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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.
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.]]
Contrast [[Kryptonite-Proof Suit]]. See also [[Undeath Always Ends]] and [[Weakened by the Light]]. Not to be confused with [[Disappears Into Light]], which is about characters who dissolves into light after dying.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* On ''[[Blood
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]:''
* At the end of ''[[30
* 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.
* A ''[[Hellblazer]]'' two-parter had the King of the Vampires palling around London with some of his undead, murderous buddies, and breaking away from the group to harrow a drunk and desperate John. When John gets a second wind and drags the King out into the sunlight, one of his buddies feels the King's death, leading another to say he's going for a walk. "And I may be some time."
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Blade]] 2''. After she's infected by the Reaper virus, Nyssa Damaskinos asks Blade to carry her out in the open just before dawn so she can see the sunlight and die while she's still a vampire. When the sun comes up she disintegrates in his arms.
* The very opening of ''[[Daybreakers]]'' has a [[Undead Child|preteen vampire girl]] commit suicide this way because she was not able to grow up.
* In ''[[Let the Right One In]]'', one of Eli's victims does this to herself.
* In ''[[Thirst]]'',
* In ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]'' there's the [[Last of His Kind|Furyan]] Necromonger "The Purifier". Not really a vampire (but possibly could be considered "undead" due to his religion): he commits suicide by walking out into the sunlight of Crematoria. Of course, Crematoria is basically Mercury, so anyone caught in the open would burn like a vampire. Much in line with the rest of this trope, he walked into the sun after explaining to Riddick that he was tired of the brainwashing the Necromongers used to force him to serve them, and trusted Riddick (a fellow Furyan) to avenge their people.
== [[Literature]] ==
* A vampire does this in book two of the ''[[The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries]]''.
* In "Passionato" by Sharon Lee, an artist accepts an invitation to become a vampire because being immortal will give her more time to master her art, and then learns too late that this form of immortality includes [[Creative Sterility]].
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** Relatedly, there's a pair of [[White Wolf]] vampire short stories having to do with artists. One kills himself before he can be made into a vampire, in order to avoid [[Creative Sterility]] and/or having to give up the sun. One who is already a vampire then becomes obsessed with sunlight and starts staying up late every dawn to try and watch it rise, only barely managing to drag herself away with growing burns each time. The implication is that eventually it will become this trope.
* In ''[[The Vampire Chronicles]]'', Lestat tries at one point, but at that point he's actually too powerful to die and just develops a permanent tan. Louis tries it too, but again is so powerful that his friends get the chance to save him before it can outright kill him.
** 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.
== [[Live
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Angel tries to do this, but a miraculous snow shower clouds the sky so the sun doesn't show.
* On ''[[Forever Knight]]'', the female vampire that turned Vachon and his enemy the Inca into vampires committed suicide by sunlight soon afterward.
** Nick Knight attempted suicide this way once, only to pull back as he started to burn.
** A Vietnamese vampire who
* ''[[True Blood]]'' has
** In the fourth season, a witch tries to make every vampire in Bon Temps do this. She succeeds with a few nameless extras, but most strapped themselves down and rendered themselves immobile to avoid this fate.
* ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'': Stefan attempts this in the first season, but is persuaded not to do it by Elena.
** Towards the end of the second season, Elena's biological mother Isobel is mind controlled into killing herself this way in front of Elena.
== [[Music]] ==
* "Blue Sunny Day" by [[Jonathan Coulton]] is all about this. Every night, the narrator stands outside as long as he can, and at the end of the song he finally manages to stay outside until dawn.
* The music video of ''[[Hammerfall]]'s'' "Always will be" end's like this.
== [[Tabletop
* In ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'', Isabela von Carnstein did this
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Black Luther from ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Redemption]]'' ties himself to a cross and asks the [[Player Character]] to open the church's windows so the sun's rays can burn him to dust.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Castlevania (Nintendo 64)]]'', Rosa tries this in her second appearance before Reinhardt stops her. This causes [[Fridge Horror]] when you consider that you only see her once as Carrie.
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