This essay, based on a hermeneutic analysis of the American series 13 Reasons Why (2017, season 1), aims to explore the truth of self through Hannah Baker’s post-mortem narrative and its psychological impact on the bereaved characters in the story. On one hand, her sharing reveals a tragic and illuminating experience of her suicidal process. On the other hand, it also mobilizes a quest for both objective and subjective truth among the bereaved, allowing some of them to elucidate their personal issues through co-construction of meaning. The result is a restorative relational ideal that, in our view, promotes the representation of resilient bereavement. This preliminary study hopes to shed new light on the first season of this television series, which was widely criticized in the media because of the risk of suicidal “contagion” in vulnerable populations. We conclude with the importance of deepening the themes of human fragility, self-transformation and relational improvement as a way to highlight the educational potential of a television series that addresses, with depth and sensitivity, the complexity of our relationship to life and death.