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This is a list of incidents of [[suicide]]–the intentional killing of one's self–depicted in fictional works, including movies, television series, anime and manga, comics, novels, etc. This is a list of incidents of [[suicide]]–the intentional killing of one's self–depicted in fictional works, including movies, television series, anime and manga, comics, novels, etc.
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==Suicides in fiction== ==Suicides in fiction==
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-* [[Aegeus]], a character from Greek mythology, drowns himself after mistakenly believing that his son [[Theseus]] was dead<ref>http://www.temple.edu/classics/hippomythho.html</ref>+* [[Aegeus]], a character from Greek mythology, drowns himself after mistakenly believing that his son [[Theseus]] was dead
* [[Ajax (mythology)|Ajax the Great]], a character from the Greek mythology, stabs 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)<ref>http://seco.glendale.edu/ceramics/suicideofajax.html</ref> * [[Ajax (mythology)|Ajax the Great]], a character from the Greek mythology, stabs 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)<ref>http://seco.glendale.edu/ceramics/suicideofajax.html</ref>
* [[Naoko Akagi]] (''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''), jumps off a control tower after murdering [[Rei Ayanami|Rei I]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Drazen |first=Patrick |title=Anime Explosion! The What? Why? & Wow! of Japanese Animation |year=2002 | month=October |publisher=Stone Bridge Press |location=Berkeley, California |isbn=1-880656-72-8 |oclc=50898281 |page=132 }}</ref> * [[Naoko Akagi]] (''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''), jumps off a control tower after murdering [[Rei Ayanami|Rei I]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Drazen |first=Patrick |title=Anime Explosion! The What? Why? & Wow! of Japanese Animation |year=2002 | month=October |publisher=Stone Bridge Press |location=Berkeley, California |isbn=1-880656-72-8 |oclc=50898281 |page=132 }}</ref>
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==See also== ==See also==
 +* [[In fiction]]
* [[List of suicides]] * [[List of suicides]]

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This is a list of incidents of suicide–the intentional killing of one's self–depicted in fictional works, including movies, television series, anime and manga, comics, novels, etc.

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Suicides in fiction

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  • Daisy (Girl, Interrupted), method was unknown in the novel<ref>Kaysen, Susanna: "Girl, Interrupted", page 35. Vintage Books, 1993</ref> while in the movie, she hangs herself and cuts her wrists

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  • Sakura Ogawa (Battle Royale) throws herself off a cliff alongside Kazuhiko Yamamoto
  • Ophelia (Hamlet), drowning (ambiguous)<ref>Shakespeare, William. (1936). The Complete Works of Shakespeare, New York: Doubleday, pg 770.</ref>
  • Othello (Othello), stabs himself<ref>Shakespeare, William. (1936). The Complete Works of Shakespeare, New York: Doubleday, pg 979.</ref>
  • Okonkwo (Things Fall Apart), hangs himself out of despair

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  • Yoshimi Yahagi (Battle Royale), in the film, hangs herself alongside Yuji Kuramuto.
  • Kazuhiko Yamamoto (Battle Royale), throws himself off a cliff alongside Sakura Ogawa.
  • Adam Yates (The Innocent), gunshot.
  • Mary Alice Young in Desperate Housewives; gunshot to the head; the suicide enables the character to portray the role of narrator of the series from a dead point of view.

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