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'''As this is a DeathTrope, {{Death Trope|s}}, be careful of unmarked spoilers below.'''
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* ''Series/{{ER}}'': The show's very first episode had Carol Hathaway being brought in, having overdosed on pills. [[BungledSuicide She survives]] but this was actually supposed to be successful, but test audiences liked her character and so she recovered.
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* ''Series/{{ER}}'': The show's very first episode had Carol Hathaway being brought in, having overdosed on pills. [[BungledSuicide She survives]] but this was actually supposed to be successful, but test audiences liked her character and so she recovered. A year later, she's hurt and angry to hear her paramedic boyfriend making derisive comments about a patient who has done the same thing, insisting she'd have tried another way of she was serious about it.
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* In ''Film/HaroldAndMaude'', Maude had long planned to end her life on her 80th birthday, and at the film's climax takes a lethal dose of pills not out of despair or sadness but with the satisfaction of a life well-lived. Despite his morbidity and long history of threatening suicide, Harold is horrified and distraught when he finds out and rushes her to the hospital against her wishes, but she doesn't survive.
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* In ''Film/HaroldAndMaude'', Maude had long planned to [[DiedOnTheirBirthday end her life on her 80th birthday, birthday]], and at the film's climax takes a lethal dose of pills not out of despair or sadness but with the satisfaction of a life well-lived. Despite his morbidity and long history of threatening suicide, Harold is horrified and distraught when he finds out and rushes her to the hospital against her wishes, but she doesn't survive.
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--> '''Marx:''' The struggle goes on! Right?
--> '''God:''' ''sigh'' Yeah, yeah. The struggle goes on.
--> '''God:''' ''sigh'' Yeah, yeah. The struggle goes on.
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* ''Literature/TheStand'': Rita Blakemoor can't handle the shock and stress of the post-plague world and uses sleeping pills to overdose and kill herself.
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* ''Literature/TheStand'': Rita Blakemoor can't handle the shock and stress of the post-plague world and uses sleeping pills to overdose and kill herself. Her lover, Larry, guesses it was "seventy percent accident and thirty percent suicide," but he nonetheless realizes he was unable to give her the emotional support she needed to survive.
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* In the Music/TinaTurner {{Biopic}} ''Film/WhatsLoveGotToDoWithIt'', Tina attempts to kill herself by swallowing an entire prescription of sleeping pills after [[DomesticAbuse being raped and beaten repeatedly by Ike]]. However, she is saved at the last minute by her backup singers.
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* In the Music/TinaTurner {{Biopic}} ''Film/WhatsLoveGotToDoWithIt'', ''Film/WhatsLoveGotToDoWithIt1993'', Tina attempts to kill herself by swallowing an entire prescription of sleeping pills after [[DomesticAbuse being raped and beaten repeatedly by Ike]]. However, she is saved at the last minute by her backup singers.
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* ''Series/{{Soap}}'': Subverted with a HappilyFailedSuicide since after Jodie takes a bunch of sleeping pills in an attempt to kill herself, she merely falls asleep and wakes up as the most emotionally healthy character in the series.
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* ''Series/{{Soap}}'': Subverted with a HappilyFailedSuicide since after Jodie takes a bunch of sleeping pills in an attempt to kill herself, she himself, he merely falls asleep and wakes up as the most emotionally healthy character in the series.
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Second, in contrast to [[AteHisGun eating your own gun]], [[BathSuicide slitting one's wrists]], or even [[HangingAround hanging oneself]], overdosing is [[ArtisticLicensePharmacology (thought of]] [[NoDeadBodyPoops being)]] a far [[BloodlessCarnage less messy]] and [[SuicideIsPainless less painful]] way to go about offing oneself, leaving the body relatively clean, whole, and most importantly, unmarred for any follow-up scenes in which other characters must interact with it.
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Second, in contrast to [[AteHisGun eating your own gun]], [[BathSuicide slitting one's wrists]], or even [[HangingAround hanging oneself]], overdosing is [[ArtisticLicensePharmacology (thought of]] ([[ArtisticLicensePharmacology thought]] of [[NoDeadBodyPoops being)]] being]]) a far [[BloodlessCarnage less messy]] and [[SuicideIsPainless less painful]] way to go about offing oneself, leaving the body relatively clean, whole, and most importantly, unmarred for any follow-up scenes in which other characters must interact with it.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Leave}}'': It is implied that either the player character, a little girl with glasses, or her sister killed their father by sticking sleeping pills in his liquor, as you have to stick sleeping pills in his liquor bottle and then slash a picture with his face on it to escape the house'.
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony'': During the first random encounter with Margot, one of Luis' [[PsychoExGirlfriend overly attached past flings]], she reveals that she's just taken an overdose of painkillers and sleeping pills out of spite towards him. Luis takes it upon himself to drive her to the hospital so she can get her stomach pumped.
* ''VideoGame/{{Leave}}'': It is implied that either the player character, a little girl with glasses, or her sister killed their father by sticking sleeping pills in his liquor, as you have to stick sleeping pills in his liquor bottle and then slash a picture with his face on it to escape thehouse'.house.
* ''VideoGame/{{Leave}}'': It is implied that either the player character, a little girl with glasses, or her sister killed their father by sticking sleeping pills in his liquor, as you have to stick sleeping pills in his liquor bottle and then slash a picture with his face on it to escape the
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* Music/SaveFace: "The Perks of Not Being Able to See Your Reflection" is about a man and his beloved wanting to die together because he can't handle living. When she sees how distressed he is, she gives him some pills and bleach to wash them down with, apparently to overdose and die.
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* ''VideoGame/CriminalCase'': In case 52 of ''VideoGame/CriminalCaseTheConspiracy'', during the additional content (And ending of chapter 3) we see a very depressed Jones, who takes a severe and deadly amount of sedatives in front of the player and Gloria, due for the overwhelming feeling of unworthiness and failure as a police officer and boyfriend because he feels that he failed to protect Zoe Kuzama, his girlfriend, who died while being in a Psychiatric Hospital. He does survive thanks to the quick action of the team.
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Bleak as it may be, this trope can be played for BlackComedy if the character tries to use [[SubvertedTrope a non-lethal medicine]] like daily vitamins or health supplements, either because they didn't know better or because it's all they had access to.[[note]]As [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] makes clear, it is possible to overdose on what are considered "non-lethal" drugs like vitamin A and D, however doing so takes days if not weeks of overdosing in order to maintain toxicity levels high enough in the body to induce lethal symptoms like chronic diarrhea and liver failure.[[/note]]
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Bleak as it may be, this trope can be played for BlackComedy if the character tries to use [[SubvertedTrope a non-lethal medicine]] like daily vitamins or health supplements, either because they didn't know better or because it's all they had access to.[[note]]As [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] makes clear, it is possible to overdose on what are considered "non-lethal" drugs like vitamin A and D, however doing so takes days if not weeks of overdosing in order to maintain toxicity levels high enough in the body to induce lethal symptoms like chronic diarrhea and liver failure.[[/note]]
