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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==

* For ''[[The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)|The Legend of Zelda]]'', in Kasuto of Kataan's "[http://kasuto.net/fanfic.php?main=fanfic/eternity.html&top=fanfic/eternitymenu.html Eternity]", the villain is attempting to kill herself with a special spell {{spoiler|which would happen to kill several million bystanders}} after realizing that immortality is actually a curse since the world is boring after living for a really long time. She had already tried every other conventional method and failed.

* In [[The Hill of Swords]], a crossover between [[Fate Stay Night]] and [[Zero no Tsukaima (Light Novel)|Zero no Tsukaima]], Shirou [[Up to Eleven|outperforms]] Saito's [[Last Stand]], {{spoiler|and ends up dying after having pretty much wiped out an army of 70,000 soldiers.}} He went into the battle for this reason:

{{quote| {{spoiler|And as he stood upon the battle fields, she thought back to his oath: [[I Will Wait for You|to be reunited with his love upon a hill of swords.]] To be reunited with his lover. His lover was dead. [[Together in Death|And it was only through battle that he could finally join her again. When he too was dead]].}} }}

** Marcus is explicitly described as a death seeker. He gets his wish.

** With at least six attempts at heroic sacrifice or suicide and the mother of all unaddressed guilt complexes, Delenn is an implicit embodiment of this trope.

** The sanguine manner in which he {{spoiler|meets his execution by firing squad}} seems to confirm this.

* ''[[House (TV)|House]]''. While not as actively suicidal as some of the other examples, his self-destructiveness is leading him towards an early death, his curiosity exceeds his regard for his own life, the issue of him not caring if he dies and not feeling like he deserves to live (or be happy) has come up several times and he even says he would rather be dead than deal with all the crap in his life anymore in the Season Four finale.

* ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' has the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Klingons]], whose religion holds that to get into Sto-Vo-Kor (their equivalent of Heaven...or more accurately, Valhalla) one has to die in honorable combat. "Today is a good day to die" is basically the motto of the entire species. A Klingon warrior who lives to old age will tend to get more extreme about this. A specific example of this is shown late in ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine (TV)|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'', with [[Old Master|Dahar Master]] Kor. During the Dominion War arc he desperately wants to be sent into combat so that he can have a chance to die honorably, but he's made so many enemies over the years that nobody is willing to let him join the war.

** Like the Vikings below, there ''are'' loopholes. For example, when Jadzia dies her Klingon husband, Worf, collects friends and goes into battle in her honor, which in Klingon religion can earn the deceased passage to Sto-Vo-Kor. (Paralleling the medieval Christian doctrine of substitution, wherein if you had committed more sin than you could do penance for in a lifetime, you could work it off by various more active things, like crusading or helping to build a church, which devolved into the outright-purchase papal indulgences Luther found so offensive. Or someone else could transfer ''their'' merit to you, which is why rich people endowed monasteries and where that 'pray for the souls of the dead' thing originates. [[And Now You Know]].)

* [[Human Target]]: people from [[The Atoner|Christopher Chance]]'s [[Career Killers|old life]] are ''constantly'' accusing him of being this, often using this exact phrase. Given his new line of work, they sort of have a point. His clients sometimes ask him the same question, too:

{{quote| '''Mrs. Pucci''': "Everyone's afraid to die, Mr. Chance... unless, of course, for some reason they think they deserve it."}}

* ''[[CSI (TV)|CSI]]'' has a guy ironically wearing a [[Red Shirt|red shirt]] who is the criminal of the day. I don't remember the episode, but he thinks he killed his girlfriend, and wants to join her in death. The catch? Even in a gun store filled with armed people, all shooting at him and no one else, the man won't die. Even when he jumps off a building at the end, he's caught in a safety trampoline.

 

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