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They went home... and sabbatum in a hot bath... opened upwardly their veins... and bled to decease. And sometimes they had a little political party earlier they did information technology.

The act of killing oneself past sitting in a tub and slitting one's blood vessels. The warm water is conducive to an easy flow of blood, so this is a comparatively painless method of suicide and tends to leave a relatively unblemished (and thus more dignified) corpse. And the billowing clouds of claret look really cool, too.

Perhaps because of its having been used by the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca, who killed himself at the command of his former pupil, the emperor Nero (as depicted in the folio analogy from the Nuremberg Chronicle), this act has frequently been associated with characters who are permitted "honorable deaths" or who take this way out as an alternative to submitting to tyranny.

A Death Trope, so be prepared for Spoilers. Sometimes a issue of being Driven to Suicide. Non to be confused with some other popular style to lose your life in a bathtub.

Compare Leave Behind a Pistol and Seppuku for alternative methods of ritualised suicide.

The mixture of claret and water in the tub in the aftermath of this event is not to exist dislocated for a Claret Bathroom.

Examples of Bath Suicide include:

Anime & Manga

• Kei Kishimoto from Gantz does this earlier the serial took place. When she comes back to life y'all can see a flash back of it in episode six.
• Kakeru Satsuki's sis from 11eyes does this before the beginning of the serial. Information technology is flashbacked to in episode ane.
• A flashback in Rex of Thorn reveals that Kasumi attempted this, but was interrupted before she could end.
• Implied to have been attempted in Neon Genesis Evangelion by Asuka, postal service Listen Rape.
• Sakura Gari
  • Souma's stepmother committed suicide this way when Souma was a child. Or and then y'all'd think. The truth is manner more horrible.
  • When Souma himself is suicidal afterwards Masataka brutally calls him out on his horrible handling of him, he's so broken that he cuts his wrists open up and places his bleeding arms in the same bath tub where his stepmom died. He lives, though barely.
• Several people die this way Example Closed, though sometimes it's murder bearded as a suicide. The most famous example is Mina Aoshima's murder by the hand of her older sister Masayo.
• It's never shown on screen, but Megumi from Rurouni Kenshin has the classic vertical scar marks on her wrists, and she mentions having attempted suicide.
• In the Shiki manga, Seishin is shown to have attempted this in college. It didn't work.
• Misaki Touno from Private Actress committed suicide this manner, in the eye of a massive Heroic BSOD due to having failed to nail an extremely hard role. In reality, her "assistant" and local Creepy Kid Kana/Satoka drove her to kill herself.

Fan Works

• My Immortal has Ebony jumping into the bathtub later on slitting her wrists and getting the blood all over her clothes. She takes a steak and contemplates sticking it into her heart to kill herself.
• Duo Maxwell has killed himself this way in at least one Gundam Wing yaoi fic, normally over Heero.

Films — Live-Activity

• Arvid does this in Swing Kids.
• In The Godfather Office Ii, Tom Hagen visits Pentangeli in prison and talks most this practice in the Roman Empire, hinting that if Pentangeli does this, his family unit will be spared. He does, and they are. The shot showing the consequence references the painting The Death of Marat (a french revolutionary who did non commit suicide but was killed in a bathroom)
• Information technology'due south strongly implied that Dr. Weir'southward wife Claire killed herself this way in Consequence Horizon.
• Happens in the opening scene of Sofia Coppola'due south 1999 hit film The Virgin Suicides.
• Attempted suicide in The Terminal Emperor. Done with a sink rather than a bathtub just the idea is even so at that place.
• The protagonist'due south sister kills herself in a bath in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.
• Stan Uris of IT is driven into this method, and paints the give-and-take "It" in his own blood on the shower wall.
• Lady Macbeth goes out this mode in the Australian picture show of Macbeth.
• In the movie thirteen Ghosts , the by of the Angry Princess has her being a cute woman who attempted to fix an "imperfection" and bled herself dry considering she became bullheaded in one heart.
• Double Subverted in the Finnish movie Prinsessa. Christina, a mentally sick woman, cuts her wrists in a bathtub, with only the intention of draining away her "bad claret". She ends up unintentionally bleeding to death.
• Mitya does this at the finish of Burnt by the Sun.
• In Slumdog Millionaire , the primary graphic symbol's brother goes out this way combined with the trope Suicide past Cop. Sitting in the bathroom-tub in a tub of stolen Rupees with his pistol aimed at the bathroom door way, and taking out equally many gangsters as he can. In the cease he dies, just not before bleeding on his former boss' cash. This ways that not only is the mafia boss now missing a few cronies, only he likewise has to practice some laundering on his dirty, encarmine cash, if yous know what I mean (I.East Literally).
• Rules Of Allure has Sean'south secret gentleman, who, upon being so badly heartbroken when Sean leaves with Lauren's roommate, promptly committing suicide this fashion.

Live-Action TV

• Afterlife had i character who slit her wrists in the bath after psychic Allison Mundy claimed to run into her dead mother behind her.
• Dexter subverts this twice, in dissimilar ways: first, with a serial killer who kills every third victim by making it look similar this sort of suicide. His final impale was Rita, in the bathtub of Dexter's house. Afterward, Dexter helps an extremely troubled daughter escape later on she just committed her outset murder, and tells her to meet him at that same house. When he tin can't notice her in the house, the audition is led to believe she may take committed suicide. He so finds her in the same bathtub the previous murder occurred in. She's just taking a bath.
• In One Tree Colina, Alex attempts suicide this way, but Julian gets there in time

Literature

• In World War Z, in Nihon, a cute young woman slit her wrists in her bath when the dead rose. It isn't pretty a few hours subsequently, when the otaku, while fleeing the zombies, stumbles upon her.
• In Stephen King'southward It, this is how the adult Stanley Uris kills himself when he learns that the title Eldritch Abomination has returned.
• In White Night of The Dresden Files, a despair-enducing vampire tries, and nearly succeeds, to brand Elaine practice this. Fortunately, Harry gets through to her in time, afterwards which she wraps herself in a towel and blasts the vampire with lightning.
• I character midway through On a Pale Horse kills himself this manner, when Zane is still getting used to his part as The Grim Reaper.
• Outcast Cheryl Stuphin kills herself this mode in Slam Book, cheers to a prank gone wrong and a drunken, hateful bluster from one of the primary character'southward friends. The chapter ends with her in the tub nearly to open a vein, followed by the announcement of her death.

Music

• Unsaid in the video to Everytime past Britney Spears, earlier the All Just a Dream catastrophe (which was evidently the result of Executive Meddling).
• The State of war on Drugs by Barenaked Ladies is about suicide in full general, just also focuses on i detail character in the first one-half of the song:

In the dream I refuse to accept She falls asleep in a lukewarm bath We're left to deal with the aftermath once more

Theater

• In Rent, Roger's girlfriend Apr killed herself this way before the beginning of the play, leaving a suicide note reading, "We've got AIDS."

Video Games

• Practise It Once again, a custom Doom level, is nearly doing this to yourself.
• In Heavy Rain, the mother of ane of the Origami Killer's victims attempts this, only is rescued by Shelby. (Then again, she cut across rather than down, and then she might not have been very serious well-nigh information technology... that or research was non done.)
• Business firm of Rules: Pam had killed herself this way in the locked bathroom.
• If Alex from Eternal Darkness examines a bathtub inside her family abode, the camera rapidly zooms in on the suddenly-total tub in which a corpse of Alex lies in a pool of her own claret, prompting a Jump Scare.

Spider web Original

• The Nostalgia Critic mimics the scene from It at the end of his review, except that—instead of writing "It"—he scrawls the word "balloon" on the shower wall.
• Spoony made a reference to doing this, but apologized for information technology after learning that a fan of his really had committed suicide.

Western Animation

• Parodied on Robot Craven. A teenage girl is nigh to off herself this style when her dad barges into the bath to have a dump. Information technology's unsaid she ends up drowning herself instead due to the sight, sound, and stench.

Real Life

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca was probably the Trope Codifier, if not the Trope Maker. He is referenced past name in The Godfather (See Films, higher up.)
• His contemporary Petronius Arbiter, also starring in Quo Vadis, did this also, only without a bath. He preferred to have a nice banquet. Oh, and taking a nap before he actually died. That's because he was awesome. (He dictated an account of all of Nero's perversions before bleeding out. Understandably, this took quite a while; he had his wounds spring upwards with tourniquets so he'd last long plenty.)

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