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* This is [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Maiza's]] reasoning for approaching Firo and [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|asking the kid to kill him]] (more specifically, he's both [[Seen It All]] and finally received closure over his [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Little Brother]]) at the end of the first arc of ''[[Baccano!]]!''. Firo's response is to nod, smile...and then give a number of entirely bullshit reasons for why he [[2001: A Space Odyssey|can't do that, Dave]], before admitting that he really just doesn't want to lose his mentor.

* One of the possible motivations for {{spoiler|Morpheus's}} probable suicide in ''[[Sandman]]''.

* The plot of [[Cory Doctorow]]'s novel ''[[Down and Out Inin Thethe Magic Kingdom]]'' is driven by a character's desire to commit suicide after succeeding in his life's mission to convince every human being on earth to join the Bitchun Society, [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|since they cured death a long time ago]]. Because he put it off too long for it to count as going out with a bang, he couldn't go through with it, and so the protagonist spends the rest of the book helping him try to top it.

** His millions of descendants, who practically worship him, {{spoiler|manage to develop two things; a pair of [[Opposite SexGender Clone|female clones]] of him, and a time machine}}.

* [[H. Beam Piper]] wrote a story titled "Last Enemy," about a culture that had accepted reincarnation as a scientifically proven fact. As a result, they'd developed a rather ''different'' attitude toward death -- itdeath—it was, at worst, a (temporary) inconvenience; often enough, it was a social event. "Evidently when the Akor-Neb people get tired of their current reincarnation they invite in their friends, throw a big party, and then do themselves in in an atmosphere of general conviviality."

* [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131020115022/http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-answer/ The Last Answer]'' (not to be confused with the more widely known ''The Last Question'') deals with a superior entity which turns out to have created universe and everything in it, but isn't in fact any sort of god as imagined by humankind. It has grown to know everything, with the exception of anything concerning its own origin and ending. Thus it collects countless intellects from the universe, and gives them just one thing to do: think. The intellects soon find out that they can do nothing else as they are disembodied, and even suicide is easily reversed by the entity; left with no alternatives, all the intellects eventually resolve to find a way to destroy the entity so they themselves can cease existing. The entity is satisfied, for that is exactly why it has created the intellects in the first place.

* Shows up in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', where one member of the Q continuum, [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|bored from reliving eternity from start to finish]], begs sanctuary on Voyager so as to be able to commit suicide. {{spoiler|Which he eventually manages, with the help of the Q who had originally argued against him.}} A quite literal case of committing suicide after having seen everything. Multiple times. From every possible point of view.

* In the "''[[The Twilight Zone|Twilight Zone]]"'' episode Time Enough at Last, Henry Bemis is the only survivor of an H-bomb. Since almost everything is destroyed, there is not much to do. This upsets Bemis and he pounds his hands on his knees and says "If only there was something to do!" He sees a gun and puts it up to his head to shoot himself, but he sees a library and doesn't shoot himself.

* Matthew Sweet's song "Someone to Pull the Trigger" (the title an example of [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]}), which includes the line, "Everything I'll ever be, I've been."

* Not quite suicide, but similar: in the Classic ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons|D&D]]'' game, characters who attain supreme Immortal status, but get bored with playing super-godlings, can forfeit their Immortality to be reborn as a mortal again. Characters who do this once, then work their way up to supreme Immortal status ''again'', [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]] and are permanently removed from play.

* After [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] poked [[And Then What?|a MASSIVE hole]] in {{spoiler|Missingno's plan to absorb all of existance}}existence, he followed that up by suggesting {{spoiler|that it kill itself}}. ''And it works.''

* ''[[Justice League: Crisis Onon Two Earths]]'': Owlman becomes an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] through an extreme version of this trope.

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