History TearJerker / ThirteenReasonsWhy

* The infamous scene where Hannah graphically slits her wrists with a razor blade and bleeds to death in her bathtub and being discovered by her parents, shortly afterwards. All while being narrated by Clay to Mr. Porter. No poetic music, no artsy camera shots. Just a very despondent 17-year-old girl, hurting herself, with her cries of pain and her last shaky breaths before she silently passes away, alone, depressed, and crying.
** The lead-up to her parents finding her is... heartbreaking. You hear Mrs. Baker, asking Hannah about the water leaking from under the door and jokingly commenting about it, but when she opens the door, her face just... drops. There's no scream or terror at first -- just her quietly processing what happened with [[RapidFireNo a flurry of]] [[LittleNo small "no"s]] as she carefully approaches the tub and tries to pull Hannah out, all while telling her she's going to be okay before crying out for her husband, all while still [[HeroicBSOD holding Hannah's lifeless body, saying that she's OK]][[note]]She is basically in denial, and is trying to convince herself that Hannah is still alive[[/note]]. Mr. Baker's reaction is ''worse'', as he just tries to grab his daughter before his wife tells him to go call an ambulance. Just...[[OutlivingOnesOffspring every parent's fear of finding their children dead]].
** Hannah briefly running into the man who encouraged her to come to poetry group just before she commits suicide, who tells her they miss her and encourages her to come back, showing there are people who still care about her, but she's too far past the DespairEventHorizon to realize it.
** The build-up to her suicide is heartbreakingly scored with Ultravox's "Vienna", almost in a pre-emptive ReallyDeadMontage.

** Of course, the kids at school all [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint dramatically miss the point]] and focus on the first line, that mentions her BlackBraAndPanties.

** Even ''worse'' is the flashback: After Hannah drops her note to Zach, deducing that he's lonely like she (and by some extent, majority of the school) is, she watches Zach go through the small rack-bag and pull out the note and begins to read it out of the class. When she slowly follows him, she 'sees' him ''ripping the note'']]. Hannah's reaction well...it's [[BrokenBird like everything else that she's endured]].
--> '''Hannah:''' '''''WHY ZACH?! WHY?!'''''

** Crosses over with NightmareFuel, but the entire scene with Montgomery and his friends assualting Tyler in the bathroom, culminating in sodomizing him with a mop handle. Despite Tyler having a kinder attitude and apologizing for his actions, he has his head brutally bashed against the mirror (hard enough to break it), the sink (multiple times), his head dunked in the toilet all before the actual rape happens (and he’s still apologizing as this happens) The complete lack of shame of the attackers and the extent of the physical and mental trauma just make it worse. MsMojo even ranked it as the most heartbreaking scene in the entire show.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqwAfQwAfFg During the Spring Formal Dance]], Clay is actually enjoying himself with his friends...until "The Night We Met" plays, causing him to suffer a HeroicBSOD in the middle of the dance floor and slowly be embraced by Tony, Jessica, Courtney, Zach, Ryan, and Alex with Cyrus and his friends keeping watch as they all break down crying.

* "The Missing Page", which features Mr. Portner's immense guilt over how he wishes he could have helped Hannah more. Despite Sonya's attempts to paint Hannah as the one in the wrong, Porter still (with a cracking facade) remains firm that despite the school's regulation, ''he'' as a faculty member should have done more to reach out to Hannah. He even tearfully apologizes to Mrs. Baker for not helping Hannah more that day she was alive.

** Crosses over with NightmareFuel, but the entire scene with Montgomery and his friends assualting Tyler in the bathroom, culminating in raping him with a mop handle. Despite Tyler having a kinder attitude and apologizing for his actions, he has his head brutally bashed against the mirror (hard enough to break it), the sink (multiple times), his head dunked in the toilet all before the actual rape happens (and he’s still apologizing as this happens) The complete lack of shame of the attackers and the extent of the physical and mental trauma just make it worse. MsMojo even ranked it as the most heartbreaking scene in the entire show.

* Every single horrible thing Hannah undergoes, especially her rape by Bryce and Mr. Porter essentially telling her to move on from her rape if she refuses to disclose Bryce's name in her rape.

** The lead-up to her parents finding her is... heartbreaking. You hear Mrs. Baker, asking Hannah about the water leaking from under the door and jokingly commenting about it, but when she opens the door, her face just... drops. There's no scream or terror at first -- just her quietly processing what happened with [[RapidFireNo a flurry of]] [[LittleNo small "no"s]] as she carefully approaches the tub and tries to pull Hannah out, all while telling her she's going to be okay before crying out for her husband, all while still telling Hannah's lifeless body that she's okay]][[note]]She is basically in denial, and is trying to convince herself that Hannah is still alive[[/note]]. Mr. Baker's reaction is ''worse'', as he just tries to grab his daughter before his wife tells him to go call an ambulance. Just...[[OutlivingOnesOffspring every parent's fear of finding their children dead]].

* Throughout the show, Clay denies any romantic or platonic relationship to Hannah, choosing to say that they just worked together or the two of them had classes together when clearly, that wasn't the case. But after he gets to his tape and he finishes it, knowing how Hannah felt about him, he threatens to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff and is sent into a dream sequence where he refuses to leave Jessica's room after Hannah yells at him, begging her to let him in and finally telling her he loves her. He cries in Tony's arms, lamenting that he never got to hold her and tell her how he felt and that he killed her by listening to her and leaving her in that room alone.
** When Clay pours his heart out to Hannah, her response? [[ArmorPiercingQuestion "Why didn't you say this to me when I was alive?"]]. Clay hugging Hannah as they both cry doesn't help as well...

** Even ''worse'' is the flashback: After Hannah drops her note to Zach, deducing that he's lonely like she (and by some extent, majority of the school) is, she watches Zach go through the small rack-bag and pull out the note and begins to read it out of the class. When she slowly follows him, she 'sees' him ''ripping the note'']]. Hannah's reaction well...it's [[BrokenBird like everything else that she's endured.

** And in the season 2 finale, Clay goes to talk to Tyler to stop the shooting from happening, and Tyler tells Clay to go home. In the course of season two, Tyler has come to think better of Clay to get him off the list.

* The simple fact that Hannah is already dead, but you still want her to live after her trauma comes to light.