Suicide by Sunlight: Difference between revisions

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.

 

 

 

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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]:'' {{spoiler|Cassidy}} chooses to go out this way in atonement. {{spoiler|Subverted in that he had made a deal with God to come [[Back From the Dead]] as a regular human.}}

* 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."

** 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

* 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.

== [[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.

 

== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==

* 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.

* ''[[Nie R]]'' has a non-vampiric, but still sunlight-vulnerable character. {{spoiler|[[The Heartless|Shade]] Yonah}} does this by purposefully emerging from her human host into a beam of sunlight.

 

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