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What can you do when you've seen it all? Not much except kill yourself, apparently. After all, there's nothing in the world you'd really want to see twice.
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In [[Real Life]], people sometimes say things like, [[Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter!|"I'm ready, Jesus,"]] if something momentous has just happened -- meant to indicate that they're ready to die, but without the rather jarring effect of pulling a weapon out of thin air and actually doing the job.
 
A subtrope of [[Suicide Asas Comedy]].
 
For the more serious and dramatic situation when a character decides to die because they've seen and done everything and can't see anything in their future but crushing boredom, see [[Nothing Left to Do But Die]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* A random demon audience member in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga)|Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' proclaims "Somebody kill me, now I've seen everything!" after witnessing an apparent one-shot kill.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* Invoked at the end of ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Shards of Honor]]''. Emperor Ezar Vorbarra, expecting to be dead within the week, engages in a bit of [[Gallows Humor]] with Lord Aral Vorkosigan, who has just suggested the Minister of the Interior as a possible Regent for soon-to-be-Emperor Gregor: "So you do have something good to say for my Ministers after all. I may die now; I've heard everything." He doesn't die immediately, but after he's recruited Aral as Regent, he falls back in exhaustion, implying he's not long for the world. (In ''Barrayar'', Ezar hangs on just long enough to see Aral confirmed as Regent, after which he finally succumbs to his long illness.)
* Subverted in the first [[Erast Fandorin]] novel: this ''looks'' like the cause of the suicide on the first pages, but there is a ''lot'' more to it.
* Played for drama in ''[[Haunted 2005 (Literature)|Haunted 2005]]''. The Nightmare Box supposedly shows the "truth" of reality, driving people who look into it insane and eventually to suicide.
* In [[The Dark Tower (Literature)/Wizard and Glass|Wizard and Glass]], a saloon singer, while witnessing an epic [[Mexican Standoff]], declares, [[Unusual Euphemism|"You can take me to the path at the end of the clearing, cuz now I've seen it all."]] She doesn't kill herself, but she does remain standing on a stool in the middle of a bar that's probably about to see a gunfight, claiming that getting shot at this point would be totally [[Worth It]].
 
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Chainsawsuit]]'': [http://chainsawsuit.com/2010/05/14/the-coveted-all-award/ The All-Award: the totality of human achievement.] The recipient of the award celebrates by leaping into an open grave.
* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' Dracula is carefully planning one of these. But before he dies, he wants to know what awaits him on the other side.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the [[Looney Tunes (Animation)|Warner Brothers]] adaptation of ''[[Dr. Seuss|Horton Hatches the Egg]]'', a fish (a caricature of Peter Lorre) does this after seeing Horton, sitting on a nest in his tree, going by on the deck of a freighter.
** A number of other [[Looney Tunes (Animation)|Looney Tunes]] cartoons employ more or less the same gag, usually with the antagonist offing himself in response to something outrageous. Bob Clampett loved doing this gag in particular as many of his cartoons featured this. (The picture above is from Clampett's ''An Itch in Time''.) Of course, since the 1970s [[Moral Guardians]] - afraid that children might procure firearms and, on a lark, blow their own brains out - have edited most of these scenes out for TV airings.
** Tex Avery's ''Cross Country Detours'' has a scene where the narrator states, "Here's the sound of a frog croaking" where the frog then pulls out a gun and shoots himself in the head.
** ''Ballot Box Bunny'' ends with [[Bugs Bunny]] and Sam playing [[Russian Roulette]] after losing an election to a (literal) "dark horse."
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* Wolfie in Tex Avery's ''[[Red Hot Riding Hood]]'', which is never shown nowadays. Ironic when you consider the original planned ending where Wolfie and Grandma have a family was apparently too shocking (you know with [[Half-Human Hybrid|cubs]] implying certain [[Interspecies Romance|relations]]) and changed in favor of this one.
* ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' has something very similar to this. One episode deals with the group learning to be stand-up comedians from a strange old sea captain. After they put on a good performance, he says "Well, can't teach them no more," pulls out a gun, and blows his brains out. [[Animation Age Ghetto|Despite being an animated series]], this is decidedly ''not'' cartoonish.
* Cartman from [[South Park (Animation)|South Park]] makes an attempt [[Take That|after watching]] [[High School Musical]].
{{quote| '''Cartman''' ''(brightly)'': Well, I'm out, guys. [[Hype Backlash|If this is what's cool now]] I think I'm done. I no longer have any connection to this world. I'm going to go home and kill myself. Goodbye, friends.}}