends to drown in WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd's bathtub in "Elmer's Pet Rabbit" (1940).
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS8E12StupidSpoiledWhoreVideoPlayset Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset]]", in which Paris Hilton thinks Butters is her new dog, he finds a photo album that shows one of her previous dogs who killed itself this way, along with the chihuahua who AteHisGun at the beginning of the episode, and another dog who committed {{Seppuku}}.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Lucius Annaeus Seneca was probably the TropeCodifier, if not the {{Trope Maker|s}}. He is referenced by name in ''Film/TheGodfather'' (see Films, above).
* {{Subver|tedTrope}}sions can happen in RealLife, too. The painting ''The Death of Marat'' by Jacques-Louis David uses framing similar to the depiction of Seneca's death above (making for a possible artistic ShoutOut), but Marat was murdered, not DrivenToSuicide. Website/ThatOtherWiki has more [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Marat here]].
* According to his diary, Lee Harvey Oswald tried to kill himself this way after learning he had been denied entry into Russia.
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