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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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Warning: This is a [[Death Trope]]. Expect ''lots'' of unmarked spoilers.
 
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows]]'', {{spoiler|Harry}} lets Voldemort kill him after discovering that {{spoiler|he is one of the [[Soul Jar|Horcruxes]]}}, and that Voldemort cannot be killed as long as he survives.
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
* 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.
* {{spoiler|Al Gough}} on ''[[FlashForward]]'' learns that in the future an innocent woman will die due to his actions, so he jumps off a building so as to [[Screw Destiny]] so it can never happen.
* In ''[[Sherlock]]'' Moriarty invokes this {{spoiler|by setting up Sherlock to be "exposed" as a fraud and telling him that if he doesn't commit suicide by jumping off a building, a group of assassins he's hired will kill his friends (Sherlock appears to jump, but he's revealed to still be alive at the very end).}} Also an inversion in that {{spoiler|Moriarty shoots himself to prevent Sherlock from foiling his [[Evil Plan]] by forcing him to call the assassins off.}}
 
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