"Seen It All" Suicide: Difference between revisions

* 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/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]].