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== [[Literature]] ==

* [[Larry Niven]] wrote a short story set in the Draco Tavern called ''The Schumann Computer'' where the title AI does this. The builders/investors are then told that this eventually happens to ''every'' AI.

* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'', 2,000 year old Lazarus Long thinks he really has seen it all and decides to die. He only agrees to continue living if ''someone'' can find ''something'' he hasn't yet experienced.

* In ''[[Harry Potter]]'', Nicolas and Perenelle Flamel okay the destruction of the Philosopher's Stone because they've had enough of life and are ready to move on. Of course, this choice is less remarkable than most because they've both been alive since the fourteenth century.

** He's also nearing his [[Number of the Beast|666'th]] birthday (depending on when the book Hermione was reading from was published).

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* Happened in ''[[Exalted]]''- in the First Age, some Celestial Exalted died because they were just bored and wanted to start over.

* Some tabletop RPG players, not realizing that it's possible to simply ''retire'' a player character if they've gotten bored with it, have had their PCs commit suicide so they can roll up a new one.

* In ''[[Scion]]'', there's a character named Niobe. Ever hear the story from [[Greek Mythology]] about how the gods created a cloud that looked like Hera to test Ixion's intentions? She was that cloud. She's lived for thousands of years, taken hundreds of husbands and borne thousands of children, and she can't die. Even if someone kills her, she comes back a few minutes later. Players can get on her good side by either rejuvenating her will to live or coming up with a way to end her life for good. (A major reason to do so: she ''always'' knows where the Golden Fleece is.)

* [[Chuck Jones]]' ''Cheese Chasers'' uses this and [["Seen It All" Suicide]]. Two mice discover that they have eaten every type of cheese there is and decide to commit suicide by cat. Their efforts cause the cat to go mad and try to commit its own suicide by letting a bulldog "massacre" him, driving the dog mad as well.

** 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."

{{quote|'''Owlman:''' It doesn't matter.}}

* ''[[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.

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