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Compare [[Thanatos Gambit]], [[My Death Is Just the Beginning]], [[Seppuku]], and [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]. Often overlaps with [[Cyanide Pill]] which could be considered a sub-trope (examples go there, not here).
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows]]'',
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* Dawn tries to pull one of these in the fifth season finale of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', when she realises that [[It Makes Sense in Context|a gateway to hell can only be closed if her blood stops flowing]]. She is saved when Buffy realises [[Take a Third Option|she can achieve the same effect by killing herself in Dawn's place]]. Buffy's sacrifice could thus also be thought of as an example.
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''
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* On ''[[Angel]]'' Darla (a vampire) stakes herself so that her and Angel's 100% human son can be born.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Waters of Mars", the Doctor changes history to rescue someone doomed to die, which causes him to go totally [[A God Am I]] with megalomania. His rescuee kills herself in order to stop him, after which he snaps out of it.
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* In ''[[Sherlock]]'' Moriarty invokes this
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