Suicide

Suicide is the act of taking one's own life. People may take their own lives for many reasons. In Japan and China, as well as many other cultures, suicide was considered a correct response to shaming or dishonoring oneself or one's family, and in certain situations, was expected. In modern times, the high suicide rate in Japan is considered a national problem. In the Fatal Frame Series, suicide has been portrayed as a means to escape an impending disaster, as means of atonement for misdeeds, or part of an act within a specific ritual.

The following is a list of suicides within the Fatal Frame series.

Fatal Frame

• Himuro Family Master - committed suicide in regret after killing the survivors in Himuro Mansion after the ritual's failure.
• Yae Munakata - hanged herself after the disappearance of her daughter and a struggle with overexposure.
• Miyuki Hinasaki - hanged herself as the result of overexposure.
• Broken Neck - threw herself off the Moon Observatory, into the Cherry Atrium, to avoid the Himuro Family Master's rampage.
• Tokitada Kyuki - killed himself after trying and failing to prevent the Strangling Ritual.

Fatal Frame II

• Itsuki Tachibana - hanged himself in the Storehouse after helping Sae and Yae escape.
• Broken Neck Woman - threw herself off the Heaven Bridge to escape the Darkness.
• Fallen Woman - went insane and jumped off the top of a staircase in the Kiryu House.
• Man in Shadows - according to the Spirit List, he took his own life to avoid the Repentance.

Fatal Frame III

• Tengai Narumi - committed suicide (probably by stabbing himself with his hatchet) in the Stained Corridor trying to stop the Rift from spreading.
• Hisame Kuze - possibly committed suicide, as it states in her diary, "I'm going to sleep now. Forever and ever..."
• Inverted Woman - according to the Spirit List, she threw herself off a roof.
• Drowned Man - according to the Spirit List, he drowned himself to escape the Miasma.

Fatal Frame IV

• Shigeto Haibara's wife - jumped off the roof of Haibara Infirmary (suffering from Getsuyuu Disease).
• Tomoko Hinuma - drowned herself in the pool in Rogetsu Hall's courtyard (suffering from Getsuyuu Disease).
• Yoriko Sonohara - hanged herself inside her room (suffering from Getsuyuu Disease).
• Unknown nurse - committed suicide after becoming overwhelmed by her duties on the sanatorium's fourth floor, tending to the patient there.

Fatal Frame V

In Fatal Frame V, the act of suicide itself has been ritualised on Mount Hikami, where the shrine maidens attend to people who wish to end their lives by witnessing their death and allowing them to become absorbed into the holy water of the mountain. After the mountain is cursed, the restless spirits of those who died on the mountain lure others there and compel them to die in the same way, making it difficult to differentiate between suicides and those who are spirited away. Prior to the events of the game, Yuri Kozukata attempted to kill herself by jumping off a cliff, but is prevented at the last second by Hisoka Kurosawa.

• Akari Narumi - jumped from a cliff for unknown reasons
• Fuyuhi Himino - compelled by a spirit to slit her own throat
• Hiori Magabuchi - jumped from a cliff while wearing her best kimono
• Guardians - shrine maidens who drown themselves in groups of five to protect the Reliquary of a more powerful maiden
• Kirika Reizen - slit her throat
• Kyozo Kururugi - set himself on fire and slit his throat
• Shino Kururugi - hanged herself after the death of her lover
• Tomoki Harakawa - meant to hang himself, but while he was contemplating his actions with the noose around his neck, another spirit made him fall

A Curse Affecting Only Girls

• Mio Takaishi - tried to drown herself with her lover, who survived.
• Takashi and Taruho Saginomiya - siblings who drowned themselves together after Taruho's murders were uncovered.