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Suicide is a recurring theme in The Walking Dead. It occurs when a character takes their own life away. Several characters have attempted to but didn't. It is not to be confused with sacrifice, which occurs when a character gives up their own life for another.
While searching for supplies in a house, Rick stumbles upon the corpses of a family that died in an apparent murder/suicide. (Issue 2)
Sophia's father died after he gave up on life (due to witnessing the death of his parents) and allowed himself to be devoured. (Issue 5)
After losing his son and daughter to the walkers he kept in his barn, Hershel Greene prepares to commit suicide, but is stopped by Rick. (Issue 11)
Chris and Julie commit to shooting each other in a suicide pact, but this is botched when Chris shoots early, resulting in only Julie dying. (Issue 14)
Carol tries to commit suicide after breaking up with Tyreese by slitting her wrists, and later successfully kills herself by letting a zombie bite her on the neck. (Issue 22, Issue 42)
Hershel gives up on life after his last son, Billy, is killed, and allows the Governor's army to surround him. He is executed by the Governor. (Issue 48)
While searching the woods for food, Rick and Carl stumble upon a survivor that is surrounded and devoured by walkers. After stumbling across his vehicle, Carl concludes that the survivor committed suicide "like Carol did". (Issue 51)
Maggie Greene attempts suicide by hanging herself after losing her entire family. (Issue 55)
While hiding from a herd inside a house, Morgan discovers the former residents dead in an apparent murder-suicide, with the father poisoning his children before killing them with a drill, and then shooting his wife and himself. (Issue 60
Douglas Monroe prepares to commit suicide by allowing himself to be devoured, but spots Rick and Carl in trouble at the last second and attempts to help them by shooting the walkers surrounding them. He is devoured regardless. (Issue 83)
Rick Grimes contemplates suicide after his wife, Andrea, passes away from a walker bite. Originally intending to allow himself to be devoured by the undead Andrea, Rick ultimately resolves to live and stabs Andrea in the head. (Issue 167)
Negan begs Maggie to kill him, not wanting to live alone. (Issue 174)
Having been bitten, Irene shoots herself in the head to prevent reanimation. (A New Day)
Ben Paul recalls how one of his classmates, Jenny Pitcher, committed suicide by overdosing on pills. She subsequently reanimated and killed a number of her classmates. (Starved For Help)
After Sarita's death, Kenny appears to contemplate suicide rather than continuing to live on alone. (Amid The Ruins)
Sarah gives up on life while she and Clementine are surrounded by walkers in a trailer. Clementine can either slap Sarah to get her to snap out of it, or leave her to her fate, in which case she will be devoured. (Amid The Ruins)
Jane's sister, Jaime, gave up on life and begged her sister to let her die. Jane eventually granted this request by leaving her on a rooftop surrounded by walkers. (Amid The Ruins)
Sophia Fairbanks had a heart condition, because of that she decided to not live the rest of her life. She then killed herself, via a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. (What We Deserve)
If Clementine went with Jane after the events of "No Going Back", Jane eventually commits suicide by hanging herself after she discovers that she is pregnant with Luke's child. (Thicker Than Water)
If both Javier and Clementine go after Kate, Gabe will be bitten by his undead father, David. If Javier doesn't elect to shoot him himself, Gabe will commit suicide in order to prevent himself from reanimating. (From The Gallows)
While exploring the train station, Clementine and AJ discover a walker couple that committed suicide via ingesting rat poison after tying themselves to chairs. In their suicide note, they ask to be left as walkers as it's what they want. Clementine can choose to either honor their request, or to put the couple down in order to get the key to the security doo. (Done Running)
After realizing that he's dying, Abel requests that Clementine kill him so that he won't come back as a walker, in exchange for information about the Delta. (Broken Toys)
Clementine can request that AJ kill her after she was bitten, although AJ doesn't go through with this. (Take Us Back)
Due to being in tremendous pain from his burns, Lloyd asks Clementine to mercy kill him. (Take Us Back)
During a supply run Hap Abernathy is bitten on the right ankle by a walker and while Bob Stookey tries to amputate the limb, Hap give up and shoots himself in the head. (Descent)
In order to turn away a herd from Woodbury, Meredith Dupree draws in most of the walkers and blows herself up along with several hundred of them. (Descent)
Daryl and Andrea encounter a man who had hung himself after getting bitten but had still turned as he didn't destroy his brain. Daryl reluctantly puts him down in exchange for an answer from Andrea about her own suicidal feelings. (Bloodletting)
After witnessing her zombified mother and half-brother get shot, Beth Greene loses hope in the world and tries to commit suicide by slashing her own wrists. (18 Miles Out)
Clara commits suicide by stabbing herself in the abdomen with her knife, so that she could turn into a walker and be with her undead husband, Eddie. (30 Days Without An Accident)
Big Tony and his employees enter into a suicide pact at some point after the outbreak with Tony hanging himself and the other three drinking antifreeze. While looking for a battery at Big Tony's Express Mart, the four are found reanimated and put down by Daryl, Michonne and Bob Stookey. While their suicide disgusts Daryl, Bob is more sympathetic to their plight in the world that they live in and he suggests that the four wanted to go out as they had lived: together. (Indifference)
The Governor is sitting at the campsite he, along with Caesar Martinez and Shumpert, set up by the Military Outpost. A female walker approaches him. She falls into the fire and proceeds to crawl towards him, but he does not react. In a state of clear depression and nihilism, Philip didn't care what happened to him at the moment and was ready for his ticket to get punched. This is until Martinez comes up and shoots the walker for him. (Live Bait)
The Governor is ready to give up and falls to the ground. Whether he's ran over, eaten by a walker or shot, he was ready to die. That is until he notices Meghan watching him from a window. (Live Bait)
During the outbreak, Bill Jenkins commits suicide by shooting himself in the head. However, as he had failed to destroy his brain, he reanimates. (Live Bait)
Joan opens her recently amputated arm wound with scissors to prevent further rape from Gorman. She reanimates and is later put down by Dawn Lerner, but not before killing Gorman and Jeffries. (Slabtown)
Gabriel Stokes encounters a walker with a noose around his neck and trailing a broken rope, suggesting that the man had hung himself and the rope broke. (Conquer)
Trapped on top of a dumpster by a herd of walkers, Nicholas shoots himself in the head after saying "Thank You" to Glenn for sparing his life. (Thank You)
After losing her husband, Betsy, an Alexandria resident, slashes her own wrists, killing herself. (Now)
Frankie and Tanya claim that Amber wants to commit suicide in order to get Eugene to make cyanide pills for them to use against Negan. However, after deducing the truth, Eugene refuses to give them the pills. (Hostiles and Calamities)
After Carl gets bit by a walker while helping Siddiq, he shoots himself to prevent himself from turning moments after giving his final goodbyes to Rick and Michonne. (Honor)
After the death of Henry, Lydia attempts suicide by almost letting a walker bite her on the arm and telling Carol to kill her. (The Storm)
Ezekiel contemplates suicide over all the problems he's facing like losing loved ones, the Kingdom, the growing concern of the Whisperers and his thyroid cancer. (Silence the Whisperers)
Michonne tells Ezekiel that early on in the apocalypse when she was alone, she wanted walkers to bite her at times. (Silence the Whisperers)
After getting bitten, Earl Sutton decides to commit suicide by driving his head into a railroad spike that he hammers through a table rather than risking harm to the kids that he rescued from the destruction of the Hilltop. However, Earl fails to destroy his brain and reanimates anyways, forcing Judith Grimes to put him down instead. (Walk With Us)
When a riot breaks out at the research facility on Bloodsworth Island over the food rations, Virgil locks everyone inside, not knowing his wife and children are there. With no hope of escape, Lisa hangs herself alongside her children and many other survivors. They are later put down by Michonne at the request of Virgil. (What We Become)
After being wounded and surrounded, the Attacker commits suicide by blowing himself up with a grenade. (Home Sweet Home)
After being surrounded by walkers and with Maggie and the others unwilling to help him, Gage stabs himself twice in the heart, killing himself before his corpse is devoured by the herd. Gage reanimates shortly thereafter, but he is eventually put down by Gabriel with a shotgun blast to the head. (Acheron: Part II)
Terrified about what might happen to his family if he talks, Wilson commits suicide by stabbing himself through the neck. (Outpost 22)
Pamela Milton tries to commit suicide after being overthrown by feeding herself to a zombified Lance Hornsby. However, Maggie shoots Lance in the head, keeping Pamela from taking the easy way out rather than being imprisoned for her crimes. (Rest in Peace)
George Geary hoards cyanide pills, intending to have his family commit suicide in order to stay together forever. After finding them by accident and believing them to be "power pills", Willa ingests the cyanide and dies. (We All Fall Down)
Alan begs Chris to kill him due to being severely injured in a plane crash. (Ouroboros)
Janis prepares to commit suicide to prevent herself from being devoured, but she is saved in the nick of time by Wes. (Leave What You Don't)
John Dorie prepares to commit suicide after fleeing from the Pioneers and returning to his cabin, not believing himself fit to live in a post-apocalyptic world. (The Door)
After suffering a severe leg injury, Rachel kills herself so that Rufus can lead her as a walker to other people. (The Beginning)
Morgan and Grace prepare to commit suicide, but stop after hearing the cries of a baby. (The Beginning)
Dakota allows herself to be consumed by a nuclear explosion. (The Beginning)
After becoming terminally ill with radiation sickness, Garcia throws himself from the Tower's roof so as to spare himself any further pain and to continue defending the Tower as a part of its walker moat. (Mourning Cloak)
Alicia Clark, while suffering from the walker bite infection, keeps a single bullet on her to commit suicide with before she can turn. She nearly does after finding Strand in the Tower, but stops after seeing a bird, which reminds her of Wilhemina and Madison`s story. After unexpectedly recovering from her illness, Alicia uses the bullet to put down a walker instead, no longer intending to kill herself. (Amina)
Madison has become suicidal seven years after helping Morgan to rescue Mo, trying to shoot herself in the mouth and slit her own throat. However, she is stopped by Shrike and Mo respectively. (Remember What They Took From You)
Following the death of their son, both Dwight and Sherry have become depressed and suicidal. Dwight begs what appears to be a hallucination of Daryl Dixon to kill him and later plans to die fighting off a large herd of walkers overrunning the Sanctuary to buy June, Sherry and Odessa Sanderson time. However, Sherry locks Dwight up, believing that PADRE needs him more. When trapped under a collapsed fence, Sherry appears to give up fighting and accept her fate before Dwight rescues her and they confront each other about their problems while fighting the herd together. The entire ordeal ultimately causes Dwight and Sherry to find a new hope for the future. (Sanctuary)
Believing himself to be a killer and a danger to his friends, Silas Plaskett attempts to commit suicide by allowing a walker to kill him rather than fighting back against it or running away. However, he is saved when Hope Bennett puts the walker down with her S-Pole. (The Sky Is a Graveyard)
Huck claims that a room at the Red Maple contains the dead bodies of the people who had lived there to Iris Bennett and mimes shooting herself in the head, implying that they had committed suicide. However, this just turns out to be a lie in order to keep the others from searching the room which has the supplies that they need. (The Deepest Cut)
Hope threatens to commit suicide in order to get Huck to comply with her demands. (In This Life)
With the CRM closing in and knowing that he's already mortally wounded, Dennis Graham asks Silas for his gun so that he can commit suicide. When Silas refuses to let Dennis kill himself, Dennis convinces a reluctant Silas to kill him instead so as to have Silas make himself look like a hero to the CRM. (The Last Light)
After realizing that this is no world for a child, Dee prepares to kill Lydia as an act of mercy and then to commit suicide. However, Dee is stopped when they are found and taken in by Hera and the Whisperers. (Dee)
After running out of food, Joel Armstrong shoots himself in the head in order to avoid starvation. His brother Perlie later finds his body. (Who's There?)
Negan and Perlie find a disturbing effigy that Perlie suggests was made by someone who had gone insane after the world had ended. The two later find the body of the insane survivor responsible for the effigy who had committed suicide by rigging a large axe to swing into his head while he was sitting in a chair. (Stories We Tell Ourselves)
Quinn reveals that the scars on Isabelle's wrists come from a suicide attempt where Isabelle had slashed her wrists in the bathtub. However, Quinn had found her, rushed Isabelle to the hospital, and nursed her back to health, saving Isabelle's life. (Paris Sera Toujours Paris)
Rick Grimes contemplates slitting his throat with a glass shard in his apartment, but ultimately decides not to go through with it. (Years)
In Greenwood, Rick and Michonne discover that Lakshmi Patel committed suicide by electrocution after being unable to bear watching the community fall. (What We)
