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* ''Film/{{Cyberbully|2011}}'': In this case, it's a suicide ''video'', which protagonist Taylor Hillridge posts after being [[{{Cyberbullying}} bullied]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin online]] and having her heart broken. After her best friend Samantha sees the video, she notifies Taylor's mother, Kris, who in turn, notifies paramedics, and all of whom hurry to the Hillridge residence to stop her before she kills herself. Just as Taylor is about to do so [[SuicideByPills by downing a large amount of Tylenol]], she is unable to get the cap off, allowing Samantha, Kris, [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling her younger brother]], [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Eric]], and paramedics [[InterruptedSuicide to stop her before she makes good on this threat]].

* ''Film/{{Cyberbully|2011}}'': In this case, it's a suicide ''video'', which protagonist Taylor Hillridge posts after being [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin bullied online]] and having her heart broken. After her best friend Samantha sees the video, she notifies Taylor's mother, Kris, who in turn, notifies paramedics, and all of whom hurry to the Hillridge residence to stop her before she kills herself. Just as Taylor is about to do so [[SuicideByPills by downing a large amount of Tylenol]], she is unable to get the cap off, allowing Samantha, Kris, [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling her younger brother]], [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Eric]], and paramedics [[InterruptedSuicide to stop her before she makes good on this threat]].

* ''Film/{{Cyberbully|2011}}'': In this case, it's a suicide ''video'', which protagonist Taylor Hillridge posts after being [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin bullied online]] and having her heart broken. After her best friend Samantha sees the video, she notifies Taylor's mother, Kris, who in turn, notifies paramedics, and all of whom hurry to the Hillridge residence to stop her before she kills herself. Just as Taylor is about to do so [[SuicideByPills by downing a large amount of Tylenol]], she is unable to get the cap off, [[InterruptedSuicide allowing Samantha, Kris and paramedics to stop her before she makes good on this threat]].

* ''Film/{{Cyberbully|2011}}'': In this case, it's a suicide ''video'', which protagonist Taylor Hillridge posts after being [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin bullied online]] and having her heart broken. After her best friend Samantha sees the video, she notifies Taylor's mother, Kris, who in turn, notifies paramedics, and all of whom hurry to the Hillridge residence to stop her. Taylor is just about to kill herself [[SuicideByPills by downing a large amount of Tylenol]], but is unable to get the cap off, [[InterruptedSuicide allowing Samantha, Kris and paramedics to stop her before she makes good on this threat]].

* ''Film/{{Cyberbully|2011}}'': In this case, it's a suicide ''video'', which protagonist Taylor Hillridge posts after being [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin bullied online]] and having her heart broken. When her best friend Samantha sees the video, she notifies her mother, who in turn, notifies paramedics, and hurries to the Hillridge residence to stop her. Taylor is just about to kill herself [[SuicideByPills by downing a large amount of Tylenol]], but is unable to get the cap off, [[InterruptedSuicide allowing Samantha, Kris and paramedics to stop her before she makes good on this threat]].

* ''Film/{{Cyberbully|2011}}'': In this case, it's a suicide ''video'', which protagonist Taylor Hillridge posts online after being [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin bullied online]] and having her heart broken. When her best friend Samantha sees this, she notifies her mother, who in turn, notifies paramedics, and hurries to the Hillridge residence to stop her. Taylor is just about to kill herself [[SuicideByPills by downing a large amount of Tylenol]], but is unable to get the cap off, [[InterruptedSuicide allowing Samantha, Kris and paramedics to stop her before she makes good on this threat]].

* ''Film/{{Cyberbully|2011}}'': In this case, it's a suicide ''video'', which Taylor posts online after being [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin bullied online]] and having her heart broken. When her best friend Samantha sees this, she notifies her mother, who in turn, notifies [=EMTs=], and hurries to the Hillridge residence to stop her. Taylor is just about to kill herself [[SuicideByPills by downing a large amount of Tylenol]], but is unable to get the cap off, [[InterruptedSuicide allowing Samantha, Kris and paramedics to stop her before she makes good on this threat]].

* ''Film/{{Cyberbully|2011}}'': In this case, it's a suicide ''video'', which Taylor posts online after being [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin bullied online]] and having her heart broken. When her best friend Samantha sees this, she notifies her mother, who in turn, notifies [=EMTs=], and hurries to the Hillridge residence to stop her. Taylor is unable to get the cap off, [[InterruptedSuicide allowing Samantha, Kris and paramedics to stop her before she makes good on this threat]].

* ''Film/{{Cyberbully|2011}}'': In this case, it's a suicide ''video'', which Taylor posts online after being [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin bullied online]] and having her heart broken. When her best friend Samantha sees this, she notifies her mother, who in turn, notifies EMTs, and hurries to the Hillridge residence to stop her. Taylor is unable to get the cap off, [[InterruptedSuicide allowing Samantha, Kris and paramedics to stop her before she makes good on this threat]].

* In Creator/CarlHiaasen's ''Literature/SkinnyDip'', Charles Perrone writes a fake suicide note, intending to cover his tracks as he flees the country, but karma catches up with him first.
* In ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', the Baudelaires find that the spelling errors in a suicide note are [[spoiler: a secret code used by grammar addict Aunt Josephine, giving them her hiding place. ]]

* At the end of ''Berlin Memorandum'', Literature/{{Quiller}} has tracked down the Nazi he wanted revenge on since seeing him execute concentration camp inmates during World War II. We don't see what happens, but afterwards, he reports to MissionControl, who asks if he wants smoke out (SpySpeak for a cover up). Quiller replies that it isn't necessary, as "he left a suicide note."
* [[ThePhilosopher Gothos]] in ''Literature/TheKharkanasTrilogy'' claims that the project he's currently writing is a suicide note. He's been at it for [[WeAreAsMayflies several centuries now]] and does not expect to be done any time soon. Other characters are quick to question the point behind writing a suicide note that will never actually ''end''; Gothos cares not.
* At the start of ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror,'' Daylen leaves a suicide note revealing [[RetiredMonster his identity as Dayless the Conqueror]] before he leaps off [[WorldInTheSky the edge of the world]]. He intends to return home and destroy the note after [[BungledSuicide the attempt fails]] and [[FountainOfYouth he regains his youth]], but is too late to stop a local farmer from [[NewsTravelsFast sending it to the papers]], forcing him to concoct a story about being [[MyGrandsonMyself Dayless the Conqueror's son]] for when word gets out of Dayless being alive, leaving everyone to think that Dayless's BungledSuicide actually succeeded.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/TheFeelingOfPower": Technician Aub leaves behind a suicide note to explain why he was DrivenToSuicide.
--> "When I began the study of [[{{UsefulNotes/Mathematics}} what is now called graphitics]], it was no more than a hobby. I saw no more in it than an interesting amusement, an exercise of mind.\\
"When Project Number began, I thought that others were wiser than I; that graphitics might be put to practical use as a benefit to mankind, to aid in the production of really practical [[{{Teleportation}} mass-transference devices]] perhaps. But now I see it is to be used only for death and destruction.\\
"[[DrivenToSuicide I cannot face the responsibility involved in having invented graphitics.]]"
* Tristan from ''Literature/PostHighSchoolRealityQuest'' always expected to be the next Einstein or Steve Jobs. But in college, he finds himself struggling more than he expected. Then Merrill punches him in the chest, which due to his Marfan syndrome puts him in the hospital, causing him to miss so much school that he's guaranteed to fail at least two of his classes, which means the best grad schools won't want him. Thinking his future is over, he texts Buffy, telling her to bring all his friends over, and then hangs himself. His note says, "Thought I'd have one last reunion of the whole group. Haha. Thanks, Buffy - I knew you could get everyone to come together. And thanks, Merrill, for helping me realize I really can't be anything extraordinary. Saved me a lot of time and frustration."
* ''Literature/LesMiserables'' has a {{subver|tedTrope}}sion. InspectorJavert stands over the River Seine, obviously [[PreludeToSuicide thinking about killing himself]], then goes to the nearest station-house and sits down to write... a list of suggestions for the administration to improve the police service. He then returns to the Seine and jumps in.
* In ''Literature/TheSorrowsOfSatan'', Lady Sibyl commits suicide after being [[SpurnedIntoSuicide rejected by Lucio]], who unbeknownst to her is really {{Satan}}. Before she drinks the poison, she writes a detailed note describing the influences that led her to become what she is. After she drinks the poison, she survives long enough to write about her visions of the hell that awaits her.

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* Played for BlackComedy in one WebAnimation/ASDFMovie installment: a man puts a gun to his head and sadly says "Goodbye world." Cut to a sentient planet Earth happily saying goodbye only to get cut off by a gunshot as it exclaims "Oh no! That's not what I thought he meant by that at all!"
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* ''WesternAnimation/PixieDixieAndMrJinks'': In "Ghost With the Most," Jinks thinks he killed Dixie acter clobbering him with a fireplace shovel (he rely didn't--Dixie was playing possum). Dixie plays his own ghost to haunt Jinks, but when Jinks gets wise, he leaves a goodbye note indicating his own demise then pretends to be his own ghost to haunt Pixie and Dixie.

* ''WesternAnimation/PixieDixisAndMrJinks'': In "Ghost With the Most," Jinks thinks he killed Dixie acter clobbering him with a fireplace shovel (he rely didn't--Dixie was playing possum). Dixie plays his own ghost to haunt Jinks, but when Jinks gets wise, he leaves a goodbye note indicating his own demise then pretends to be his own ghost to haunt Pixie and Dixie.

->''"Goodbye, cruel world,''
->''I'm leaving you today.''
->''Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.''

* In the final episode of ''Series/ForeverKnight'', a psychiatrist friend of Natalie's does a BathtubSuicide, leaving a message addressed to her not to [[MarriedToTheJob make the same mistake that she did]]. This backfires [[spoiler:as Natalie decides to [[KissOfTheVampire force the issue]] with her RomanticVampireBoy and [[DownerEnding dies]] when Nick Knight loses control of his bloodlust.]]

* In ''Film/BloodHarvest'', Mervo shows Jill a letter his mother wrote, describing her plan to commit suicide with her husband over the foreclosure of their farm.
* ''Film/WrongIsRight''. The king of Middle Eastern country [[NeverSuicide conveniently commits suicide]] just before he's about to give WeaponsOfMassDestruction to a terrorist leader. He leaves a taped suicide note which is authenticated by experts as having been said by him, but it's later shown that the CIA assembled the tape from recordings of his radio speeches.

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* Played with in the Series/{{Sherlock}} Series 2 finale. When Sherlock is blackmailed by Moriarty into jumping off a building to his death [[AndYourLittleDogToo or his friends will be killed]], he makes a final phone call to John Watson who is watching from the street below. [[spoiler:Of course, he's actually planning on FakingTheDead.]]

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': In season four Phoebe's EvilTwin Ursula reveals that their mother left a note before killing herself when the girls were teenagers. Apparently the note revealed that she wasn't actually their birth mother and told the girls where to find their biological mother, information Phoebe had only just found out for herself in the previous episode. When Phoebe asks if she can see it Ursula quickly scribbles out a fake note (which Phoebe immediately sees through) before admitting that she ''threw the original away''.