Tongue Suicide
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A type of suicide that sometimes shows up in eastern works. Need to kill yourself in a hurry without using your hands? Just bite your tongue really hard! It’s like having a stored a Cyanide Pill in your mouth, but you don’t need to prepare in advance.
An involuntary similar action might be preformed (in fiction) by someone undergoing a seizure, although in this case the concern is being swallowed, not bitten off (although this is a myth https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2014/06/swallowing-your-tongue-and-other-epilepsy-myths/ ).
Examples of Tongue Suicide include:
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Anime and Manga
- Mentioned as a course of action in episode 25 of Kill la Kill.
- One Piece
- A slave does this while he is being sold, as he considers slavery a Fate Worse Than Death. He doesn’t die instantly and in fact can presumably be saved if he receives immediate medical attention.
- After being caught after an escape attempt, Mr 3 suspects he’ll be tortured and says he’ll bite off his tongue.
- In the 15th episode of the english dub of Samurai Champloo someone is described as having “bit off his own tongue and then killed himself"
- In Naruto, the character Tsunami volunteers to be taken hostage by Gato’s men and tells them if they touch her son then she’d kill herself by biting her tongue.