History Main / BathSuicide

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* In ''Series/{{Westworld}}'', when Juliet, the Man in Black's wife, views the record of his atrocities committed while he was playing a "black hat" in the park, she commits suicide by filling her mansion bathtub and slitting her wrists. The water leaking over the sides of the tub alerts the {{MiB}} to go into the bathroom.

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!!As this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware.
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* In Creator/JessFranco's ''Film/{{Venus In Furs|Franco1969}}'', Olga dies by slitting her wrists in the bath.

* Used as a suicide attempt in Creator/ChristopherPike's ''Road To Nowhere''.

* In ''The Brightest Star in the Sky'' by Creator/MarianKeyes, Matt attempts this, but his neighbors manage to realize what was happening and rush him to the hospital just in time.
* ''Brotherhood of the Rose'', 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 YA book ''Hold Still'', [[spoiler:Ingrid]] kills herself this way. The book even discusses the relative difficulty of such a suicide method.

* YA book ''The Space Between'' has Truman survive this, although not without an NDE in which he meets the main character.

* In the ''Manga/{{Shiki}}'' manga, [[spoiler: Seishin is shown to have attempted this in college. It didn't work.]]

* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': In the climax of season 3, Gloria Hodge tries to kill Bree by slashing her wrists in a hot bath so [[NeverSuicide it will look like a suicide]], and she's prevented from doing it by her son JustInTime.

* {{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. Wiki/ThatOtherWiki has more [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Marat here]].

* ''Series/ForeverKnight''. The episode "Last Act", has what appears to be a PsychoShowerMurderParody with the woman taking a shower approached by an unknown menace, but when the curtain's pulled back she just laughs as if she knows them. Then her arm is grabbed and her wrist slashed with a scalpel to [[NeverSuicide make it look like she killed herself]].

A DeathTrope, '''so be prepared for {{Spoiler}}s'''. Sometimes a result of being DrivenToSuicide, and a subtrope of DeadlyBath. Not to be confused with [[ElectrifiedBathtub another popular way to lose your life in a bathtub]].

* In ''Series/TheBorgias'', [[spoiler:Cardinal Verscucci]] kills himself this way when on the run from the Borgias after setting fire to their finances in vengeance for being ousted from the College of Cardinals.

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

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

* Several people die this way in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', 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.]]

* [[spoiler: Stan Uris]] of ''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.]]

* [[spoiler:Monsignor[=/=]Cardinal Howard]] commits suicide once the horrors of Briarcliff is revealed to the public in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum''.

* ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy'': The series opens with Hannah's graphic suicide (since edited by Netflix to tone down) by this means. Her parents are traumatized when they discover her body.

* In ''Series/OneTreeHill'', [[spoiler:Alex]] attempts suicide this way, but [[spoiler:Julian]] gets there in time.
* [[spoiler:Monsignor[=/=]Cardinal Howard]] commits suicide once the horrors of Briarcliff is revealed to the public in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum''.

* In ''Series/TheBorgias'', [[spoiler:Cardinal Verscucci]] kills himself this way when on the run from the Borgias after setting fire to their finances in vengeance for being ousted from the College of Cardinals.
* 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.
* In ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', [[spoiler:[[{{Gayngst}} Thomas Barrow]] ]] attempts suicide this way. He is found in time, however, and survives.
* ''Series/DarkDesire'': Brenda is found with her wrist slit in the bath. It's theorized that she was really murdered, with it made to appear like a suicide. [[spoiler:However, then it's revealed she really did kill herself.]]
* In ''Series/{{Westworld}}'', when Juliet, the Man in Black's wife, views the record of his atrocities committed while he was playing a "black hat" in the park, she commits suicide by filling her mansion bathtub and slitting her wrists. The water leaking over the sides of the tub alerts the {{MiB}} to go into the bathroom.

* Implied in the video to "Everytime" by Music/BritneySpears, before the AllJustADream ending (which was apparently the result of ExecutiveMeddling).

* "Red Water" by Music/{{Rehab}}.
* "The War on Drugs" by Music/BarenakedLadies is about suicide in general, but also focuses on one particular character in the first half of the song:
-->In the dream I refuse to have
-->She falls asleep in a lukewarm bath
-->We're left to deal with the aftermath again

* Shown at the end of the music video for the Music/{{Alpha Wolf}} song "Restricted (R18+)" where the woman the video focused on is shown lifeless inside a bath filled with her own blood after killing her father.

* If you work every day until day 4 in VideoGame/OneChance, [[spoiler:your wife will do this]].

* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny pretends to drown in Elmer's bathtub in "Elmer's Pet Rabbit" (1940).

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* Kei Kishimoto from ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'' does this before the series took place. When she comes back to life, you can see a flashback of it in episode 6.

* In ''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]].
* Several people die this way in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', 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.]]

* Ryouta Sakamoto's mother in ''Manga/{{Btooom}}'' attempted to kill herself by slitting her wrist in the bathtub when the full horror of the fact she basically sold off her son to die in a DeadlyGame hit her.
* 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.]]
* In Part 8 of ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'', 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.

* ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' has Ebony jumping into the bathtub after slitting her wrists and getting the blood all over her clothes. She takes a [[RougeAnglesOfSatin steak]] and contemplates sticking it into her heart to kill herself.

* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': In "A Throne of Bayonets" Asuka tried to commit suicide by sitting on her apartment's bathtub and slitting her wrists after learning about [[spoiler:her mother's execution.]] When several of her friends discussed that episode, they were afraid that she'd attempt to bath suicide again unless they were capable of helping her.
* ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'': Mentioned. When Asuka was about to have a bath, she spent a while staring at the tube because it reminded her that she sat in a bathtub and slit her wrists during a breakdown once upon a time.

* In chapter ten of ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'', it’s revealed that Shinji attempted this in the past because he believed Asuka hated him.

* [[spoiler:Arvid]] does this in ''Film/SwingKids''.

* 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.
* Happens in the opening scene of Sofia Coppola's 1999 hit film ''Literature/TheVirginSuicides''.
* [[spoiler:The protagonist's sister]] kills herself in a bath in ''Film/SympathyForMrVengeance''.

* 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]].
* DoubleSubverted in the Finnish movie ''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.
* 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.
* 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.

* 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.
* 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.
* 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.]]
* In ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'', it's shown that Swan was about to do this when he was offered his DealWithTheDevil.
* Lester tries this in ''Film/SaveMe''. Mark and the others find him unconscious and rush him to the hospital.

* In ''Film/LonelyHearts'' (2006), the suicide of a woman is staged and the police find her in a bathtub full of her blood.
* ''Film/{{Curfew}}'': This is combined with InterruptedSuicide. Richie has gotten in the tub and sliced a wrist, and there's already a fair amount of blood turning the water pink when his sister calls, needing an emergency babysitter on short notice. He manages to bind up his wound and leave.
* In ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'', [[spoiler:Gianna D'Antonio]] opts for this when John comes to kill her, saying that she lived on her own terms and [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled will die on her own terms as well]]. Zig-zagged when she falls unconscious and John [[BoomHeadshot shoots her in the head]], since dying by her own hand would have been a mortal sin in her religion.
* In ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain'', while investigating the town of Piedmont, Stone discovers a man who, quite calmly, leaned over a bathtub and held his own head underwater. Stone looks at this, and says, incredulously, "I wouldn't believe someone could commit suicide like that."
* ''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.
* Sam from ''Film/AboutScout'' attempts suicide by cutting his wrist in the bathtub while his mother pounds on the bathroom door.
* ''Film/TheSkeletonTwins'': Milo attempts this at the start of the movie.
* ''Film/InTheFade'': Distraught over the deaths of her husband and son, Katja attempts this.

* 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 Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{It}}'', this is how [[spoiler: the adult Stanley Uris]] kills himself when he learns that the title EldritchAbomination has returned.
* 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.
* One character midway through ''Literature/OnAPaleHorse'' kills himself this way, when Zane is still getting used to his role as TheGrimReaper.
* Used as a suicide attempt in Creator/ChristopherPike's ''Road To Nowhere''.
* In ''Literature/TheGirlWhoWouldBeKing'', Lola attempts suicide in a bath but fails because of her HealingFactor.
* In ''Literature/CaptainVorpatrilsAlliance'', the two women on the run from Jackson's Whole mercenaries [[DiscussedTrope discuss]] this as a method of avoiding capture.

* ''Brotherhood of the Rose'', by David Morrell. A retirement village for ex-spies has a high suicide rate, to the distress of the man who runs the place. He notes that some of the victims appear to have been comparing notes on how to do so, as there's been a lot of bath suicides recently. Several of the victims drink heavily to dull the pain but end up passing out and drowning before they bleed to death.
* ''Literature/TheSilerianTrilogy'': Borall slits his wrists in the bath rather than be punished for inadvertently giving state secrets to the rebels.
* YA book ''The Space Between'' has Truman survive this, although not without an NDE in which he meets the main character.