History Main / InterruptedSuicide

* In ''Series/FlashForward'', [[spoiler: Bryce was about to commit suicide when he (and the rest of the world) blacked out. He considers the visions of the future he got a gift that stops him from trying again.]]

* In ''VideoGame/CorpseParty: Blood Covered'', [[spoiler: Naomi]] finds [[spoiler: Seiko]] hanging from a rafter; the player chooses how they try and save them. [[spoiler: Regardless of your choice, it fails]]. Given the setting, it's unclear at first whether this was an honest suicide attempt or something else is to blame... [[spoiler: And the truth, when it comes out, is [[AwfulTruth simply horrible]].]]
* At the very beginning of ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'', you encounter a man about to jump into a gorge. He decides not to jump no matter what you say to him.
* In ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Dimensions'', Ayane is about to kill herself by [[ImpromptuTracheotomy plunging a kunai into her throat]], when her mother Ayame walks in on her.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'':
** Shepard can stop [[spoiler:Samara]] from shooting herself in the head when [[spoiler:her code compels her to kill her last living non-evil daughter for being an [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Ardat-Yakshi]] outside of the temple.]] Doing so will allow both Shepard and [[spoiler:Falere to convince her to agree to another option.]]
** If [[spoiler: Tali]] is DrivenToSuicide by [[spoiler: the extinction of just about her entire species in combat with the geth]], Shepard can pull a Paragon interrupt to try to catch her. [[spoiler: It fails.]]
* In episode 2 of ''The Way'', the main character comes across a guy about to jump off a cliff. Depending on dialogue choices, you can talk the guy out of it, encourage him to go through with it, or [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential push him off yourself]].
* In ''VideoGame/BlackKnightSword'', the player character is about to hang himself when he is drawn into the story and becomes the Black Knight. [[spoiler:In the True Ending, he returns to finish it.]]
* In ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', one pivotal moment revolves around Max arriving just in time to witness [[spoiler:Kate's]] suicide. Fortunately, her time-rewinding powers end up freezing time at the right moment, allowing her to get close enough to try to talk them down. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Max's powers fail completely just as the conversation begins, giving her only one chance to persuade Kate not to go through with her suicide. It's very difficult to succeed, requiring a deep knowledge of Kate that can only be gleaned from a thorough examination of her belongings, though it certainly helps if Max was compassionate enough towards her in several earlier scenes.]]
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''. If you try to jump off a bridge while an NPC is nearby, they'll think Link is trying to kill himself and stop him.
-->''Hey! Don't be rash! You won't change the world by jumping carelessly to your doom, don't ya know!''
* Hiroyuki from ''VideoGame/{{Loopmancer}}'', when fought as a boss for the first time. When you manage to survive his attacks for a whole minute, he realize he lost his challenge and prepares to commit {{seppuku}}, but his grandmother Shizue arrives and stops him.
* ''VideoGame/FatalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater'' plays with this trope:
** A dark subversion of this is shown in a flashback, in which Hisoka is tasked with finding a girl, whom Hisoka finds at a cliff but isn't able to stop from falling off of it to her death in time. Hisoka regards this as [[MyGreatestFailure her greatest failure]].
** An example of this trope being played straight is shown in a flashback where Yuuri, one of the main playable characters of the game, was about to jump off a cliff, but Hisoka stopped her in time and took her in. [[spoiler: Whether she stays alive at the end of the game depends on which ending the player gets.]]

* ''VideoGame/RealityMinds'': [[spoiler:Kvena uses positive essences to enhance Silvana's desire to die, but Astrake intentionally thinks negatively in order to generate negative essences, allowing him to cancel out the positive essences and stop Silvana from killing herself.]]

* ''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'': You can stop [[spoiler:Jeremy Donaldson]] from shooting himself or committing SuicideByCop at the end of Day 296 if you cut to the ads before he does so.
* ''VideoGame/DrowningDrowning'' begins with Maia diving into the sea with the expectation of drowning, but the fish girl Amphithoe is there to give her a magical kiss that lets her breathe underwater. Am only does it because she thinks Maia wants to play with her, and [[AccidentalHero has no idea she is saving Maia's life]].
* ''VideoGame/{{SOS}}'': [[spoiler:If Luke Haines escapes with Captain Ismay Carl Townsend and at least 25 points of survivors, the captain congratulates him on a successful escape, but tells him that he won't live with the shame. When the captain attempts to shoot himself in the head, Luke knocks the pistol out of his hand and [[GetAholdOfYourselfMan slaps some sense into him before telling him that he has to move on and live to tell the story]].]]
* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' has Susan Bowles, the mother of the Origami Killer's latest victim. Scott arrives at her home just in time to foil her attempt at a BathSuicide.
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': In a side mission Arthur can take on behalf of his LoveInterest Mary, he's tasked with retrieving her brother Jamie from the Chelonian cult. Jamie initially attempts to flee from Arthur but eventually produces a gun and tries to shoot himself in the head, at which point Arthur [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands shoots the gun out of his hand]] and brings him back to his sister.
* Done tragically in the prologue of ''VideoGame/DeathStranding''. Igor, Sam's new acquaintance in BRIDGES Corpse Disposal, tries to shoot himself in the head when the two of them are overwhelmed by [[OurGhostsAreDifferent BTs]], knowing full well that a living human who is devoured by a [=BT=] will cause a devastating "voidout". He's yanked upwards by an invisible force at the last moment, however, and gets dragged into the maw of the nearby Catcher BT, which causes a voidout that levels Central Knot City.

* In ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'', from the second playthrough onwards, halfway through the common route Kengo manages to save his depressed friend from committing suicide by leaping off the building wall as well and grabbing her so he takes the fall instead. [[spoiler:Or so happened in this world - in the real world, she wasn't interrupted.]]
* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'':
** In [[spoiler:every world]], [[spoiler:Rena]] attempted to slit her throat (wrists in the anime) after her parents' stressful divorce, an AttemptedRape on her, and her [[BatterUp subsequent rampage]] in her school. She does inflict mortal wounds however her father (nurses in the manga) caught her before she bled out. This is a part of her backstory.
** [[spoiler:Rika]] tries to bite off her tongue to escape being killed by [[spoiler:Takano]] in the Final Arc, only to be gagged from behind before she can do it.

* In ''Webcomic/MonsieurCharlatan'', [[http://monsieur-charlatan.com/archive/page-3/ his initial attempt.]]
* In the superhero arc of ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'', Arthur/Kingman tries to talk down a jumper by reminding him of how much there is to live for. The jumper agrees to come down as long as he doesn't have to hear any more of "that {{Pollyanna}} crap".
* ''Webcomic/MareInternum'' starts off with the attempted suicide of the protagonist. Fortunately for the comic, there's an urgent call before he's quite done.
* Sadly {{Subverted}} in ''Webcomic/EightCicadas'', when Annette walks in on her husband holding a gun to his head and tries talking him out of it, but to no avail.
* In [[http://www.loadingartist.com/comic/lifted-spirits/ Lifted Spirits]] from ''Webcomic/LoadingArtist''.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': Melissa's very first heroic action, as seen in the flashback in "The Mystery of Melinda", is stopping someone from committing suicide by performing a HeroicSacrifice. Thanks to her ResurrectiveImmortality, she can afford to be TakingTheBullet.

* In the ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' "Understanding," a woman calls Rampart from her home, saying she swallowed some downers and turned on the gas, and just wants someone to talk to while she dies. The doctors rush to find her address, complete with a PhoneTraceRace, so paramedics and a fire truck can be dispatched to her house to save her and deal with a possible gas explosion.
* ''Series/ControlZ'': [[spoiler:Gerry]] is clearly contemplating shooting himself when he's interrupted by a text telling him the hacker's identity.
* ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'': In "The Sweet Hereafter", Cheryl Blossom attempts to kill herself by standing on thin ice and hammering at it under she falls through. Archie manages to pull her out and resuscitate her.
* ''Series/AFrenchVillage'': Jean comes home and finds Eliane tried to hang herself in guilt at Josephine's death. He saves her though before it's too late.
* ''{{Series/Pandora}}'': Pilar is just barely stopped when she's about to jump off the roof after being driven into depression through [[spoiler:an abusive simulation Sarika trapped her in.]]
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': In "Promises", Aeryn holds a blaster pistol to her temple and tells the Villain of the Week (who wants to kill her for assassinating one of their own) that she'll kill herself if they let the rest of the crew go. Before she can pull the trigger, Rygel rams into her from behind on his hover-throne and knocks the blaster out of her hand.
* ''{{Series/Probe}}'''s "[[Recap/ProbeQuitIt Quit-It]]": Ten minutes into the episode, Austin sees a pair of kids tell off their fathers. Mr Strawn is told to suck an egg and Mr Baxton is told to shoot himself. He doesn't pay much attention at first, but then he notices Strawn sucking a raw egg and runs to find Baxton before it's too late.
* ''Series/DeathInParadise'': A very dark version occurs in [[spoiler:"Pirates of the Murder Scene"]]. A woman is DrivenToSuicide by her [[DomesticAbuse abusive husband]]. As she plans to throw herself off the local lighthouse. Her husband arrives to stop her from jumping. In the subsequent struggles, she [[AccidentalMurder pushes him over the railing to his death]].
* ''Series/{{Misfits}}'': Abbie tries to kill herself by overdosing with pills when Laura rejects her, while Jess stops it.
* ''Series/TheOutpost'': After breaking his conditioning by the Prime Order, Garret was overridden with guilt that even led to him becoming suicidal for a brief moment before Gwynn stopped him.
* ''Series/{{Intergalactic}}'': Ash is stopped right before killing herself [[ThrownOutTheAirlock via airlock evacuation]] by Candy.
* In the season sixth premiere of ''Series/TheShield'', [[spoiler:upon learning that he killed his friend Lem over a misunderstanding, Shane is so guilt-ridden that he plans to [[AteHisGun stick his gun in his mouth]], only to be interrupted by the arrival of his fiancee and their child. Unfortunately, this ends up leading to more tragedies]].
* ''Series/TwoSentenceHorrorStories'': In "[[Recap/TwoSentenceHorrorStoriesS3E5Teeth Teeth]]", heartbroken by Cara's rejection, Olivia tries to commit suicide by stepping into the sunlight, but Cara, having had a change of heart, pulls her back before she's burned alive.
* ''Series/WildBill'': In "Piano Man" Bill arrives just in time to find Si's hanged himself inside his cell and save him.
* ''Series/Accused2023'': In "Jack's Story", Jack stops Clara just as she tries to hang herself, coming {{just in time}}.
* ''Series/ThePower2023'': Eve stops Savannah, another young woman who she meets at the convent, from jumping to her death.
* ''Totally Completely Fine'': The plot of this series consists of a woman named Vivian inheriting a house from her grandfather. It turns out that the house is by a cliff which is a common suicide site, and thus, Vivian needs to regularly talk people out of jumping to their deaths.

* Subverted in the video for John Waite's "Change," in which a reporter tries to talk a woman down off the ledge of a high building. [[spoiler: He fails, and she jumps, but the last shots reveal that she's fine: they're just filming a movie scene.]]

* The protagonist of Music/CollectiveSoul's "The World I Know" video climbs up to a rooftop to jump. Just before he can jump, a pigeon lands in his hand and he changes his mind.
* The video for "You're Only Human (Second Wind)" by Music/BillyJoel begins with a depressed young man about to jump off a bridge when he is stopped by a gust of wind and an angel, played by Billy, playing a bit of "Piano Man" on the harmonica to get his attention. [[spoiler: Billy successfully saves the man in the end]]

* 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 usual [[LikesOlderWomen reasons]].
* Subverted in ''Theatre/SpringAwakening'' [[spoiler: when Ilse unknowingly interrupts Moritz's suicide attempt -- only to have him go ahead with it as soon as she leaves]]
* OlderThanRadio: Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart's ''[[Theatre/TheMagicFlute Die Zauberflöte]]'' uses it twice, with Pamina and then Papageno on the verge of killing themselves.

* Taken to its extreme in the Morris Panych play ''7 Stories'', where the nameless protagonist is consistently interrupted by the residents of the 7th-story building he is about to jump from. The entire play revolves around his attempts to jump before being interrupted by yet another resident, too caught up in their own lives to question his being there.
* In Creator/AlanAyckbourn's ''Absurd Person Singular'', Eva spends the entirety of the second act attempting to kill herself in various ways, only to get interrupted each time. HilarityEnsues.

* The basis of Anthony Pezzula's one-act play ''Room 12.'' A young adult, Erik, checks himself into a hotel room with the idea of committing suicide by shooting himself. A maid does her best to talk him out of it and by the end of the play, [[spoiler: gets Erik to give her the bullets and leaves him for the night. However, he has more stashed under his pillow. The play ends before we know if Erik decided ultimately to shoot himself or not.]]
* In ''Theatre/{{Faust}}'' by Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe, Faust attempts suicide by poison in the first act but is stopped by the bells ringing outside, celebrating Easter.
* In ''Theatre/TheGoodPersonOfSzechwan'', the protagonist Shen Te meets a destitute young man who is planning to hang himself. She falls in love with him and persuades him to keep living (though as it turns out she might have been much better off if she'd just left him to it).
* In ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'', just as the title character is about to commit suicide, her maid Suzuki pushes her young son into the room in hope that the sight of him will stop her. In the original novella by John Luther Long, this works, and in a BittersweetEnding the two women take the child and leave the house before Mrs. Pinkerton can come to take him away. But in David Belasco's play adaptation and in the opera, [[AdaptationalAlternateEnding it only delays her slightly]]: she bids the boy a heartbreaking farewell, then [[DeathByAdaptation goes through with her suicide]]
* At the end of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' -- at the far end of what will be called "accidental judgments, casual slaughters... deaths put on by cunning and forced cause" and with the title character dying of poison -- the last character in the scene standing picks up the poisoned wine, meaning to follow them, and with the last of his strength, the prince wrestles it away from him, telling him at least someone has to live to tell the story.

* In ''Theatre/{{Heathers}}'', after Heather M receives an unjustified ReasonYouSuckSpeech from the entire school for simply having suicidal thoughts in "Shine A Light (Reprise)", she very nearly offs herself via pills. However, Veronica thankfully saves her at the last minute and convinces her that it's not worth ending her life over. They share a much-needed hug at the end.

* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'':
** Happens twice on the same character; Lamia Loveless, after completing her role in Original Generation 2 and Advance, is prompted to blow herself up because she thinks that beings like her should not exist... of course the heroes make it just in time before she blows herself up. The next time, she is BrainwashedAndCrazy, and the manipulator says that if she fails her mission, she should blow herself up. She is about to until Axel Almar overrides the order to self-detonate and bails her out completely.
** Axel was about to do the same in his scenario in ''Advance''. No blowing up, just trying to let himself run out of air while floating in space.

* In the Gingerbread House chapter of ''VideoGame/RuleOfRose'' Jennifer walks in on Gregory with a gun on his temple. Considering all that happens later on, it might have been a good idea to leave him be, though whether he would have gone through with it anyway is hard to say.
* In the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' mission "Madd Dogg", CJ has to save the namesake rapper from jumping to his death by parking a truck filled with boxes underneath him.

* ''Series/TheGlamorousImperialConcubine'': Su Yao attempts suicide after being revealed as a spy. Mo Chou grabs the knife before she can stab herself.
* ''Series/TheDevilJudge'': Ga-on tries to kill himself and Professor Min. Yo-han arrives and defuses the bomb just in time.
* ''Series/TheEternalLove'': Jing Xin walks in while Tan Er is preparing to kill herself.
* ''Series/Mouse2021'': Ba-reum is about to jump off a bridge when he's interrupted by his phone ringing.
* ''Series/PsychopathDiary'': A variant. Dong-sik plans to commit suicide but is too scared to do it. So when he sees a car arrive at the building he uses the possibility of being caught to convince himself to go home.
* ''Series/GeneralAndI'': Yang Feng tries to hang herself. Bai Ping Ting arrives just in time to stop her.
* In season 5 of ''Series/TwentyFour'', Jack shoots the gun out of the hand of a terrorist who was about to shoot himself, only for the terrorist to crawl over to the body of one of his men and use his explosive-wired vest to do the job. Later that season, [[spoiler: [[PresidentEvil Charles Logan]] is about to commit suicide with his own personal firearm after he thinks that his part in the grand conspiracy is about to be exposed. Cue a call from a mysterious benefactor...]]
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Tywin breaking the door in "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS2E9Blackwater Blackwater]]" stops Cersei from proceeding in suicide with her son Tommen, because she was convinced the city would fall to the unflappable Stannis.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
** In "Need", Daniel Jackson did this to Shyla and ended up addicted to the sarcophagus.
** And in "The Light", Daniel is the character trying to jump after becoming addicted to an alien light show. Jack O'Neill talks him off the apartment balcony, in a touching scene in an otherwise one-off episode.
* In an episode of ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Ruby uses her werewolf speed/strength to physically catch Dr. Whale/[[spoiler:Dr. Frankenstein]] right after he jumps, and then [[TalkingDownTheSuicidal talks him out of trying again.]]
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': Shawn's father stops a woman from jumping out a window to her death. However, Shawn and Gus (who don't actually see what happened) think she succeeded in killing herself and end up starting an urban legend that persists for the next twenty years.
* The ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "[[Recap/TorchwoodS2E8ADayInTheDeath A Day in the Death]]" features Dr. Owen Harper telling the story of the past few days to a young woman while trying to talk her out of killing herself. "The past few days" happen to include [[spoiler: Owen coming to terms with his undeath]].

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
*** One episode has Worf attempting to perform a ritualistic form of assisted suicide on his disgraced brother to restore his honor, only to be stopped ''just'' after the dagger is plunged into his brother's heart by Dax, who learned he had accosted Quark for trying to sell him replicated versions of an incense necessary for the ritual. Near the end of the same episode, Worf interrupts his brother, who is prepared to kill himself with a disruptor (claiming that while it would be a dishonorable death, he would still be with other Klingons in ''Gre'thor'').
*** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E19HardTime Hard Time]]", O'Brien nearly kills himself after being given false memories of a twenty-year prison sentence in which he killed his imaginary cellmate. Bashir intervenes, convincing him that he is still a good man.
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
*** Back when Worf was still chief of security on the ''Enterprise'', he tried to commit ritual suicide with a Klingon dagger in his quarters, as he was afraid he was losing his mind and preferred death to dishonor. Luckily, Troi had noticed Worf suddenly leaving the Bridge and followed him to his quarters where she talked him out of it. ("[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E17NightTerrors Night Terrors]]").
*** 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.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'':
** In the episode "Through the Looking Glass" Jack is stopped from jumping off a bridge when a car crashes, forcing him to come to the rescue. The events of season 4 strongly suggest that [[spoiler:the island itself has arranged this, as Michael's suicide attempts in "Meet Kevin Johnson" are repeatedly thwarted. In an ironic twist, Jack finds out that the only reason the car crashed is that the driver was distracted by seeing Jack on the bridge.]]
** In a much darker twist in season 5, [[spoiler:Locke attempts to hang himself but is interrupted by Ben]], who talks him out of it. This is all fine and good until [[spoiler:something Locke says causes Ben to snap, and he suddenly strangles Locke to death and makes it look like suicide]].
** In season 3, Desmond, alone in the Swan station and stranded on the island for six years, was shown to have been about to commit suicide when he was interrupted by [[spoiler: Locke banging on the hatch]].

* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': Edie tries to set this up, waiting until right as Carlos got back to the house to hang herself so that he'd be able to save her. Then the ''"JustInTime" arrival'' gets interrupted, and she has to scramble to get herself to safety, as she never really intended to die.
** Then in season eight, Bree checks into a motel with the intention of shooting herself. She is inadvertently saved by Renee, who followed her under the assumption that Bree was having an affair with her boyfriend.
* It's a recurring gag in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', where depressed hospital attorney Ted is constantly seen attempting suicide. Most times he lacks the will to carry through, but there are occasions when he is interrupted by outside interference. Subverted in the times when Dr. Kelso (aware of Ted's weakness) openly mocks Ted by explicitly ''encouraging'' Ted to kill himself. In one instance, he manages to slip over the edge. His joy is squashed when he lands in soft, soft trash.
-->'''Ted''': Is this heaven?\\
'''Janitor''': No, it's garbage.

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'':
** In a flashback in the episode "Villains," Elle arrives just in time to keep Gabriel from hanging himself out of guilt.
** In a later episode, Hiro spends the better part of the episode going back in time to prevent a fired co-worker from making the mistake that sends his life downhill, thus driving him to suicide. After 47 attempts in which the man still repeats the mistake (getting drunk and photocopying his butt) every time, Hiro just talks him out of it.

* This has happened a few times in ''Series/{{House}}''. In the 3rd season episode "Informed Consent," the suicidal elderly patient falls out of bed with his nasal cannula wrapped around his neck but is saved by an unsuspecting nurse.
* In the new show ''Series/FlashForward'', [[spoiler: Bryce was about to commit suicide when he (and the rest of the world) blacked out. He considers the visions of the future he got a gift that stops him from trying again.]]

* In the ''Series/RemingtonSteele'' episode "Steele in Circulation", Steele starts the episode pulling a guy down off a bridge... and then has to spend most of the rest of it averting his attempts to walk into traffic and fling himself off roofs until an attempt on the man's life gets him indignant enough to stop.
* In the first episode of ''Uncle'', Andy is about to commit suicide when he gets a telephone call from his sister Sam, asking him to pick up her son Errol from football practice.
* In the season 1 finale of ''Series/VeronicaMars'', Logan is standing on a bridge, obviously considering jumping, when Weevil and his gang show up. Since he is in the later seasons, the interruption seems to have saved him. They beat the snot out of him, though.
* ''Series/TheWire'' Guilt-ridden over the death of [[spoiler: Sherrod, Bubbles tries to hang himself in the BPD Homicide interrogation room]]. Norris and Landsman return in time to [[spoiler: cut him down]].
* On an episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', Gibbs has just managed to talk a would-be jumper into coming off the roof he was on... when he's shot and killed by a sniper. Of course, this was in the opening scene, they needed the guy to die for the sake of having a story.
* PlayedForLaughs in an episode of ''Series/{{Coupling}}'': Jane announces to Susan and Sally that she's taken an overdose of painkillers, and they desperately try to get her to vomit. Then it turns out that she only took ''two'' painkillers. And ''then'' it turns out [[IntoxicationEnsues they probably weren't painkillers]]...
-->'''Susan''': That's not an overdose. That's a dose!\\
'''Jane''': It says you should only take two every eight hours. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I don't know how people have the time to commit suicide.]]
* Happened on the first episode of (the original) ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}''. In despair over finding himself stuck in 1973 Manchester and wanting desperately to return to the present day (2006), Sam Tyler climbs onto the roof of the police headquarters, fully intending to jump. Annie Cartwright, the WPC with a degree in psychology, tries to talk him down and her words do reach him, but what ultimately convinces him to quit is noticing some grains of sand on Annie's hand (from when she was climbing up to save him). Thinking that amount of detail could never be conceived in his own mind, he takes her words to heart and climbs down with her.
* Happened in ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'' Episode 1.18: "April Is the Cruelest Month". Roger Azarian writes a screenplay that leads Brandon Walsh to believe he wants to kill his father. As Roger points the gun to his face, this is clearly not the case and he talks him out of it. In hindsight, on two occasions Roger had mentioned "not being there anymore". The episode ends with Brandon visiting Roger in the Psych ward and incredibly cheesy friendship music playing.

* ''Series/TheClass2006''
** The series opens with Richie standing at the sink with a handful of sleeping pills and a glass of water. The phone rings, and it's played for comedy as he decides whether to answer or not. He does and is invited to a party with his entire second grade class from 25 years ago.
** Happens to the same guy in the next episode. He'd be a lovely young lady at the party, they had coffee, fell in love, and he backed over her in the parking lot, breaking her legs. The episode opens with him at the sink again, only this time, he swallows the pills before the phone rings. She's out of surgery and wants to see him, so he goes to the hospital but gets his stomach pumped before he goes to her room.
* An episode of the Russian medical sitcom ''Interns'' has the American intern Phil Richards come to work only to see a guy about to jump from the ward window with everybody just looking at him. Phil attempts to talk to him and ends up grabbing him. Everybody cheers for a second and goes about their business. As the episode continues, he gets more frustrated with everybody treating this as anything from uneventful to bad press (the hospital administrator specifically tells him to keep it to himself in order to avoid putting the hospital in a bad light). As usual, Phil loudly laments that back in the States he would be treated as a hero for saving a life and that Russia is a screwed-up country where people don't care about one another. In fact, his fellow interns tell him he should've let the guy jump. After all, it's only a second-story window. At worst, the guy would've broken a leg and would be transferred to another department.
* This sort of happens in "Rendevous With Yesterday", the pilot of ''Series/TheTimeTunnel''. 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.
-->'''Tony''': Althea, what are you doing? The ship is sinking!\\
'''Althea''': It doesn't matter for me.
* A fugitive in ''Series/{{Justified}}'' jumps out of Raylan's car and kneels in front of a truck, but Raylan tackles him at the last second.
* In an AlternateTimeline episode of ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', a bungled attempt to [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct time travel and kill Hitler]] leads to the Nazis taking over Europe, including the UK. However, the storm that gave all of them their powers still happens. Seth's SuperEmpowering abilities are being used to empower high-ranking Nazi officials. Kelly walks in on him hanging himself and ends up saving his life. This ends up being a problem because Kelly is part of LaResistance and was supposed to poison him.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Implied in "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E03TheGeometryOfShadows The Geometry of Shadows]]". Garibaldi has been recently brought out of a coma, three months after he nearly died trying ([[MyGreatestFailure and failing]]) to prevent the assassination of President Santiago. The new commander, Captain Sheridan, enters Garibaldi's quarters and finds him repeatedly loading and unloading his pistol. Garibaldi puts the gun down when Sheridan wants to talk with him, and at the end of the conversation, Sheridan picks up the gun and places it back in its holster.
-->'''Sheridan''': [[DareToBeBadass The universe doesn't give us points for doing the easy things.]]
* ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'': Potential suicide is one of the types of emergencies the SRU is trained to handle. They're pretty good at it.
* In the KoreanDrama ''Series/BoysBeforeFlowers'', the action is kicked off by this trope. The protagonist Geum Jan-Di (the Korean "Tsukushi Makino") tries to convince a rich boy to not drive his car off a cliff after he breaks from being bullied into insanity at school, and that's what gets her a scholarship ''at that same school''.

* In Season 6 of ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', Thomas tries to kill himself by cutting his wrists. Luckily, he's found in time by Baxter.
* Played with in the ''Series/EnemyAtTheDoor'' episode "Steel Hand From the Sea". A disillusioned German officer goes to a remote beach and ponders committing suicide by throwing himself down onto the wave-washed rocks. He's interrupted by the arrival of two locals who have chosen the same remote location for a secret meeting -- one of whom promptly knocks him off onto the rocks to prevent him from reporting them to the authorities.
* ''Series/TotalRecall2070'':
** When Detectives Hume and Farve are walking the streets, they get into an emergency involving a woman threatening to jump off a building. She commits suicide right in front of Hume, who fails to talk her down.
** Later in the series, David Hume's wife Olivia is driven to suicide by people who want to stop her from testifying for a murder that she saw someone else commit. David catches her in time and gets her to throw up the pills she swallowed.

* The protagonist of Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Literature/OnAPaleHorse'' is about to commit suicide when he's interrupted by TheGrimReaper, showing up in time to collect his soul. Face to face with mortality, he turns the gun upon and shoots Death, and then Fate shows up and tells him "Congratulations, [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt you're the new Death]]."
* ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'' includes a scene in which the heroine, believing her love interest to be dead, is about to plunge a dagger into her heart... until said love interest appears and rebukes her for trying to ruin a [[BuxomBeautyStandard perfectly good pair of breasts]].
-->''"There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a shame to ruin yours."''
* The very first ''Literature/{{Raffles}}'' story, "The Ides of March", starts with the narrator, Bunny Manders, on the verge of financial ruin and disgrace; he asks his old friend Raffles for money; when Raffles explains he has none, Bunny attempts to kill himself in front of the other man, at which point Raffles stops him and offers him a job.
* Subverted in a Gothic novel titled ''Literature/TheSorrowsOfSatan'' (1895), 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 would not disturb you for the world!"

* Played extremely darkly in ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'': every time the characters try to commit suicide, AM forcefully intervenes. Because he wants to keep torturing them for eternity.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** Parodied in ''Literature/TheTruth''; the main character climbs up to talk down a man who, as it turns out, is "really more into the 'cry for help' aspect" and ends up having to save ''him'' when he faints from vertigo.
** Also subverted in ''Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld'', when Rincewind finds a fish crawling onto the beach. Not realizing it's another evolutionary breakthrough in progress, he assumes it's committing suicide and repeatedly puts it back in the water.
* In ''Literature/TheGreatBrain'', Andy Anderson decides he's useless after losing his leg and, with John's help, decides to kill himself. Tom walks in on their unsuccessful attempt at hanging and assumes at first that they're only playing. Tom ends up offering to teach Andy how to play and do his chores with his peg leg. For a price, of course.
* ''Literature/BouvardAndPecuchet'' 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.
* In "Literature/SimonsPapa'', Simon goes to the river intending to drown himself, but he gets distracted by various creatures. However, the thought recurs, and he tries to say a prayer beforehand. However, he can't finish for sobbing. Luckily, his grief attracts the attention of the local blacksmith, Phillip Remy, who takes him home to his mother.
%%* Happens ''twice'' (to different characters) in the Creator/AgathaChristie novel ''Towards Zero''.
* Edward Cullen of ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' attempts this in ''Literature/NewMoon'' when he thinks his beloved Bella Swan is dead. He is saved by Bella herself.

* In ''Havana Bay'', one of the sequels to ''Literature/GorkyPark'', Inspector [[RussianGuySuffersMost Arkady Renko]] decides to commit suicide with a stolen syringe in Cuba after confirming that a body found in the harbor was an old friend of his[[note]]This being basically the end of a [[HumiliationConga string of particularly tragic misfortune for him]][[/note]]. However, it seems that [[SpannerInTheWorks his arrival in Cuba]] led some conspirators to believe that he was onto them, [[RevealingCoverUp so they sent an assassin after him]]. Who he reflexively kills with the stolen syringe, distracting him from his [[DeathSeeker death wish]] as he tries to find out ''why'' someone wanted to kill him.
-->''[[IronWoobie All you had to do was wait.]]''
* Arto Paasilinna's novel ''Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha'' ("The Amazing Group Suicide", more or less) starts with one of the protagonists about to hang himself in an out-of-the-way abandoned barn when he's interrupted by the other main character... who's come there to shoot himself. While telling each other their stories, they come up with the idea of starting a society for people who want to kill themselves, hiring a bus, and going on a road trip first. HilarityEnsues, literally: it's one of the funniest works in Finnish literature. (Ending spoiler: [[spoiler: EverybodyLives]].)
* A lot of the stories in the ''Literature/ChickenSoupForTheSoul'' series deal with this. Given what [[{{Glurge}} the series is like overall]], these tend to be of the ''[[HappilyFailedSuicide happily]]'' interrupted sort.
* Buy Mitsui, in ''Literature/JenniferGovernment''. He calls the titular character for help after he first pulled the trigger because ''he does not know how to work the safety on the gun.'' They wind up in a relationship that pretty thoroughly removes any of his suicidal inclinations.
* In ''Literature/EnchantressFromTheStars'', Elana, the main protagonist, is captured by imperials should be subjected to mind-probing. Not wanting to divulge anything, she runs toward the imperial rock-chewer, intent to be crushed by the debris. However, [[TheHero Georyn]] rescues her by stopping the whole load of rocks in mid-air using telekinesis. This also scares the imperials into running.
* In ''Literature/TheMerryMuse'', a Scottish poet attempts to jump off a bridge but is saved by the (rather forcible) intervention of an English tourist. The poet then files charges for assault against the tourist... and the charges are upheld because under Scots law suicide isn't a criminal act; therefore the "rescuer" ''was'' actually committing a criminal assault!
* In ''Literature/BeforeIFall'', after dying, Sam is forced to relive her last day on earth in a GroundhogDayLoop. In one loop, [[spoiler: she sees Juliet about to jump in front of a car and temporarily stalls her, only for Juliet to jump in the road when Sam isn't looking. In the final loop, Sam jumps in front of Juliet and dies instead.]]
* ''Literature/FiveWeeksInABalloon'': When the heroes are stranded in the desert without anything to drink, Dick eventually goes insane and tries to shoot himself. Joe manages to wrestle the rifle away from him.
* Creator/RobertSheckley's ''Literature/TheMinimumMan'' starts with Anton's suicide preparations being interrupted by an acceptance letter from a prospective employer. Turns out, it's their way of hiring people for a high-risk job -- watching the candidates and making an offer at just the right moment. Later Anton is frequently reminded that he chose the job of an explorer/guinea pig/canary over suicide. The survivors are well-rewarded, though.
* In ''Literature/AnotherNote'', Beyond Birthday (under the pseudonym [[spoiler:Rue Ryuuzaki]]) immolates himself. [[FinalGirl Naomi Misora]] blasts him with the fire extinguisher in the condo where it happened, and gets a neighbor to call 911 before placing BB under arrest [[spoiler:for the murders of three people, including a 13-year-old girl]].
%%* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'':
%%** Katniss, [[spoiler:courtesy of Peeta.]]
%%** A second one in ''Mockingjay'', with [[spoiler:Plutarch]] getting her off the hook for [[spoiler:killing President Coin.]]
* In the first chapter of ''Literature/FatKidRulesTheWorld'' Troy is contemplating jumping in front of a subway train. He imagines how "[[BlackComedy humorous]]" the scene would be considering his size. Curt stops him from doing so when he makes small talk with him, though Troy insists he wasn't going to do it.
* In Creator/CherryWilder's short story "Point of Departure", a side story to the ''Literature/{{Torin}}'' series, a group of people make a suicide pact in despair over and protest against the direction their society is going. Just as they're about to carry it out, a friend arrives with news of the events in the main plotline of the series, and they realize there's still hope for the future and a role for them in it. [[spoiler:One member of the pact, who is old and in ill health, dies anyway.]]
* ''Literature/TheWayOfKings2010'': When Kaladin is made a bridgeman, he keeps getting more and more depressed as he realizes there is no escape. Syl, his SpiritAdviser, leaves him to try and find something to cheer him up, which of course just makes him ''more'' depressed. He goes to Honor Chasm to kill himself and is stepping out into the void when Syl returns... carrying a few leaves of the deadliest poisons in the world. She has no idea what it is, just that he seemed to get more depressed when he lost the leaves. Kaladin throws away the poison but steps away from the chasm a new man.
* ''Literature/StarWarsLostStars'': Ciena tries to kill herself by flying her Star Destroyer into Jakku. Thane prevents her from doing it.
* In ''Literature/AnUnkindnessOfGhosts'', [[spoiler:Giselle attempts suicide by burning down Aster's arboretum with herself in it. She's rescued by Theo, who thought she was Aster. If he'd known who she was, he would have let her die quickly, knowing she's scheduled for a PublicExecution]].
* Russ from ''Literature/AspergerSunset'' impulsively cut his wrist three months ago because of his grief over his parents' deaths. Misty found him in the garage and took him to the Meadow View Mental Health Facility, where he recovered.
* ''Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy'': Bria briefly contemplates suicide looking over the edge of a turbolift on Coruscant and realizing how easy it would be to fall off, then she'd no longer have to suffer from her addiction, before Han pulled her back.
* ''Literature/AirAwakens'': In his BackStory young prince Aldrik tried to kill himself by cutting his veins but his servants burst into his room just in time.
* ''Literature/PilgrennonsChildren'': When [[spoiler:Gamma]] was a child in an abusive mental hospital, she broke out of her room at night, went into the bathroom, and attempted suicide by cutting her wrists with a disposable razor. She was found by a staff member before she lost consciousness.
* ''Literature/TheRoosevelt'': In ''Carry the Ocean'', Jeremey's parents prevent him from seeing his boyfriend Emmet for days. Eventually he becomes convinced that Emmet never really liked him and only continues to text him out of pity, so he decides to commit suicide via car exhaust. He texts Emmet goodbye, then smashes his phone so Emmet won't be able to text back. Emmet shows the texts to his mom, who calls 911. The paramedics arrive just as Jeremey is losing consciousness.
* In ''Literature/{{Sanctuary}}'', Holly stays awake for days, partly because of her huge amounts of homework and partly because of the ghost eater's attacks. When she's too exhausted to study for a biology exam, she's convinced that she'll fail, and because she sees her academic ability as her only redeeming quality, she attempts suicide by overdosing on pills. Theo sees her bent over the toilet surrounded by empty pill packets and runs to fetch the adults. Morgan gives her glasses of warm salt water to make her throw up all the pills. Vinnie decides to keep her at home and put her on SuicideWatch instead of taking her to the hospital for fear that the doctors will return her to her AbusiveParents.
* ''Literature/TheBoyFromAleppoWhoPaintedTheWar'': Not long after the war begins, Yasmine tries to overdose on pills. Adam finds her half-conscious and vomiting. Their father takes her to the hospital, which hasn't yet become severely overcrowded.
* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': [[spoiler:At the very climax of ''Alicization'', Kirito lost his will to live during his JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind moment and attempted to commit suicide, but Eugeo's memory fragment snapped him out of it and convinced him to wake up and fight back.]]
* ''Literature/MeWhoDoveIntoTheHeartOfTheWorld'' has an odd example. After [[spoiler:the death of her aunt Isabelle]], Karen decides to commit suicide by diving to the bottom of the ocean and waiting for her oxygen tank to run out. She passes out, then suddenly wakes up, suffering from MidSuicideRegret. Her tank is almost empty now, and she doesn't have the strength to swim to the surface. Then she sees a beautiful angel swimming towards her, and when she touches it, her whole body feels electrified. The angel takes her hand and lifts her to safety. As she rises, she realizes what actually happened: she was shocked by a jellyfish, which her hypoxic brain saw as an angel, and which is now trying to flee from her as she holds onto it. She lets the jellyfish go and swims the rest of the way to the surface with the last of her strength.
* ''Literature/TheMermaidOfBlackConch'': When Aycayia starts to transform back into a mermaid, she decides to commit suicide by hanging herself with a vine rather than return to the loneliness of the sea. David finds her and cuts her down. When Aycayia wakes up, she asks David to let her die. He doesn't, but he wonders if he made the right decision by saving her.
* ''Literature/{{Rubbernecker}}'': After Patrick solves the murder, he comes home to find [[GoodbyeCruelWorld a note from his mother Sarah that says that things have been 'very difficult' for her, tells him where to find her will, asks for his forgiveness, and tells him to take care of her cat Ollie]]. Confused, Patrick shows the note to Weird Nick, who tells him it's a suicide note. Sarah has told Patrick that she once considered jumping off of Penyfan, so Patrick and Weird Nick drive there. When they arrive, Weird Nick realises that he's still wearing slippers, so Patrick climbs the mountain by himself. He finds Sarah sitting near the summit. She couldn't bring herself to jump, so she decided to sit there until she died of hypothermia. Patrick [[TalkingDownTheSuicide talks her into letting him help her hike back]] instead. Halfway down the mountain they're met by a rescue team called by Weird Nick.
* In ''Literature/SmallPersonsWithWings'', Mellie's parents drink the moonstone elixir, which reveals every AwfulTruth about themselves. The effects of the elixir [[spoiler:combined with Fidius's encouragement]] cause them to decide to jump off the roof of the inn. Hundreds of Parvi Pennati fly up with a pink blanket to catch them, then lift them back onto the roof. Luckily, the elixir wears off a minute later, preventing any further attempts.
* Attempted in ''Literature/DolphinSong''. [[spoiler:The dolphin Shara beaches herself so she can guide her son Speckle, who was killed by a fishing net, to [[{{Heaven}} the great ocean beyond the waves]]. The human Melody finds her half-dead on the beach and uses her towel to keep her wet. Then John finds them and helps Melody carry Shara back into the water. But by that point it's too late, and Shara dies soon after.]]
* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': Part of Tim Linton's backstory includes a little-described incident where he [[DeadlyGas gassed]] the dining hall. [[spoiler:In volume 10, [[ResolvedNoodleIncident we get the full story]]: He came to Kimberly Magic Academy in a really bad headspace due to his AbusiveParents, and when Kimberly seemed just as screwed-up as what he'd escaped from, he gassed the Fellowship as an attempted MurderSuicide. [[BigGood Alvin Godfrey]] waded into the gas, pulled him out, and got his head straightened out, and [[RescueRomance he's been in love with the man ever since]].]]

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* In the manga/light novel version of ''Literature/No6'', [[spoiler:Nezumi]] tackles [[spoiler:Shion]] when he tries to kill himself after [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone shooting a man]]. It's [[spoiler:Nezumi]]'s subsequent breakdown that snaps him out of it.
* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'': William expecting a friend to come watch his death really didn't work out for him.

* Subverted by Creator/ImprovEverywhere as seen in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vsdtCuXS_I youtube video]] where the jumper is about two feet off of the ground but treated as a classic jumper.

* The ''ComicBook/SinCity'' story ''Hell and Back'' kicks off with hero Wallace coming across a woman named Esther about to commit suicide and saving her just in time. Not that he stops her attempt, she ''does'' go off the cliff, but he manages to pull her out of the water and revive her. When Esther is kidnapped, Wallace goes through hell and high water to get her back. In what was possibly the greatest heartrending moment in a surprisingly deep and touching series ("Sin" City or no, these stories each have an Aesop to put any Edutainment show to shame), when he asks her why she jumped, she replies that [[spoiler: "I was lonely."]]
* In an issue of ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl|2000}}'', Cassandra Cain is contemplating her own depression and death wish from on top of a building when she encounters a man who is also looking depressedly out at the city. Apropos of seemingly nothing, Cass declares "Don't do it. Not worth it." Not being aware of her near-superhuman ability to read body language, he is startled enough to leave the rooftop without attempting to jump.
** This incident was likely a CallBack to Cassandra's debut story where she attempted to commit suicide by the same method out of guilt for killing a man at her father's behest, only to be saved by Batman.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': Bruce Banner's tried to kill himself a few times in the past; Hulk will always force a transformation to prevent it, however. Even when Banner finally manages to arrange a successful mercy kill in ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'', he still gets brought back again and again... and then discovers he'll ''always'' come back.

* In the second volume of ''ComicBook/ResidentAlien'', Harry arrives {{Just In Time}} to save [[spoiler: Karen's life]] after she attempted suicide out of grief and desperation.
* Due to overwhelming guilt and generally being unable to cope with being a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent living vampire]], Michael ComicBook/{{Morbius}} has attempted suicide several times but laments that each time someone has stopped him or brought him back.
* Volume 2 of ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' 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]]).
* Somewhat {{Subverted|Trope}} in Avengers Annual issue 10 when ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman'' saves a woman who jumped off the golden gate bridge, only to find out later that it was a PsychicAssistedSuicide.
* In ''ComicBook/TheEternals1985'', Dave Chatterton jumps from a skyscraper. Sersi sees him falling, telekinetically stops him, and explains that she'll only drop him if he can provide a sufficiently good reason. He doesn't.

* In ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'' [[spoiler: Maggie hangs herself after her father and brother die, Glenn gets her down before she dies but that doesn't stop [[AntiHero Abraham]] from trying to shoot her when he thinks she's dead. Luckily Rick stops him and she recovers]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'', [[AntiHero of all people]], managed to pull this off in "Don't Jump", in which he talked to a blonde woman about to jump from his building and arranged for them both to see ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'', after which he took her to the E.R.
-->'''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]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Barracuda}}'': In "Scars", a drunken Raffy attempts to commit SuicideBySea, but is pulled from the water by Maria's servants after he passes out.
* In the first issue of ''ComicBook/ScreamCurseOfCarnage'', Andi throws herself off a bridge since she's lost hope after everyone she ever cared about in her life has died. However, the Scream symbiote has already bonded to her and refuses to let her die.
* Subverted in the Marvel Knights run of ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'': Soap has finally had enough of the crap life keeps dumping on him, and has his gun in his mouth in the bathroom of his usual bar when he's interrupted by Kevin the barman... who angrily tells him to go commit suicide somewhere else so he doesn't have to clean up the blood and brain matter Soap is so inconsiderately going to splatter everywhere. This causes Soap to snap and finally grow a spine and arrest Frank... for all of maybe two pages, after which Frank instantly disarms him and [[spoiler:gives him important advice on knowing when to give up.]] Soap does as he says [[spoiler:and becomes a successful porn star on the West Coast.]]
* Two separate issues of ''ComicBook/CosmoCat'' have the titular hero intervene and save someone from jumping to their death. The second time he does it, Cosmo is shown to have a "Suicide Detector" that he specifically uses to find and stop them.
* ''ComicBook/BlackHammer'': The HenshinHero Gail Gibbons, already worn down from ten years of being [[ShapeshifterModeLock stuck in the form of a child]], decides to end it all after her best friend Mark Markz rejects her romantic advances due to her apparent age and IncompatibleOrientation. She writes a brief SuicideNote and prepares to walk into the invisible death wall surrounding the farm, only for Mark--who found the note--to swoop in and stop her in the nick of time. Mark then convinces Gail to keep on living by pointing out that, even though he doesn't love her the way she wants, she's still his best friend and he can't imagine life without her.

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* Casey from ''Film/MadLove1995'' ends up in a psychiatric hospital after she overdoses on sleeping pills and her parents find her unconscious in the bathroom. Her parents, who don't yet realize she's mentally ill, think she's doing it to get back at them for setting rules.
* In ''Film/TooSoonToLove'', Cathy attempts suicide by running into the ocean. Jim runs after her, holds her head above water, and drags her ashore.

* ''Literature/FoxDemonCultivationManual'': Before the novel starts, Rong Bai got sick of immortality and dispersed his soul, meaning he's SecretlyDying. When Song Ci finds out he goes back in time to prevent Rong Bai dying.

* In ''Literature/TheDoll'', when [[spoiler:Wokulski]] decides to kill himself by standing in a way of an oncoming train, he's pulled to safety at the last second by a [[ChekhovsGunman man he helped once]], to his sorrow. Later, he tells the man to never save any suicidal person again - even though it seems that he didn't try to kill himself again. [[AmbiguousEnding Or maybe he did]].
* The very first ''Literature/{{Raffles}}'' story, "The Ides of March", starts with the narrator, Bunny Manders, on the verge of financial ruin and disgrace; he asks his old friend Raffles for money; when Raffles explains he has none, Bunny attempts to kill himself in front of the other man, at which point Raffles stops him and offers him a job.
* One of Creator/EdMcBain's ''Literature/EightySeventhPrecinct'' crime novels begins with Detective Carella trying to dissuade a woman from committing suicide by jumping off a building. Unfortunately, he fails and she jumps anyway.

* When Jack meets Rose in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', he talks her out of jumping off the ship.
** Spoofed on ''The Adam and Joe Show'': "You won't jump, you're the narrator!" "What if I slip off and dangle a bit?"

* The Singaporean drama film, ''Film/INotStupid'', have Kwok Pin, one of the three elementary-school-age main leads, deciding to jump off an apartment building the night after learning he failed his exam, but just as he's [[BarefootSuicide removing his shoes]] and about to climb over a balcony, a bunch of policemen pursuing some teen drug addicts hiding in the same floor accidentally runs into Kwok Pin, and he gets arrested alongside all the druggies. Leading to this rather awkward exchange between Kwok Pin and one of the policemen.
--> '''Kwok Pin''': Sir, I swear I'm not with the drug dealers!\\
'''Policeman''': Then what are you doing alone at this time of the night, kid?\\
'''Kwok Pin''': ...trying to kill myself, sir.

* ''Film/Interceptor2022''. A flashback scene shows the heroine reported her commanding officer for sexual harassment and became the subject of a sustained hate campaign. After finding her house had been vandalised and sexist threats painted all over the walls, she tries to [[BathSuicide drown herself in the bath]] only to be rescued by her retired veteran father who encourages her to keep fighting. This scene shows her affection for her father right before the BigBad reveals that [[IHaveYourWife he's sent men to take her father hostage]].

* ''Manga/BungouStrayDogs'': Dazai loves suicide, and so his gimmick was to do this (normally getting interrupted by Kunikida or Atsushi) but later he changed his mind - now he wants a lovers' suicide with a beautiful woman, except of course he lacks a woman who's willing to go through with it.

** Sano does this a few times but usually he's saying, [[JerkWithAHeartofGold "If you're going to kill yourself, do it when I'm not around!"]]

* In an issue of ''[[ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2000}} Batgirl]]'', Cassandra Cain is contemplating her own depression and death wish from on top of a building when she encounters a man who is also looking depressedly out at the city. Apropos of seemingly nothing, Cass declares "Don't do it. Not worth it." Not being aware of her near-superhuman ability to read body language, he is startled enough to leave the rooftop without attempting to jump.

* Somewhat [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in Avengers Annual issue 10 when ''ComicBook/{{Spider Woman}}'' saves a woman who jumped off the golden gate bridge, only to find out later that it was a {{Psychic Assisted Suicide}}.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in the Literature/{{Worm}} × VideoGame/{{Dishonored}} crossover fanfic ''Fanfic/AChangeOfPace''. Glory Girl thought Taylor was throwing herself off a building to kill herself because she wasn't in costume, but in truth, she was testing her teleportation powers. They decide to team up afterwards and fight crime.

* [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Robin]] has hanged himself after having a HeroicBSOD [[spoiler:for failing to save Emmeryn]] before Frederick intervenes and cuts the noose in ''FanFic/{{Pretender}}'' when the latter stumbles on him.

* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'':
** Katniss, [[spoiler:courtesy of Peeta.]]
** A second one in ''Mockingjay'', with [[spoiler:Plutarch]] getting her off the hook for [[spoiler:killing President Coin.]]

* In Creator/CherryWilder's short story "Point of Departure", a side story to the Literature/{{Torin}} series, a group of people make a suicide pact in despair over and protest against the direction their society is going. Just as they're about to carry it out, a friend arrives with news of the events in the main plotline of the series, and they realize there's still hope for the future and a role for them in it. [[spoiler:One member of the pact, who is old and in ill health, dies anyway.]]

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Tywin breaking the door in "[[{{Recap/GameOfThronesS2E9Blackwater}} Blackwater]]" stops Cersei from proceeding in suicide with her son Tommen, because she was convinced the city would fall to the unflappable Stannis.

* The ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "[[{{Recap/TorchwoodS2E8ADayInTheDeath}} A Day in the Death]]" features Dr. Owen Harper telling the story of the past few days to a young woman while trying to talk her out of killing herself. "The past few days" happen to include [[spoiler: Owen coming to terms with his undeath]].

*** In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E19HardTime}} Hard Time]]", O'Brien nearly kills himself after being given false memories of a twenty-year prison sentence in which he killed his imaginary cellmate. Bashir intervenes, convincing him that he is still a good man.

*** Back when Worf was still chief of security on the ''Enterprise'', he tried to commit ritual suicide with a Klingon dagger in his quarters, as he was afraid he was losing his mind and preferred death to dishonor. Luckily, Troi had noticed Worf suddenly leaving the Bridge and followed him to his quarters where she talked him out of it. ("[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E17NightTerrors}} Night Terrors]]").
*** 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.

** In "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E11Doomed}} Doomed]]", Spike is about to fling himself onto a stake in Xander's basement when Xander and Willow stop him, leading to some very pithy Whedon dialogue. Specifically, Spike was wearing a shirt he borrowed from Xander, and Xander didn't want Spike to ruin it by dusting himself.
** In "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E10Amends}} Amends]]" Buffy talks Angel out of killing himself (with some help from a DeusExMachina).

--> '''Beck:''' [[spoiler:I raped you. I'm so sorry. ''({{beat}}, then he jumps)'']]

* In the new show ''FlashForward'', [[spoiler: Bryce was about to commit suicide when he (and the rest of the world) blacked out. He considers the visions of the future he got a gift that stops him from trying again.]]

* In ''Theatre/{{Heathers}}'', after Heather M receives an unjustified {{Reason You Suck Speech}} from the entire school for simply having suicidal thoughts in "Shine A Light (Reprise)", she very nearly offs herself via pills. However, Veronica thankfully saves her at the last minute and convinces her that it's not worth ending her life over. They share a much-needed hug at the end.

** Parodied in ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories''; after losing against the heroes, HighlyVisibleNinja Yukimaru decides to perform suicide to atone for her failure...and just freezes up. It takes the gang time to realize that deep down, she doesn't really want to die, and Adell resigns himself to talking her out of it. This becomes a {{RunningGag}}.

* In ''Videogame/BlackKnightSword'', the player character is about to hang himself when he is drawn into the story and becomes the Black Knight. [[spoiler:In the True Ending, he returns to finish it.]]

* An unfortunate example in ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo'' occurs during a bad end when Reiji successfully stops [[spoiler:Orihime]] from killing herself, but then they're both attacked by the serial killer and killed. The suicidal person is killed quite gruesomely and you can't help but feel it probably would have been better if she had succeeded.

* In ''WebComic/DocRat'', Flopsy Jaegermond [[https://crosstimecafe.com/speedreader/doc_rat.html#1307 tried to jump off a cliff]] during a weekend getaway with Ben and some friends out of guilt for having hunted and eaten his wife Jazmyn's previous husband. Ben stopped him, and the two ended up tumbling down the sloped side of the mountain, fighting the whole way down. Ben was ultimately able to talk him down.

* ''Roleplay/ArchipelagoExodus''' EmotionlessGirl Rie Nepas tries to kill herself after the death of her [[HeterosexualLifePartners Heterosexual Life Partner]]. She [[BurialInSpace rigs his ashes to a rocket]] and quietly stands inside the blast radius, only to be rescued by her on-again-off-again friend Natalie.

* Another urban legend (one that's ridiculous since it's the type that no one could possibly know about if it really had happened): A man's business is about to go under or something, and his last hope is a phone call that's supposed to come by five o'clock and will tell him he's not bankrupt after all. Five o'clock comes and goes, and no phone call, so he goes up to the roof and jumps off... [[{{Narm}} and as he passes his own window, the phone is ringing]].

* ''Totally Completely Fine'': The plot of this series consists of a woman named Vivian inheriting a house from
her grandfather. It turns out that the house is by a cliff which is a common suicide site, and thus, Vivian needs to regularly talk people out of jumping to their deaths.

* ''Film/{{Interceptor}}''. A flashback scene shows the heroine reported her commanding officer for sexual harassment and became the subject of a sustained hate campaign. After finding her house had been vandalised and sexist threats painted all over the walls, she tries to [[BathSuicide drown herself in the bath]] only to be rescued by her retired veteran father who encourages her to keep fighting. This scene shows her affection for her father right before the BigBad reveals that [[IHaveYourWife he's sent men to take her father hostage]].

* The pre-title sequence of ''Film/{{Lou}}'' has the title character preparing to commit suicide. As she's sitting with a rifle under her chin, we flashback a few hours showing the kidnapping of her neighbour's daughter that interrupts her suicide attempt when the mother bursts in on her wanting to use the phone to call the sheriff.

Compare BungledSuicide, where the suicidee succeeds in carrying out the deed...but doesn't die. Compare HappilyFailedSuicide, where the suicidee is ''happy'' that they failed or were interrupted. Contrast with MistakenForSuicidal, where a character believes they're saving someone but in reality, the "suicidee" wasn't actually suicidal.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10270643/1/My-Time-Of-Dying My Time Of Dying]]'' starts with Scourge's attempted suicide, and Sonic stops him. Scourge behaves suicidally several times during the fanfic.
* ''Fanfic/TheChildOfLove'': In chapter 5 [[spoiler:Asuka tried to kill herself with a bottle of sleeping pills. Shinji found her and called Misato, and Asuka was hospitalized.]] As the meds were keeping her alive, [[spoiler:her daughter telepathically]] talked to her to ensure that she did not GoIntoTheLight.

* ''Manga/{{Evangelion 303}}'': In chapter 12 [[spoiler:Asuka]] tried to commit suicide. However, Shinji found her JustInTime and managed to stop her. [[spoiler:Subverted since, even though she had decided to kill herself, she had spent the last five hours unable to go through with it. In fact, her choice of words in her suicide note (specifically, ending it with "auf wiedersehen", which means "until we meet again") suggested that she wanted him to stop her. [[DoubleSubversion But she might have eventually shot herself if he had not shown up or if he left]].]]

* ''Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs'': After [[spoiler:running away, Asuka lay down on a tube and slit her wrists.]] However several Section-2 agents found her in time to save her life.
* In ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'', Ebony is in the process of slitting her wrists over [[spoiler: Draco]]'s death when "Snap" and "Loopin" peep on her.

* [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Robin]] has hanged himself after having a HeroicBSOD [[spoiler: for failing to save Emmeryn]] before Frederick intervenes and cuts the noose in ''FanFic/{{Pretender}}'' when the latter stumbles on him.
* ''FanFic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness'':

** In Act III chapter 1, upon discovering that Tsukune's [[SuperpoweredEvilSide inner ghoul]] had exploited her newfound feelings for Tsukune to dupe her into completing the transfusion and giving it enough power to [[SplitPersonalityTakeover take over Tsukune's body completely]], Kokoa is so devastated by and ashamed of her mistake and letting [[LoveMakesYouDumb her feelings for Tsukune blind her to the ghoul's manipulations]] that she tries to jump into the ocean, only to be saved by Gin, who talks some sense into her. After the ghoul is suppressed by the Holy Lock, Kokoa swears fealty to Tsukune in [[TheAtoner penance]].
* In ''Fanfic/TouhouIbunshu'', after landing in Gensokyo and losing the last Lunarian child [[spoiler: to Remilia]], Reisen is so full of hate and guilt that she tries to eat her gun. [[LittleMissConArtist Te]][[TheBarnum wi]], of all people, barely manages to hold her off until she's convinced not to go through with it. In the same series, when Youmu realizes she's been cruelly tricked [[spoiler: by Yukari]] to almost destroy Gensokyo on the pretense of helping Yuyuko, she almost kills herself until talked out of it by her master.
* In ''[[Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX Gensokyo 20XXIV]]'', we have this occur at a couple of instances. The first time is when Yukari is holding a razor blade, crying as she is contemplating ending her life (to, in her mind, appease the ghosts of those who've passed away) when Satori takes notice of this and convinces her otherwise. The second time Chen attempts to drown herself and she would have died otherwise if Yukari hadn't pulled her out and the others resuscitated her.
* [[Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaOccupationalHazards Twintails]] has a moment where, following the evacuation of his Stable [[spoiler: and [[HeroicSacrifice the death of his motherly figure Gamma Ray]],]] he very nearly empties a full clip of .303 rounds into his head. Minty is able to intervene mere moments before the trigger is pulled, and the automatic rifle discharges harmlessly into the air.
** [[Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaEmptyQuiver Crash Dive]] admits to being ready to throw herself off of a seaside cliff in her full heavy armor to end it all after her decade of suffering. Thankfully for her sake, the Valkyrie crash-lands just then.
* In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/964169/1/Destiny Destiny]] After [[Anime/DigimonTamers Juri’s]] father, stepmother, and half-brother all die in a car accident, her heavy depression from the deaths of Leomon and her biological mother returns in full force and she once again attempts to end her own suffering. Takato and Rika come to her rescue and bring her to the hospital just in time.

* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the Literature/{{Worm}} x Videogame/{{Dishonored}} crossover fanfic, ''Fanfic/AChangeOfPace''. Glory Girl thought Taylor was throwing herself off a building to kill herself because she wasn't in costume, but in truth, she was testing her teleportation powers. They decide to team up afterwards and fight crime.
* ''Fanfic/SplitSecondMyLittlePony's'' sequel, ''An Eternity Divided'' has Sparkle, the resident Death Goddess, able to feel the approaching death of a soul, including suicides. She scared a mare who was about to jump off a bridge out of killing herself.
* ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'': Filthy Rich started to become depressed because his wife Golden Tiara is in the insane asylum and he's slowly growing apart from his daughter Diamond Tiara. The last straw came when during the Day of Discord, he lost control and raped several copies of his wife. Overcome with guilt and shame, he attempted suicide repeatedly with various methods like hanging and overdosing. Every time, his servants (especially his maid Shiny Star, who was in love with him) stopped him, until he stopped trying and learned to appreciate his life.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/AsylumDaemonOfDecay'' Fluttershy has crippling social anxiety and is in an asylum. During Show And Tell one day, she was convinced to bring one of her birds. The bird was startled and a pony hit it in panic, causing the bird to die of its injuries. Fluttershy felt so terrible over the incident that she tried to kill herself, though she was caught before she bled out.
* At the beginning of ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'', Asuka was in a coma after having attempted to kill herself. She was found naked and severely malnourished in a bathtub full of filth by Section-2 agents. Her doctor said that she’d been starving and they had to put her under to keep her from hurting herself.
* The ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' fanfic ''Fanfic/DarknessBurning'' takes place in an AlternateUniverse where Elsa and Anna's parents didn't die. After reaching adulthood, Anna ended up married and moved to another kingdom, while Elsa stayed stuck in the same depressed state she was prior to her IAmBecomingSong. Elsa attempted suicide but was found by her parents. Afterwards, Anna came back to see her, and Elsa wasn't allowed to be alone for weeks. [[spoiler:After learning the reason for her sister's depression, Anna [[CallingTheOldManOut calls out her parents]] for causing it]].
* In ''[[https://pastebin.com/5xvRv7Ck A Dark House Inadequate]]'', Lincoln's second suicide attempt falls under this as his father is able to get him to the hospital in time, though it's stated to have been a near thing.
* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/5710513/chapters/13155583 Renegades]]'', while trying to restore Sara's soul Laurel is attacked by astral parasites who prey on her greatest insecurities/regrets. One of them reminds her of the (until now unknown) night she contemplated suicide and encourages her to finish the job. Oliver and Nyssa manage to reach her and convince her what she's seeing isn't real. Laurel later confirms it was a real memory and when she was contemplating it, she got a (very fortuitous) call from Thea, who missed her and wanted to have dinner together. This was enough to stop her, and the unsaid implication is that Thea has no idea what she was considering when she called.
* This is unintentionally done in chapter 14 of ''Fanfic/TheUtoniumTrials''. Mojo Jojo (who is also suffering from dementia) lives homeless in a junkyard after his lab is destroyed by a monster. After being defeated by the Powerpuff Girls and realizing that he's just a shadow of his former self, he tries to shoot himself. Buttercup mistakingly thinks Mojo's going to shoot her and so she attacks him first, inadvertently saving his life.
* After hitting her DespairEventHorizon in ''Fanfic/NowThatYoureBleeding'', Elsa tries to jump to her death. Marshmallow won't allow it and holds her back.
* ''Fanfic/ApprenticeAndPregnant'': [[spoiler:Ivypaw's]] mother [[spoiler:Applefur]] suffers from mental illness. If she doesn't eat her medicine daily, she starts hallucinating. When she was pregnant with her daughter she tried to drown herself and was narrowly helped by Swallow Star.
* In chapter 10 of ''[[Fanfic/TheirBond Lotus Jewel]]'', Queen Zelda ran away from the castle and attempted suicide. She cut herself with her sword but was saved when Impa found her before she could bleed out.
* ''Fanfic/{{Lost}}'':
** After her son seemingly dies in a shipwreck, Delia loses her will to live. Luckily, Professor Oak notices where her mind is going and takes away her bottle of tranquilizers.
** Professor Oak himself once tried to kill himself after his son and daughter-in-law both died in a car crash. He was saved by his assistant Spencer Hale.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/20899/1/Shattered-Soul Shattered Soul]]'' is a ''Pokémon'' one-shot where James tries to kill himself but is stopped by Jessie.

* ''Fanfic/RWBYScars'': [[spoiler:Weiss]] stabbed herself in the stomach but survived because her normally-distant mother decided to check up on her for once.

* ''Fanfic/LettingGoOfHate'' starts with Zira's death scene. She doesn't want to die, however, she refuses to take Kiara's paw. Zira ponders over her situation and wonders if she should just fall, now that her family has betrayed her and her only loyal child has died. Before Zira can lose her grip, Kiara helps her.
* ''Webcomic/ThePowerpuffGirlsReImagined'': Professor Utonium is stopped from [[AteHisGun shooting himself]] after [[MurderSuicide shooting his pet Jojo]] when the Powerpuff Girls are born.
* ''Fanfic/TheSevenMisfortunesOfLadyFortune'': Adrien almost slits his own throat after learning that Marinette, who was shot to death a few months ago, was actually Ladybug. Fortunately, Plagg tells him she's actually alive before he can.
* At the end of fernwithy's ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' story ''Fanfic/{{The End of the World|FernWithy}}'', [[ForegoneConclusion after the Capitol kills his girlfriend (on the heels of killing his mother and brother)]], between that, all the death he saw in the 2nd Quarter Quell [[ThisIsGonnaSuck and the life of mentoring ahead of him]], Haymitch is prepared to hang himself from an old tree that was once used as a gallows, when he hears screaming and sees a friend being whipped in the distance, in the town square. This snaps him out of it, and he sets the tree on fire instead, to make sure he isn't tempted again and to distract the peacekeepers from their whipping.
* In the third ''Fanfic/PokemonLightAU'' story, Leon's brother Hop stops him from stabbing himself.
* ''Fanfic/AnArmAndALeg'': Elsa didn't move out of the way of Hans' sword because she felt that she deserved to die. She's saved by Anna's attempt at a HeroicSacrifice.
* In Pokemon fanfic ''Fanfic/OlivineRomance'' Jasmine's life is thrown into chaos and despair. She's lost her Pokemon and her job, her love life lies in tatters, she's betrayed by everyone she trusted, is rejected by her own mother, and mentally breaks down after realizing her own monstrous fantasies. She goes to the bay bridge to throw herself off. There is no help coming. [[spoiler:She finds Ethan about to throw himself into the waves. The chance meeting saves them both.]]
* In ''Fanfic/CindersAndAshesTheChroniclesOfKamenRiderDante'', 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.

* In ''Fanfic/MistakeSherlockHolmes'', a lookout Holmes forgot to check for scores a lucky shot, ending with Watson hitting the pavement and ending up in critical condition. After Lestrade arrives to take away the criminal, he turns to go, despite his misgivings about leaving Holmes alone. However, he sees Holmes eyeing the doctor's revolver and fortunately puts two and two together before he can leave. He storms back in, yelling at the detective not even to think about it. Luckily, Holmes listens.
* In '"Fanfic/AViciousVengefulSea'', Theon tries to kill himself on a livestream after [[SerialKiller Ramsay's]] trial, since he doesn't think he'll ever recover. Thankfully, Jeyne finds him unconscious and calls the hospital.

* In the season sixth premiere of ''Series/TheShield'', [[spoiler:upon learning that he killed his friend Lem over a misunderstanding, Shane is so guilt-ridden that he plans to [[AteHisGun stick his gun in his mouth]], only to be interrupted by the arrival of his fiancee and their child. Unfortunately, [[ForWantOfANail this ends up leading to more tragedies]]]].

* A comedic version appears in ''Film/{{Airplane}}''; Ted Striker drives two people to suicide with his stories about his ex-girlfriend, and a third is only saved at the last second when Striker gets called away mid-story. The third, who was about to light the gas he had covered himself in with a lighter when Striker was called away, put out his lighter and sighed in relief. Unfortunately, seconds later, he spontaneously combusted.

* In Alan Ayckbourn's ''Absurd Person Singular'', Eva spends the entirety of the second act attempting to kill herself in various ways, only to get interrupted each time. HilarityEnsues.

** In a very early GoldenAge ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comic, Superman saved the life of a man who jumped off a bridge. He turned out to be a former champion boxer whose career had fallen apart when his crooked agent drugged him so that he would lose a title bout. Superman then spent the rest of the issue helping the man win back his title (And getting Clark Kent a promotion for his articles predicting the boxer's comeback).