Fiction about suicide

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother.

1862 novel by Victor Hugo

opera by Giacomo Puccini

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder, and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias.

Japanese manga series

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

2006 role-playing video game

1989 stage musical

daughter of Krakus, legendary founder of Kraków; upon her father's death, she became queen of the Poles, but committed suicide to avoid an unwanted marriage to a German

Japanese manga series

video game series

2016 musical

Japanese light novel series

Japanese manga series

1948 short story by J. D. Salinger

Japanese manga series

short story by Ernest Hemingway

short story by H. P. Lovecraft

musical by composer Tom Kitt and librettist and lyricist Brian Yorkey

play by Eugene O'Neill

Manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto

1945 musical by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics)

Japanese manga series

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

Japanese manga series

Japanese manga series

1915 novel by Ford Madox Ford

comic book storyline by J.M. DeMatteis and Mike Zeck

2014 video game

analog horror web series by Alex Kister

opera by Frederick Delius

novel by Nick Hornby

play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon

fictional machine for killing oneself

1880 novel by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

Japanese manga series

French fairy tale

short story by Stephen King

In Greek mythology, Anchurus () was a Phrygian prince as the son of Midas—the heavily mythologized but still historical king of Phrygia—in whose reign the earth opened in the area of the town of Celaenae in Phyrgia.

novel by Philip José Farmer

1972 novella by Peter Handke

play written by Karel Čapek

short story by Guy de Maupassant

work of fan fiction that inspired various derivative works

Japanese novel series