List of suicides in fiction

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The following lists incidents of suicide or attempted suicide depicted in fiction. Actual historical incidents of suicide are listed at List of suicides.

[edit] Suicides in fiction

[edit] A

  • Ward Abbott (The Bourne Supremacy), self-inflicted gunshot
  • John Abruzzi (Prison Break), suicide by police
  • Aegeus, a character from Greek mythology, drowned himself after mistakingly believing that Theseus (his son), was dead.
  • Ajax the Great, a character from the Greek mythology, stabbed himself with a sword [his death is described by Sophocles, Pindar and Ovid; the suicide is, however only implied in Homer when, in the Odyssey, the ghost of Ajax refuses to speak to Odysseus in Hades]
  • Alia Atreides, a character in the Dune universe, becomes possessed and after temporarily regaining control, leaps out of a high window.[1]
  • Misa Amane (Death Note), unknown cause. In the anime, she was last seen standing at the top of a very tall building; it is assumed that she jumped.
  • Anna (Possession), while mortally injured by gunshots, she shoots herself
  • Ansem (Kingdom Hearts II) willingly remained to be caught in machine explosion

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[edit] D

  • Daisy (Girl Interrupted), method was unknown in the novel[4] while in the movie she hung herself and cut her wrists.
  • Dido (The Aeneid), Aeneas' lover in Carthage stabs herself when he leaves her on his quest to found a new nation in Italy.
  • Maya Driscoll (24), daughter of CTU Director Erin Driscoll slits her wrists on Day 4.
  • Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter) arranges for Severus Snape to kill him, knowing his death is already imminent.

[edit] E

  • Jimmy "Thunder" Early (Dreamgirls), heroin overdose
  • Nat Emmet (the opera Mr Emmet Takes a Walk) lies in the path of an oncoming train
  • April Ericcson (Rent), slits her wrists after finding out she has AIDS, and has infected her boyfriend, Roger.
  • Anne Ervin (The Chrysalids), hanging
  • Jimmy Edwards (One Tree Hill) shot himself in his head

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[edit] R

  • Ellen Ripley, (Alien 3), throws herself into a gigantic furnace.
  • Rumpelstiltskin, dwarf/fairy tale character who "in his rage drove his right foot so far into the ground that it sank in up to his waist; then in a passion he seized the left foot with both hands and tore himself in two."

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[edit] T

  • Beatrice Taylor (Ten Little Indians), drowns herself in the river
  • Capt. Clark Terrell (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), self-inflicted phaser shot
  • Floria Tosca (Tosca), opera heroine leaps to her death from the walls of the Castel Sant Angelo in Rome to escape Scarpia's henchmen
  • Claude Tanner (Degrassi High), shot himself in the head after being rejected by Caitlin.
  • Jiro Tomitake (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni), dies in six of the eight story arcs in the series, each time his death results from clawing his throat out, although this is debatable since it was caused by an injection of a drug.

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[edit] Y

[edit] Attempted suicides in fiction

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Herbert, Frank: "Children of Dune", page 394. Ace Books, 1987
  2. ^ Shakespeare (1936), pg 349.
  3. ^ Barnes and Noble: "The Treasury of American Poetry", page 327. Barnes and Noble Books, 1993
  4. ^ Kaysen, Susanna: "Girl, Interrupted", page 35. Vintage Books, 1993
  5. ^ Shakespeare (1936), pg 1053.
  6. ^ Shakespeare (1936), pg 348.
  7. ^ Shakespeare (1936), pg 770.
  8. ^ Shakespeare (1936), pg 979.
  9. ^ Hugo, Victor: "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame", page 458. Tor, 1996

[edit] References

  • Shakespeare, William. (1936). The Complete Works of Shakespeare, New York: Doubleday.