History Main / BungledSuicide

* "Fenibut" by neksyusha[[labelnote:*]]who is a girl, though she sings from the perspective of males in a few of her songs[[/labelnote]] is about a young man who tries to overdose by [[SuicideByPills downing two packs of the drug Phenibut]] and is thinking about how his mom will find him dead in the bathtub. When she does find him, it's revealed that he accidentally downed laxatives instead.

It may be because they possess [[WhoWantsToLiveForever some kind of immortality]], or perhaps they used a method that wasn't guaranteed to be deadly and got lucky.[[note]]Or [[FateWorseThanDeath unlucky.]][[/note]] People who are for some reason physically unable to die usually [[ICannotSelfTerminate cannot kill themselves]] no matter how hard they try. If done well, this trope can be either [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments touching]] or {{tear|Jerker}}jerking... and if done badly, it can just seem like the writers didn't have the guts to kill a character off. Occasionally it is used as a form of SuicideAsComedy, with the [[BlackComedy morbid humor]] being found in how the suicide attempt fails.

It may be because they possess [[WhoWantsToLiveForever some kind of immortality]], or perhaps they used a method that wasn't guaranteed to be deadly and got lucky.[[note]]Or [[FateWorseThanDeath unlucky.]][[/note]] People who are for some reason physically unable to die usually [[ICannotSelfTerminate cannot kill themselves]] no matter how hard they try. If done well, this trope can be either [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments touching]] or {{tear|Jerker}}jerking... and if done badly, it can just seem like the writers didn't have the guts to kill a character off. Occasionally it is used as a form of SuicideAsComedy, with the morbid humor being found in how the suicide attempt fails.

It may be because they possess [[WhoWantsToLiveForever some kind of immortality]], or perhaps they used a method that wasn't guaranteed to be deadly and got lucky.[[note]]Or [[FateWorseThanDeath unlucky.]][[/note]] People who are for some reason physically unable to die usually [[ICannotSelfTerminate cannot kill themselves]] no matter how hard they try. If done well, this trope can be either [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments touching]] or {{tear|Jerker}}jerking... and if done badly, it can just seem like the writers didn't have the guts to kill a character off. Occasionally it's PlayedForLaughs as a form of BlackComedy.

* ''Rosianna Rabbit'' had its first strip consist of a [[SuicideAsComedy suicide joke]] where Rosianna tries to jump off a building to her death due to being unable to take the humiliation of people laughing at her after she [[SplittingPants tore her panties]] bending over to pick up some money she found. She instead is left hanging from a corner of the building by her panties, resulting in more people laughing at her exposed butt.

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-->Mom runs to check the apartment\\
At the same time, she shouts that she brought up a moron\\
"Wake up motherfucker\\
You ate two packs of Bisacodyl"\\

* "Fenibut" by neksyusha[[labelnote:*]]who is a girl, though she sings from the perspective of males in a few of her songs[[/labelnote]] is about a young man who tries to overdose by downing two packs of the drug Phenibut and is thinking about how his mom will find him dead in the bathtub. When she does find him, it's revealed that he accidentally downed laxatives instead.

* "Fenibut" by neksyusha[[labelnote:*]]who is a girl, though she sings from the perspective of males in a few of her songs[[/labelnote]] is about a young man who tries to overdose by downing two packs of Fenibut and is thinking about how his mom will find him dead in the bathtub. When she does find him, it's revealed that he accidentally downed laxatives instead.

It may be because they possess [[WhoWantsToLiveForever some kind of immortality]], or perhaps they used a method that wasn't guaranteed to be deadly and got lucky. People who are for some reason physically unable to die usually [[ICannotSelfTerminate cannot kill themselves]] no matter how hard they try. If done well, this trope can be either [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments touching]] or {{tear|Jerker}}jerking... and if done badly, it can just seem like the writers didn't have the guts to kill a character off. Occasionally it's PlayedForLaughs as a form of BlackComedy.

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Please note: Failed suicide attempts are sometimes written off as "cry for help" or "wanting attention", but they're not. Any suicide attempt, no matter how ambivalent or survivable, should be treated as a genuine attempt to die and a sign that something has gone seriously wrong with that person's life or mental health. Worse still is assuming that a failed attempt means the person doesn't actually want to die and that you can leave them alone. Any suicide attempt demands intervention.

* Neutral Milk Hotel's "Three Peaches", in a [[JustForPun similar vein]]:

[[quoteright:350:[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E1TreehouseOfHorrorXIV https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/moerope.png]]]]

* What happens to Aeka in ''VisualNovel/YumeMiruKusuri'' if you aren't on her path (or if you get her bad ending). She survives, and spends the rest of her life comatose in the hospital.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[WhyWontYouDie If I knew this would take so long, I'd have put on the TV.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[WhyWontYouDie Why does this take so long?]]]]

** It became even HarsherInHindsight when singer Dave Gahan attempted suicide the same way a few years later. See Real Life.