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* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Gaunt's Ghosts]]'' novels, {{spoiler|Soric}} is [[Fate Worse Than Death|handed over to the Black Ships]]. Several books later, he communicates with Hark, who finds him, [[Manly Tears|cries]] (which all the deaths in all the books have not drawn from him), and at his request, kills him. (He makes it look like an execution at {{spoiler|Soric's}} request, to save himself.)

* In [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', when Fingon tries to rescue Maedhros from Morgoth after [[Cold-Blooded Torture]], and it looks like he won't succeed. (However, in the end, Fingon frees him by cutting his hand off.)

** In Asimov's short story "All the Troubles of the World," the computer Multivac, which manages all of humanity, tries to use a [[Thanatos Gambit]] to arrange for itself to be destroyed.

* In William King's [[Warhammer 40000]] [[Space Wolf]] novel ''Ragnar's Claw'', when they go through the plague-stricken city, they walk through the dead, and the half-dead, many of whom plead for death. Gul kills one, but looks at the number of them and goes on with the rest.