History Main / MurderBySuicide

* In M. Night Shyamalan's ''Film/TheHappening'', people are committing suicide in vast numbers under mysterious circumstances. The audience never gets to know the actual cause of the mass suicides, but speculation about it is sprinkled throughout the film (radiation fallout, a plague, etc.) and some have even spread their own WildMassGuessing entries.

* Cases of people playing RussianRoulette that result in death have been charged as murder even if the person who died was the one pulling the trigger; on the grounds that willingly participating demonstrates a depraved indifference to human life.

* In ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'', it turns out that while [[spoiler:Yomi Hellsmile is responsible for sending Yakou Furio to his death by SuicideAttack on Dr. Huesca in Chapter 4]], it would not have happened otherwise [[spoiler:had [[BigBad Makoto Kagutsuchi]] not introduced Fink the Slaughter Artist to Yakou in the first place, as it was Fink who gave Yakou the means to cover up his involvement in Dr. Huesca in the first place. Since Yakou would not have otherwise followed through with his plan without the means to cover up his involvement, Makoto is ultimately the one responsible for leading Yakou into his SuicideAttack, and not Yomi.]]

* In ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'', it turns out that while [[spoiler:Yomi Hellsmile is responsible for sending Yakou Furio to his death by SuicideAttack on Dr. Huesca in Chapter 4]], it would not have happened otherwise [[spoiler:had [[BigBad Makoto Kagutsuchi]] not introduced Fink the Slaughter Artist to Yakou in the first place, as it was Fink who gave Yakou the means to cover up his involvement in Dr. Huesca in the first place. Since Yakou would not have otherwise followed through with his plan in the first place, Makoto is ultimately the one responsible for leading Yakou into his SuicideAttack, and not Yomi.]]

* In ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'', it turns out that while [[spoiler:Yomi Hellsmile is responsible for sending Yakou Furio to his death by SuicideAttack on Dr. Huesca in Chapter 4]], it would not have happened otherwise [[spiiler:had [[BigBad Makoto Kagutsuchi]] not introduced Fink the Slaughter Artist to Yakou in the first place, as it was Fink who gave Yakou the means to cover up his involvement in Dr. Huesca in the first place. Since Yakou would not have otherwise followed through with his plan in the first place, Makoto is ultimately the one responsible for leading Yakou into his SuicideAttack, and not Yomi.]]

* In ''Film/{{Shooter}}'' the antagonists employ a device that, when strapped to a victims arm, uses a series of pulleys to force the victim to put a gun against their head and pull the trigger, literally physically forcing them to kill themselves (see it [[https://youtu.be/huOZPQ6Hl2c?t=56 here]]).
* ''Film/HardCandy'' has Hayley do this to Jeff, an ephebophile and sexual predator, at the end. She drugs him and puts him through hours of psychological torture in revenge for the death of one of his victims, and then tells him if he kills himself she'll get rid of the evidence so he can keep his reputation intact. [[spoiler:She lied.]]

This is an inversion of SuicideByAssassin and SuicideByCop, where the victim wants to die but [[ICannotSelfTerminate needs someone else]] to kill them for them -- basically Suicide by Murder. See also LeaveBehindAPistol, when they're allowed to kill themselves to escape punishment or retain their dignity. StopHittingYourself, taken to the logical extreme, would be a very literal version of ''making'' someone kill themselves. It becomes PsychicAssistedSuicide if the victim is forced to kill themselves via supernatural means. May be performed by PeoplePuppets.

This is an inversion of SuicideByAssassin and SuicideByCop, where the victim wants to die but [[ICannotSelfTerminate needs someone else]] to kill them for them -- basically Suicide by Murder. See also LeaveBehindAPistol, when they're allowed to kill themselves to escape punishment or retain their dignity. StopHittingYourself, taken to the logical extreme, would be a very literal version of ''making'' someone kill themselves. May be performed by PeoplePuppets.

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Conrad_Roy death of Conrad Roy]] was an example of this, in which his girlfriend - Michelle Carter - sent him text messages encouraging or commanding him to kill himself, knowing that he had a history of mental illness. During his (sadly soon-to-be completed) suicide attempt, he called her, looking for reassurance, and she commanded him to go back and finish the attempt; the courts would later find her responsible for his death and she was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

* Cults that commit mass suicide might fall under this. The mass suicide of Jim Jones' People's Temple congregation in Guyana would be a RealLife example -- aside from the manipulations of a very charismatic cult leader (and his warnings -- possibly with some truth, as visiting U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan was recently killed by Jones' men there -- that their "enemies" were about to invade the commune), there were some members who did try to sneak away rather than drink the poisoned Kool-Aid (or rather, [[MemeticMutation "Flavor-Aid"]]), but many of these were caught and killed by Jones' goons. Similarly, survivors' have said some victims with cold feet were forced to drink it with the threat of being shot.

* Cults that commit mass suicide might fall under this. The mass suicide of Jim Jones' People's Temple congregation in Guyana would be a RealLife example -- aside from the manipulations of a very charismatic cult leader (and his warnings -- possibly with some truth, as visiting U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan was recently killed by Jones' men there -- that their "enemies" were about to invade the commune), there were some members who did try to sneak away rather than drink the poisoned Kool-Aid (or rather, [[MemeticMutation "Flavor-Aid"]]), but many of these were caught and killed by Jones' goons.