History Main / NeverSuicide

* One of the first episodes of ''DetectiveConan'' had this in ''reverse''. A man killed himself in a way that would look like murder in order to frame an enemy of his.

*** Which is nonsensical--work the jaw and cheek muscles and the human mouth will produce more than enough saliva to swallow any pill small enough to be taken orally. Mind, it would have been a lot slower than if she had a tap, but it's still possible.
**** You, personally, can generate enough spit to swallow an ''entire bottle'' of bitter chalk/disintegrating plastic containing therof? You've got some kind of [[YouDontWantToCatchThis gross condition]] there.
*** Another example is when he destroys a suicide theory by pointing out that the girl's toenails were halfway through being painted. The reasoning being that no-one would attempt suicide halfway through painting their toes.
**** The problem with statements of the form "No one would do X" is that it assumes a functioning rational mind.

* Even ''{{Dexter}}'' had one. In a bit of a twist, the deaths actually were suicide, but the victims' therapist had purposely [[DrivenToSuicide driven them to it]]. [[spoiler:Dexter kills him.]]
** [[OnceAnEpisode And exactly how much of a spoiler is that?]]

Sure enough, Bob is right. In CrimeAndPunishment shows, people never seem to kill themselves; with a few exceptions, every apparent suicide is staged to cover up a murder. This happens because simply confirming that it's a suicide is not very exciting, and [[NotSoFastBucko doesn't take an entire 40-minute episode]]. Presumably the police come across a few real suicides between episodes, but if they investigate one onscreen, start looking for the killer.

* [[spoiler: Braun's death]] in ''{{Monster}}''.

* Great example of a SubvertedTrope in [[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit ''Law and Order: Special Victims Unit'']]. In an early episode, Olivia and Elliot investigate the death of a young woman who fell from her apartment window onto a parked car. Suicide is ruled out about 30 seconds after the opening credits, and with good cause: there is evidence of someone else in the room, and the victim appeared to have been ''thrown through the windowpane'' all the way into the street. [[spoiler: As it turns out, the victim ''did'' kill herself, having been DrivenToSuicide by a series of emotionally and physically abusive relationships, beginning with the father who raped her when she was a child.]]

* [[spoiler:Donkey's death]] in TwentiethCenturyBoys

* Inverted in ''DeathNote Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases'', in which L investigate a series of murders, except for the last, which is a [[spoiler:suicide meant to look like a murder.]]

* Both played straight and ultimately subverted in ''DeathNote Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases'', in which L investigate a series of murders meant to look like suicides, except for the last, which is a [[spoiler:suicide meant to look like a murder.]]

* In the fourth ''AceAttorney'' game, [[spoiler:Magnifi Gramarye kills himself, he was dieing a slow death, after passing on his magic to one of his apprentices via SecretTestOfCharacter and once the other apprentice fails said test. This is significant, because the latter apprentice manipulates the scene to make it appear that the first apprentice committed murder.]]

* Played Straight in {{The Ghost and Mrs. Muir}}. Everyone thinks that Captain Gregg committed suicide by closing all the the windows and doors and turning on the gas. He takes extreme offense to this and explains that he closed the windows and doors that night because it was raining and accidentally kicked the switch to the gas on when he fell asleep in a chair.