History Main / BathSuicide

* In ''Film/SlumdogMillionaire'', the main character's brother goes out this way combined with the trope 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.

* 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 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.

* In ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum'', [[spoiler:Monsignor]Cardinal Howard]] commits suicide this way once the horrors of Briarcliff are revealed to the public.

-->-- '''Frank Pentangeli''' on AncientRome, ''Film/TheGodfatherPartII''

* 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.]]

* In Part 8 of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', 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.

* In ''Anime/MyselfYourself'', [[spoiler:Nanaka]] [[DrivenToSuicide tried to commit suicide this way]] after [[LaserGuidedAmnesia remembering]] [[spoiler:who the true culprit of the burning of her house and the murder of her parents was - her father,]] 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.]]

** When Souma himself is suicidal [[spoiler: after Masataka [[WhatTheHellHero brutally calls him out]] [[RomanticizedAbuse on 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 aka 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.]]

* 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.

* ''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.

* 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 a DiscussedTrope 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.

* 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/TheGodfatherPartII'', 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).
* Hanna's stepdaughter (played by a young Creator/NataliePortman) in ''Film/{{Heat}}'' tries to do this, after she got seriously distraught that her biodad wouldn'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.

* [[spoiler: Stan Uris]] of the '90 MadeForTVMovie ''Literature/{{It}}'' is [[DrivenToSuicide driven]] into this method, and paints the word "It" in his own blood on the shower wall.

* In ''Film/{{The Last of Sheila}}'' 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'' (2006), 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}}''.

* DoubleSubverted 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.]]

* Subverted in ''Film/SevenPounds''. [[spoiler:Tim]] seems to be doing this, but in reality [[spoiler:he had himself stung by a box jellyfish]].

* In ''Film/SlumDogMillionaire'', the main character's brother goes out this way combined with the trope 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.

* In the movie ''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 Creator/JessFranco's ''Film/{{Venus In Furs|Franco}}'', Olga dies by slitting her wrists in the bath.
* Happens in the opening scene of Sofia Coppola's 1999 hit film ''Literature/TheVirginSuicides''.

* ''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.
* In ''Literature/CaptainVorpatrilsAlliance'', the two women on the run from Jackson's Whole mercenaries [[DiscussedTrope discuss]] this as a method of avoiding capture.
* ''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.
* In Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Literature/{{Ghost|2005}}'', 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 YA book ''Literature/HoldStill'', [[spoiler:Ingrid]] kills herself this way. The book even discusses the relative difficulty of such a suicide method.
* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{It}}'', this is how [[spoiler: the adult Stanley Uris]] kills himself when he learns that the title EldritchAbomination has returned.

* YA book ''Literature/TheSpaceBetween'' has Truman survive this, although not without an NDE in which he meets the main character.
* In ''Literature/WhiteNight'' of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', 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 while fleeing the zombies, stumbles upon her.

* In the TV series adaptation of ''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 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'' had one character who slit her wrists in the bath after psychic Allison Mundy claimed to see her dead mother behind her.
* [[spoiler:Monsignor[=/=]Cardinal Howard]] commits suicide this way once the horrors of Briarcliff are revealed to the public in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum''.

* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "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.

* ''VisualNovel/CrescendoJP'': [[spoiler: Yuka Otowa]] attempts this, [[InterruptedSuicide but is saved]]. [[spoiler: From then on she covers the scars with her pink wristbands.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{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.

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* [[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]].

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': WesternAnimation/BugsBunny pretends to drown in Elmer's bathtub in "Elmer's Pet Rabbit" (1940).
* In a ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode where Paris Hilton thinks Butters is her new dog, he finds a photo album that shows one of her previous dogs killed itself this way. Along with the chihuahua that AteHisGun at the beginning of the episode, and another dog who committed {{Seppuku}}.

* Lucius Annaeus Seneca was probably the TropeCodifier, if not the TropeMaker. He is referenced by name in ''Film/TheGodfather'' (See Films, above.)
* {{Subversion}}s 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]].