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* [[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 -- 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 ''[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.

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* 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 ''[[True Blood]]'', Godric, a bored 2000-year-old vampire, decides to stay in the sun.

** "Bored" may be the wrong word. Godric has seen human death and suffering in all variations, and his attempts to end vampire-human conflict goes poorly. He may just be tired of the futile cycles vampires and humans go through.

* [http://www.exitmundi.nl/suicide.htm This site] suggests the possibility that humanity could all one day evolve into a super intelligent [[Instrumentality|singularity]], learn everything there is to learn, get bored and decide to end their own existence.

* Apparently the result of drinking "the perfect drink" as brewed by [[SCP Foundation|SCP-294]].

* [[Raocow]], during his [[Let's Play]] of ''Vip 5'' (a ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'' hack). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imJIn6CD_W8&t=12m31s Upon seeing the overworld map for the first time,] he scrolls around the whole screen to look at everything, then he stops talking so he can hum along with the background music. Then:

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

** In another Jones cartoon, "[[The Scarlet Pumpernickel]]", [[Daffy Duck]]'s script ends with this: "There was nothing left for the Scarlet Pumpernickel to do but blow his brains out, which he does." And so does Daffy. Being ''[[Looney Tunes]]'', however, he recovered. "It's getting so you have to ''kill'' yourself to sell a story around here."

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

* ''[[Futurama]]'' does a version of this in "The Late Phillip J. Fry". After witnessing Earth become nothing more than a charred, dead planet and there being no way to get home, Fry suggests to Farnsworth and Bender that they might as well watch the universe end, and with nothing else to do, they agree.