One thing Ari Aster nails is GORE
Whether it's the ant-ridden decapitated head of Charlie in Hereditary, or Midsommar's old ritual suicide couple and the aftermath of their fall onto the ground below, he sure knows how to shock viewers - the old man's survival, despite smashed legs, until he was bludgeoned in the head by a mallet is enough reminder not to consider actual suicide that way.