"Seen It All" Suicide: Difference between revisions

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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.

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.

 

 

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]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

 

== [[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.

* 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]].

 

== [[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.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** 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."

* 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.

{{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.}}