Movies That Depict Suicide Positively

[EndItPlsGirl]

1. The Fountain (2006)
Suicide is framed as transcendence and acceptance of death. The film treats death as a doorway rather than a tragedy.

2. The Virgin Suicides (1999)
The girls' suicides are aestheticized and mythologized by the narrators, who romanticize them. The film critiques this romanticization, but the presentation can feel "positive" or alluring.

3. The Sunset Limited (2011)
One character argues that suicide is a rational, even merciful choice for himself. The film doesn't endorse it, but it gives that viewpoint serious philosophical weight.

4. Rez Ball (2024)
A teammate's suicide becomes a source of unity, purpose, and motivation for the team — framed as something that inspires others to rise.

5. Poetry (2010)
A character chooses suicide as an act of moral responsibility and dignity after confronting a horrific truth.

 

[apearl]

I think that 'Night, Mother (1986) does a good job of depicting it too.

The whole movie is a conversation back and fourth between the daughter who wants to commit and the mother. The daughter lays out her reasons very fairly and reasonably and I feel like it represents a truth not seen in a lot of suicide fiction which is that a lot of people who ctb are still very rational in a overall sense.

My favorite quote from it is:
"And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it."

 

[voc_89]

A Silent Voice.

While not intended suicide... Graveyard of the Fireflies

 

[EndItPlsGirl]

Dang. Ty all for adding to this.

 

[moon2bright]

Stroszek, arguably.

 

[singingcrow]

thank you for the list

 

[EndItPlsGirl]

Yw.