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* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', {{spoiler|after the end of the series; Homura wants nothing more than to be with Madoka; and this will only happen if her Soul Gem goes dark. She will not let this happen, because she has expanded her desire to protect Madoka to protecting the world that Madoka loves. Thus we see her in the end fighting Demons with a level of power and possibly darkness that would have killed any other magical girl instantly.}}
* In the manga version of ''[[Elfen Lied]]'': {{spoiler|Lucy decides the last thing she will do is protect Kouta, just before the American army decides to bomb Japan to get rid of her. She takes out a whole fleet of aircraft, one by one, all while suffering [[Phlebotinum Breakdown]], literally causing the flesh to melt off her body. Not until every last plane has been taken down does she let herself die, by which time she's little more than a puddle of goop with half a face}}.
* In ''[[Hellsing (Manga)|Hellsing]]'', Alucard has an unfulfilled contract with the Hellsing family, meaning he can never really leave England or stop fighting (not that he wants to do the former). And he's [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|functionally immortal, so]]...
* [[Failure Knight|Zest]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS'', who still needs to confront his old friend and learn {{spoiler|the reason behind the [[Clone Degeneration|death of his original]] together with the rest of his squad}}, {{spoiler|[[Reverse Mole|backstab Jail Scaglietti]]}}, then make sure his charges will be safe afterward before he could finally [[Death Seeker|seek his final honor as a knight]].
* ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'' has Brook, who openly expressed in his introductory arc that he has desired to die (again) for the previous fifty years. Considering that he's been turned into an undead monster and all his friends are dead and he's been trapped in a dark inescapable place completely alone ever since (oh, and he's quite mad too), it's hard to blame him. But see, he made this promise...
* Played with in ''[[Monster (Mangamanga)|Monster]]'', to put it gently. {{spoiler|Johan ultimately wants to die, but he must destroy Bonaparta first.}}
* Hohenheim of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Mangamanga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', after learning of his wife's death and her last words being that she couldn't die with him, says that he hopes to join her once Father has been defeated. Riza says that if Roy goes against his ideals, such as {{spoiler|killing Envy for the sake of vengeance}}, she will kill him, then commit suicide after the battle is over.
* In ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Anime)|Mobile Fighter G Gundam]]'', Sai Saici asks Argo whether the latter is prepared to lose his life in combat. Argo doesn't back down from fighting the Dark Gundam's forces, but says that he can't afford to lose his life as long as he hasn't rescued his friends yet.
 
 
== Fanfic ==
* In ''[[Winter War (Fanfic)|Winter War]]'', Captain Ukitake's [[Incurable Cough of Death]] has become significantly worse due to exposure to a chemical weapon, his best friend is MIA and probably taken captive, and the order he's devoted his life to has collapsed. He's tired enough that he wouldn't mind dying that much- especially in something approximating a fair fight, rather than the [[Dirty Business|traps and dishonorable battles]] he's had to employ against Gin's forces. Unfortunately, he's also the only shinigami captain left alive, in Soul Society, and not on Aizen's side- so he steps up to become the leader of [[La Résistance]]. At this point, he's living only for his people and his duty.
* Emiya Shirou in [[The Hill of Swords]]. The titular 'Hill of Swords' is where he knows he'll meet his end. He keeps seeking it out, but he can't find the opponent that can kill him {{spoiler|until the end.}}
 
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== Film ==
 
* After seeing his wife and child crucified and losing his freedom, Maximus of ''[[Gladiator (Filmfilm)|Gladiator]]'' seems to view his quest for vengeance against Commodus this way:
{{quote| '''Maximus:''' "You see, my wife and my son are already waiting for me."<br />
'''Juba:''' "You will meet them again. But not yet. Not yet." }}
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* [[Frankenstein]] intends to hunt his monster to the end of the Earth and destroy it before allowing himself to succumb to despair and embrace the oblivion of death. The monster, for its part, literally does lead Frankenstein to the end of the Earth; they are both last seen in the Arctic Circle.
* Both Frodo and Sam in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', in different ways. Frodo is committed to carrying on towards Mount Doom--ultimately even crawling on hands and knees--despite a long, quietly deepening certainty that the quest is hopeless. Sam tends to take a more one-day-at-a-time approach, but when he finds Frodo, apparently killed by Shelob, his first instinct is to consider suicide, or be cut down by Orcs defending Frodo's body. Only with great reluctance does he realize that the responsibility to destroy the ring trumps his personal despair and resolves to carry on alone. Often, later, he regrets bitterly that the two of them cannot just "lie down and go to sleep." Sam, incidentally, does recover his will to live an ordinary life, while Frodo doesn't.
* In ''[[The Inheritance Cycle|Brisingr]]'', Eragon actually {{spoiler|FORCES Sloan to do this until he gets to the Elves, as atonement for betraying the Varden.}}
* Rand al'Thor in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' epitomizes this trope {{spoiler|until the end of book twelve.}}
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* The House of Responsible Life from the [[Liavek]] anthologies is a religion built around this trope. The members of the religion (popularly known as [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|the Green Priests]]) are sworn to kill themselves, but only after discharging all worldly obligations. Very few of them get around to it, and at least one eventually decides that living is worth it after all.
* Camaris in ''[[Memory, SorrowandSorrow, and Thorn]]'' is this after being reawakened from his [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|simpleminded state]], which was itself a result of a [[Heroic BSOD]] that [[Driven to Suicide|drove him to attempt suicide]]. He fights to save the world as hard as anyone else, but feels that simply being forced to live is yet another punishment meted out by God for his sins. His fate at the end is unknown.
* In the [[Sword of Truth]], Kahlan, Zedd, Rachel, and Chase walked for three days without sleep in the first book. At the beginning of the next book, Zedd lampshades this. Richard did one of these for two ''weeks'' on horseback in the second. For reference, after 72 hours without sleep, humans hallucinate such that they are as incapacitated as if they were drunk.
 
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* Towards the end of season five of ''[[Supernatural]]'' Dean is sick and tired of fighting, and just wants to die...but the angels have made it clear they'd just bring him back. His only out is to agree to {{spoiler|participate in the apocalypse}}, which he won't do because of the collateral damage. {{spoiler|Lucifer}} makes much the same threat to Sam.
* The ''[[Babylon Five5]]'' episode "Comes the Inquisitor", Sheridan and Delenn are tested by an inquisitor sent by the Vorlons, eventually revealed to be {{spoiler|Jack the Ripper.}} He is depicted as having acted in part out of moral judgementalism, and as a result was picked up by the Vorlons in a random act of poetic justice, and forced to sort out the truly righteous from the simply self-righteous.
{{quote| "I have done four hundred years of penance and service, a job for which they said I was ideally suited. Now, perhaps, they will finally let me die."}}
 
== Manhwa ==
 
* Ivan Isaacs of ''[[Priest (Manhwamanhwa)|Priest]]''. He wants nothing more than to be with his dead girlfriend again, but he still has to complete his [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] and apparently the [[Big Bad]] has worked Ivan's fate into his plans, and intentionally keeps him alive so Ivan can fulfill his role.
 
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== Web Original ==
* [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] has admitted to his job making him feel so very tired. Add that to a sharp decrease in tantrum-my suicides and how close he gets to being an [[Empty Shell]] when he's depressed, and you get someone who's given up.
 
 
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== Video Games ==
 
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots]]'': Between his accelerated aging and {{spoiler|the threat of the mutant Fox Die causing a pandemic}}, Snake knows he's not going to be around much longer, but he still has to take out Liquid first.
* Auron in ''[[Final Fantasy X (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X]]'' {{spoiler|actually died trying to avenge his friends ''before'' the game, then as an Unsent}} lived for ten years [[Unfinished Business|so he could guide his friends' kids to finish the job]].
 
== Real Life ==
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