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{{trope}}
{{quote|''All at once I've had enough;
''As if I'm made of sterner stuff
''I take a breath and open up the door
''Dawn breaks hard and falls on me
''For just one moment I can see
''The pale blue sky, I close my eyes because
''The world's so bright and beautiful I have to look away
''Braced against the beauty of another perfect day
''[[No Body Left Behind|As I go to pieces]] and the [[Dramatic Wind|breeze blows me away]]
''One more blue sunny day.
|''[[Jonathan Coulton]]''|'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}K_1uK67mQm0 Blue Sunny Day]'''}}
Vampires who want to commit suicide tend to do it by waiting for the dawn or walking into sunlight.
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There are a lot of reasons for a vampire to get fed up with their undead condition: [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]], [[What Have I Become?]], [[Horror Hunger]] and [[Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere]] just to name a few. However should they choose to commit suicide and [[Undeath Always Ends|end their undeath]] they won't have it easy; being a vampire means they're immune to most methods of suicide except for those that involve extreme force. Sure, [[Our Vampires Are Different]] means they vary in toughness and weaknesses, but they're immune to things like poisons, exsanguination just sends them into a feeding frenzy and hanging or drowning do nothing (no breathing). Even stepping into traffic may not do the job, leaving them a painful heap of broken but still unliving bones. This leaves only things like decapitation, which is impractical since not everyone has a personal guillotine, and self-immolation, which is easy to chicken out of.
For these reasons '''[[Title Drop|Suicide
Naturally, this trope only applies in settings where [[Our Vampires Are Different]] and has [[Weakened by the Light|sunlight]] as a [[Kryptonite Factor|deadly weakness.]]
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* On ''[[Blood
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]:'' Cassidy chooses to go out this way in atonement. Subverted in that he had made a deal with God to come [[Back from the Dead]] as a regular human.
* At the end of ''[[30 Days of Night]]'', Josh Hartnett's character purposefully lets himself be bitten so that he'll become a vampire; he uses his newly acquired super strength to kill the big bad. Afterwards, knowing that he'll eventually feel the urge to kill/drain his loved ones and probably turn evil, he commits suicide via sunlight.
* In ''[[X-Men]] Annual'' #6, Rachel Van Helsing has been turned into a vampire by [[Dracula]]. She asks [[Wolverine]] to kill her. He hugs her and stabs her with a stake. Before she dies, she sees one last sunrise which turns her to ash.
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** In ''The Vampire Lestat'', the "Mother" and "Father" of all vampires went out in the sun; it's not clear in-text whether this was a suicide attempt, a ''murder'' attempt, or if they knew they'd be fine. Anyway, it did not harm ''them'' because they were so powerful, but ''all the other vampires'' suffered serious burns (at best), even halfway around the globe in the middle of the night.
* In ''[[The Twilight Saga]]'' book 2 ''[[New Moon]]'', Edward plans this, bit of a subversion as that wouldn't have been what killed him but instead it would have been the other vampires to keep him from revealing the secret of vampires to the general populace
* Played with in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
* Possible twist at the end of ''[[The Parasol Protectorate|Soulless]]''. Lord Akeldama (a very old vampire) and Alexia watch the sunset the day before Alexia's wedding. However, since Alexia is a walking supernatural suppression field, Lord Akeldama was effectively a human again and was unharmed by the sun.
* In ''[[Fevre Dream]]'', Joshua York tries this after his [[Horror Hunger]] gets the better of him. He chains himself up outside, throws the key out of reach, and waits for the sun to come up. It's an excruciating process that takes several hours. He changes his mind halfway through, [[Life or Limb Decision|severing one of his hands to get away in time]]. Despite being very badly burned, he recovers over the course of a week, and even regrows his hand, much to his surprise.
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* The music video of ''[[Hammerfall]]'s'' "Always will be" end's like this.
== [[Tabletop
* In ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'', Isabela von Carnstein did this after Grand Theogonist managed to destroy her husband in a mutual kill.
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