A part of Lifetime's "Ripped from the Headlines" feature film series, it tells the story of a successful marketer who fakes her own death after her controlling, abusive husband hires a hitman to kill her when she decides to leave him.

Ed tears up a dress that Jade bought to wear to accept an award at her job, and hits, chokes, and throws her across their bedroom while accusing her of cheating on him with her coworker, Liam.

Jade takes several measures to psychologically torment Ed, including sending him their wedding video from an unknown number, making an anniversary dinner reservation at Ed's favorite restaurant (where she leaves a bouquet of white flowers), replacing the slides in a slideshow he made for work with pictures of a skull superimposed over Jade's face, and sneaking into his house to leave her torn up dress on his bed and fill his closet with her clothes.

Ed develops a drinking problem and starts to show signs of slipping, like choking his new girlfriend, Diane, after confusing her for Jade, forgetting to pick Kayla up from her babysitter, and being too shaky to perform surgery, which causes him to take a leave of absence from his job.

[1] Meagan Good said that she chose to star in the film because, as someone who had been in an abusive relationship where she was unable to speak up about it, she wanted to be a part of a project that could "shift the way that someone sees these survivors" and "invoke compassion and can inspire other women".

[2] According to Bustle, Death Saved My Life was likely based on the story of Noela Rukundo, a Burundian-Australian woman whose husband hired a hitman to kill her.

Additional filming took place throughout New Jersey, including in Knight Park in Collingswood, at the Aloft Hotel in Mount Laurel, and in Oaklyn, Paterson, and Ramsey.

[5] Jennifer Green of Common Sense Media gave Death Saved My Life three out of five stars, calling it "well-acted" and highlighting the performances of the Good sisters as "convincing" and Okonkwo's performance as "charming", but writing that certain scenarios in the film were "slightly far-fetched" and criticizing the "unnecessary" time jumps and "stilted" dialogue at the beginning of the film.