Suicides in Fiction
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- Anne Ervin (The Chrysalids), hanging
- Emma Bovary (Madame Bovary), arsenic poisoning
- Juliet Capulet (Romeo and Juliet), knife wounds
- Sydney Carton (A Tale of Two Cities), guilltoine
- Vera Claythorne (Ten Little Indians), hanging
- Quentin Compson (The Sound and the Fury), drowning
- Clyde Connolly (Dream Team), jumped off of the Dragons Lair Stadium
- Phil Connors (Groundhog Day), various including wounds from gunshots and knives, poisoning, freezing, hanging, electrocution and immolation
- John Constantine (Various comic books and a movie) slit his wrists.
- Edmond Dantès (The Count of Monte Cristo), attempted starvation
- Father Time (Jude the Obscure), hanged himself
- Fuyubachi ("Happy Family Planning" episode of Paranoia Agent), overdosing or carbon monoxide poisoning
- Hans Giebenrath (Beneath the Wheel, Hermann Hesse), drowning (suspicious circumstances)
- Seymour Glass (Nine Stories (Salinger)), gunshot wound
- Sir Hercules (Collected Short Stories (Huxley)), slashing of wrists
- Waring Hudsucker (The Hudsucker Proxy), jumping out the window of a building
- Javert (Les Miserables), jumping off bridge
- Kamome ("Happy Family Planning" episode of Paranoia Agent), jumping or carbon monoxide posioning
- John the Savage (Brave New World), kills himself after realizing he has succumbed to everything he detests in the futuristic society (Not to mention his isolation from Bernard and Helmholtz, the death of his mother, Linda)
- Anna Karenina (Anna Karenina), by throwing herself in the path of a train
- Lady Macbeth (Macbeth) - the actual information about her demise is nebulous
- Madame Akkikuyu (The Crystal Prison), throws self on bonfire
- Fernand Mondego (The Count of Monte Cristo), gunshot wounds
- Romeo Montague (Romeo and Juliet), poisoning
- Nesrine [The real life]
- Edna Pontellier (The Awakening), drowning
- Quentin (The Sound and the Fury), drowning
- Rumpelstiltskin ripping himself in two halfs
- Radzinsky (LOST): Former Station 3: The Swan operator. According to Kelvin Joe Innman, he put a shotgun in his mouth while Kelvin was asleep.
- Eva Smith (An Inspector Calls), poisoning
- Saga; Saint Seiya Character,
- Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca (Angels and Demons), self-immolation
- Veronica Harnden (Children of the Dust), drug overdose taken to end her suffering from radiation sickness. Her son, William, and stepdaughter, Sarah, later die in the same way.
- Heloise de Villefort (The Count of Monte Cristo), poisoning
- Werther (The Sorrows of Young Werther), shot wounds (caused by borrowed pistols)
- George Wilson (The Great Gatsby), gunshot wounds
- Dallas Winston (The Outsiders), suicide by police
- Zebra ("Happy Family Planning" episode of Paranoia Agent), overdosing or carbon monoxide poisoning
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