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* A common cause of death in [[The Culture]]: some people are immortal and almost everyone lives for hundreds of years.... but when they feel that they've seen it all, they typically decided to end their lives painlessly.
* In ''Dream Science'', a novel about people who have somehow become detached from normal reality into a fractured group of partial alternate reality scenes (some apparently-normal alternate worlds, but also things like an office in a square hallway that has no exit, or an endless department store), death only sends these people into a new reality. After a while, people who are bored with their current world or can't find another way out tend to just kill themselves.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel ''Interference'', Fitz gets a severe case of the [[Cloning Blues]]: separated from the Doctor, he's had to take up with a group of people who, after their members die, will just [[Replacement Goldfish|make a new one]]. Later copies become more and more simplified, but he theorizes that they all have a significant part of the person's personality at the time they were first copied in them, and he doesn't [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|live indefinitely]] with a personality he's developed after decades on a planet he doesn't much like. So he decides to jump off a building... but he decides to take advantage of the fact [[Waxing Lyrical|you can take it or leave it if you please]] and doesn't go through with it.
* Since everyone has [[Resurrective Immortality]], "suiciding" is a frequently-used way to get a new body in ''[[Biting the Sun]]''.
 
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* In the ''[[House (TV)|House]]'' episode "97 Seconds", House sticks a knife in an electrical socket so he can have a near-death experience and prove there is no afterlife after one patient claims his experience was proof and mocks House's skepticism as a lack of a similar experience. Besides being just plain weird, it's also very out of character for a man who already ''has'' had two near-death experiences. At least he sent a page to a fellow doctor to make sure he'd be revived. [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth|Hell probably would have sent him back anyway]].
* ''[[Life On Mars]]'': The famous -- and famously controversial -- series finale had Sam [[All Just a Dream|waking up in the real world]] and going back to his old job... only to realize that the world of 2008 is lifeless compared to the 1973 of the mind, and then to calmly get up, excuse himself from a meeting, and [http://youtube.com/watch?v=aOEfvMMcw_A take a flying leap] from the roof of the police station in an attempt to get back. He seems to succeed.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' Dualla, after the disappointing discovery of a ruined Earth, finds comfort with her ex-husband Lee, celebrates his big speech, goes back to her bunk, smiling and humming a little tune, admonishes Gaeta for trying to bring her down, then takes off her ring, hangs it up, and still humming and grinning, shoots herself in the head.
* In ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'' season 4, Regina wraps herself in chains and casually jumps off the freighter. It is implied she's not the only freightie to commit suicide lately.
* An episode of ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' introduced a tribe of young hedonists who celebrate their 22nd birthdays by hurling themselves off a cliff- AKA "Taking The Stone". It's eventually revealed that the alternative is to spend the rest of their lives outcast and dying from cumulative radiation poisoning, so most of the tribes people hit the ground with a smile on their faces.
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