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** Another example from ''Animorphs'' is [[Sixth Ranger Traitor|David]] by the end of his last book. Abandoned by Crayak, betrayed by his henchmen and still condemned to [[Fate Worse Than Death|live out the rest of his days as a rat]], he tearfully begs Rachel to end his misery.
* In ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]'', Galbatorix became one after the death of his first dragon, but then stopped after he got the idea that he might be able to convince the elders to give him another dragon. And once, that didn't work, [[Big Bad|well...]]
* In the opening chapters of ''The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax'', the first ''[[Mrs. Pollifax]]'' novel by [[Dorothy Gilman]], the title character, weighed down by being a suburban widow with no real meaning to her life, shows signs of this -- she very nearly commits suicide at one point, and even when trying to realize a childhood dream by applying for a job as a spy with the CIA emphasizes how she is expendable and can be sacrificed to save the life of a younger, better-trained agent. Fortunately, once she finds herself in real danger, this part of her personality vanishes and she becomes supremely competent at staying alive.
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