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Suicide, Not Accident
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Bob is ready, for whatever reason, to commit suicide. But he carefully arranges matters so his death will be thought to be accidental instead — or at least leave enough ambiguity that his loved ones can imagine that it was an accident. There are several reasons why a person would do this: Most insurance companies won't pay full death benefits on a suicide and may pay extra for accidental death.note In Real Life, a claim will usually not be paid if the life insured dies as a result of suicide within a certain period of time after the policy has been taken out. The cool-off period is typically two years. Suicide was a crime for decades (if not centuries) in many countries; just because someone wants to end it all doesn't mean he wants his body shipped off for dissection, exposed or otherwise dishonored. Some religions condemn suicide, a believer who wants to be buried in the faith would have to choose a death method that could be ruled "accident" to avoid a Dishonored Dead. Occasionally a suicide will be covered up by a second party who wants to protect the deceased's reputation. Compare Make It Look Like an Accident and Suicide, Not Murder. Contrast Accidental Suicide, Never Suicide, and Accident, Not Murder. Death Trope, so Spoilers Ensue. |
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The Narrows: Terry McCaleb's death was written off as a heart attack, but Harry Bosch suspects that the Poet (a Serial Killer) killed him. Instead, Bosch eventually figures out that McCaleb was facing another heart transplant surgery due to his body rejecting the donor heart. But another surgery would have bankrupted his family, so McCaleb tampered with his own pills, which brought about heart failure and death. | |
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In The Raven in the Foregate, a Brother Cadfael novel by Ellis Peters, most of the Foregate residents assume that Father Ailnoth drove Eluned to drown herself. But luckily for Eluned, her body drifted into another parish. The priests of Saint Chad gave her Christian burial on the grounds that no one could prove she was a suicide. | |
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Alluded to in "The Napoli Express" (one of the Lord Darcy stories). Most of the people in the sleeper car are on their way to the funeral of a former commander. Said commander's death is suspected to be a covert suicide, but the coroner allows a verdict of "accident" to permit a Catholic funeral. | |
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Psych: The Victim of the Week is a stunt biker having a series of suspicious near-fatal accidents or near-accidents; it's eventually revealed that he's dying of cancer, but only insured against accidental death. Shawn stops the investigation, but it's left ambiguous whether he goes through with it or not. The end of the episode reveals that at least for now, he does not go through with it. |
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Orange: In the original timeline, Kakeru Naruse died in a car accident on Valentine's Day. For many years, his friends believe that it was an accident, but Kakeru's grandmother eventually reveals that Kakeru had harbored suicidal tendencies before the event and actually tried to kill himself once, so it is highly likely that he committed suicide. | |
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Ophelia in Hamlet is allowed a Christian burial because, although she seems to have purposefully refrained from saving herself, it was technically an accident. A sexton points out at her funeral that if she hadn't been a noble, they wouldn't have given her the benefit of the doubt. | |
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Sons of Anarchy: John Teller's death was officially ruled an accident. He seemed to have lost control of his motorcycle and collided with an oncoming truck. However, some people who knew him suspect that it was a suicide. John was very depressed at the time because the 'biker brotherhood' he helped to create has turned into just another criminal gang. He also discovered that his wife and best friend were sleeping together and might have been plotting to kill him. In the series finale Jax Teller dies the same way his father did. While being chased by police, he hits an oncoming truck head on. This time we see that it was clearly a suicide since Jax deliberately swerved into the other lane and let go off the handlebars. Jax was under a death sentence from his own club and wanted to spare his friends from having to kill him. However, the police report of the incident is likely to rule it an accident as well. |
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Death of a Salesman: Willy Loman tries to provide for his family by killing himself in a way that looks like an accident. Specifically, he runs his car off the road to fake a traffic accident. | |
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Rizzoli & Isles: In "Dangerous Curve Ahead", Frankie investigates a suspicious car accident only to discover the driver had deliberate run her car off the road; picking a point where the crash was guaranteed to kill her. | |
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Similarly, in an episode of Strong Medicine, a woman is brought to the hospital after a car accident. She can only babble that she wants to see her husband. Two staff members go all out to find her husband, but are unsuccessful. The woman eventually dies from her injuries, with the two staff members lamenting their failure to find her husband in time. Until a cop present in the ER notes that the woman's name sounds familiar and remembers that her husband was himself killed in a car accident a few weeks earlier. The soon realize that the woman's babbling was a desire to be reunited with her husband and that her own accident was likely a suicide. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire: Princess Viserra Targaryen, daughter of King Jaehaerys I dies in a drunken horserace just a week before she was supposed to be sent to the cold, dreary North to marry a man older than her father. The text specifically states that she sneaked out of the Royal Palace in order to have 'one last night of revelry'. Viserra also was a Proud Beauty that had ambitions of being Queen. Marrying a four times widower would be a Fate Worse than Death for her. Queen Jaehaera Targaryen died when she fell from the Red Keep. Nobody knew what caused it, and her death was officially ruled an accident, but it's hard not think that she might have harbored suicidal thoughts after seeing her twin, Jaehaerys, being butchered during the Dance of the Dragons, the same thoughts that led her mother, Helaena, to throw herself off of the Red Keep (and something that was ruled a suicide, even if the smallfolk believed that she was murdered by Rhaenyra). |
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In Too Much Information (2005), the car accident that killed Larry and Hellene is revealed to be intentional on Hellene's part, distraught after being confronted by Larry over losing their money in a 419 scam. | |
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Inverted in Final Destination. One of the teenagers who would have died on Flight 180 slips in the bathroom and a cord in the shower wraps around his neck, strangling him as he struggles to get out of the bathtub and reach for a pair of scissors to cut the cord. His family finds him and assume that he committed suicide. | |
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CSI: In one episode, an unemployed man is ultimately shown to have committed suicide whilst out "hunting" in order that his wife can claim on an insurance policy he has taken out in her name, since it will be assumed he died in a Hunting "Accident". | |
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