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** He's also nearing his [[Number of the Beast|666'th]] birthday (depending on when the book Hermione was reading from was published).
* Paulo Coelho's ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Veronica Decides To Die]]''. The titular character decides that she's seen all that there is to be seen in life (at age 24), and that once she gets old, everything will only go downhill from there.
* Subverted in ''[[Isaac Asimov|Robots and Empire]]''. Gladia describes to a Settler how the long-lived Spacers someday reach a point when life becomes boring, and they feel they have seen it all. However, when he asks her how common suicide is on her planet, the answer is "Zero. We are surrounded by [["Three Laws
* Referenced in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe]]''. The planet Ursa Minor Beta is so beautiful that when a travel guide announced, "When you are tired of Ursa Minor Beta you are tired of life", the suicide rate there quadrupled overnight.
* ''[[Strata]]'' by [[Terry Pratchett]] has really good life-extension treatment that effectively leads to immortality. People still tend to die after three hundred years or so, though. Generally it's not ''technically'' suicide, it's just that they get bored enough that only increasingly risky stunts hold any interest for them, and eventually the risk doesn't pan out.
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