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* The prologue of ''VideoGame/YomawariLostInTheDark'' has the protagonist, Yuzu, being bullied at school by her classmates. It ends with Yuzu going up to the school roof, standing at the edge. [[GoryDiscretionShot The camera pans up to the sky to display the title]], before panning back down to her removed shoes at the ledge, suggesting that she threw herself off the roof. This ends the prologue and begins the main plot.

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* The prologue of ''VideoGame/YomawariLostInTheDark'' has the protagonist, Yuzu, being bullied at school by her classmates. It ends with Yuzu going up to the school roof, standing at the edge. [[GoryDiscretionShot The camera pans up to the sky to display the title]], before panning back down to her removed shoes at the ledge, suggesting that she threw herself off the roof. This ends the prologue and begins the main plot. [[spoiler: Subverted, as the Spirit Forest's entrance involves jumping off the school roof.]]

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* When Evelyn [=McHale=] jumped off the Empire State Building in 1947 and landed on a limousine, it seems [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Evelyn_McHale.jpg she took her shoes off first]]. (Image is not super gory. She looks asleep, but she is dead.)
* It is not uncommon, at least in the West, for suicides to take off not only their shoes but all their clothes before the act. Opinion is divided: it might be a symbolic parting with the last things that bind them to this world before leaving, or an instinctive wish to leave the world in the same state in which they arrived, or a final act of intent that they are going to go through with it. It would be embarrassing to ''fail'' in the attempt and to be found with no clothes on, after all...
* [[https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/lpxita/my_japanese_workbook_has_this_lovely_drawing_as/ This]] Japanese language workbook depicts a woman about to jump off a building, her shoes and a note nearby. It illustrates the phrase "Please do not die."
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