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* The short science fiction story ''[[The Cold Equations]]'' is [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"|famous for]] its Downer Ending: there really isn't a way to save the girl, and she goes out the airlock willingly so the spaceship doesn't crash.
* Speaking of short science fiction stories: ''Stories Of Your Life And Others'' by Ted Chiang includes "Hell Is The Absence Of God,". A skeptic and cripple who despises God on account of all the horrible misfortunes in his life is struck by a genuine [[Beam of Enlightenment]], which makes him love God unconditionally and supposedly guarantees his entrance to Heaven... and then moments later he dies and is arbitrarily sent to Hell, where the titular absence of God inflicts constant [[Mind Rape]] on his now deity-loving psyche... forever.
** ''Stories Of Your Life And Others'' also contains the short "Division By Zero," which you can read for free [https://web.archive.org/web/20130112204225/http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/division/full/ here.] Though this could more be considered a downer book, and is especially disturbing if you've studied a maths-based subject to any extent.
* ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' and all their adaptions by extension. C'mon, they kill themselves at the end when if Romeo had waited just one more single minute he would have seen Juliet was [[Not Quite Dead|not dead]] and they could have gone off into the sunset together.
** One of the movie adaptations makes it even ''worse''. Juliet wakes up ''while Romeo is still alive'', but he has already drunk the poison. So he dies knowing that his death was ''completely pointless''. As if the original ending wasn't enough of a downer.
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