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Author: Astaroth

Feb 17th 2014 at 1:16:47 PM

* In ''Literature/DivineComedy'', Dante portrays the souls of the suicidal as residing in the 7th circle of Hell, reserved for the violent. For committing violence against themselves, they have their bodies entombed in oak trees or strewn across thorny bushes and are feasted upon by demonic harpies, and for rejecting God's gifts, they will be denied the chance to regain their human forms come the Day of Judgement.

* In ''{{Arcanum}}'', the elves of Qintarra are horrified by a member of their community committing suicide, believing it to be an abomination against nature that will deny his soul any chance of reincarnation.

* Played with in ''Film/{{Constantine}}''. The title character has been assigned a place in Hell due to a failed suicide attempt during his childhood, a fact which he has spent his life trying to correct. At the end of the film, however, he decides to commit suicide again, and [[HeroicSacrifice ends up saving the world because of it]] (the Devil comes to claim his soul personally, and [[VillainousRescue ends up dismantling the Big Bad's plan in the process]]). This, plus his negotiating with the Devil to have another damned soul (also a suicide) released from Hell, is deemed heroic enough to allow him to enter Heaven.

Edit: Arcanum's a videogame, not a film