History Main / NothingLeftToDoButDie

* After [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] poked [[AndThenWhat a MASSIVE hole]] in [[spoiler: Missingno's plan to absorb all of existance]], he followed that up by suggesting [[spoiler: that it kill itself]]. ''And it works.''

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''[[http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-answer/ The Last Answer]]'' (not to be confused with the more widely known ''The Last Question'') deals with a superior entity which turns out to have created universe and everything in it, but isn't in fact any sort of god as imagined by humankind. It has grown to know everything, with the exception of anything concerning its own origin and ending. Thus it collects countless intellects from the universe, and gives them just one thing to do: think. The intellects soon find out that they can do nothing else as they are disembodied, and even suicide is easily reversed by the entity; left with no alternatives, all the intellects eventually resolve to find a way to destroy the entity so they themselves can cease existing. The entity is satisfied, for that is exactly why it has created the intellects in the first place.

* Happened in ''{{Exalted}}''- in the First Age, some Celestial Exalted died because they were just bored and wanted to start over.
* Not quite suicide, but similar: in the Classic ''[[DungeonsAndDragons D&D]]'' game, characters who attain supreme Immortal status, but get bored with playing super-godlings, can forfeit their Immortality to be reborn as a mortal again. Characters who do this once, then work their way up to supreme Immortal status ''again'', AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence and are permanently removed from play.
* In ''{{Scion}}'', there's a character named Niobe. Ever hear the story from GreekMythology about how the gods created a cloud that looked like Hera to test Ixion's intentions? She was that cloud. She's lived for thousands of years, taken hundreds of husbands and borne thousands of children, and she can't die. Even if someone kills her, she comes back a few minutes later. Players can get on her good side by either rejuvenating her will to live or coming up with a way to end her life for good. (A major reason to do so: she ''always'' knows where the Golden Fleece is.)

* One of the possible motivations for [[spoiler: Morpheus's]] probable suicide in ''{{Sandman}}''.

* ''ThePerryBibleFellowship'' did it with [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF055-Dinosaur_Meteors.jpg dinosaurs]].

* Shows up in ''StarTrekVoyager'', where one member of the Q continuum, [[WhoWantsToLiveForever bored from reliving eternity from start to finish]], begs sanctuary on Voyager so as to be able to commit suicide. [[spoiler: Which he eventually manages, with the help of the Q who had originally argued against him.]] A quite literal case of committing suicide after having seen everything. Multiple times. From every possible point of view.

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* After shooting and burying his nemesis [[Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}} Spider-Man]], [[EgomaniacHunter Kraven]] had no further goals and committed suicide.

* In RobertAHeinlein's ''TimeEnoughForLove'', 2,000 year old Lazarus Long thinks he really has seen it all and decides to die. He only agrees to continue living if ''someone'' can find ''something'' he hasn't yet experienced.

* [[HBeamPiper H. Beam Piper]] wrote a story titled "Last Enemy," about a culture that had accepted reincarnation as a scientifically proven fact. As a result, they'd developed a rather ''different'' attitude toward death -- it was, at worst, a (temporary) inconvenience; often enough, it was a social event. "Evidently when the Akor-Neb people get tired of their current reincarnation they invite in their friends, throw a big party, and then do themselves in in an atmosphere of general conviviality."

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* Subverted in ''[[IsaacAsimov Robots and Empire]]''. Gladia describes to a Settler how the long-lived Spacers someday reach a point when life becomes boring, and they feel they have seen it all. However, when he asks her how common suicide is on her planet, the answer is "Zero. We are surrounded by ThreeLawsCompliant robots who cannot allow suicide."

* IsaacAsimov's ''[[http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-answer/ The Last Answer]]'' (not to be confused with the more widely known ''The Last Question'') deals with a superior entity which turns out to have created universe and everything in it, but isn't in fact any sort of god as imagined by humankind. It has grown to know everything, with the exception of anything concerning its own origin and ending. Thus it collects countless intellects from the universe, and gives them just one thing to do: think. The intellects soon find out that they can do nothing else as they are disembodied, and even suicide is easily reversed by the entity; left with no alternatives, all the intellects eventually resolve to find a way to destroy the entity so they themselves can cease existing. The entity is satisfied, for that is exactly why it has created the intellects in the first place.

* A dramatic version of this was the originally explanation for Gideon's disappearance on ''CriminalMinds'' after MandyPatinkin quit. However, Patinkin refused to do that scene and it was changed to an indefinite road trip.
* In the "[[Series/TheTwilightZone Twilight Zone]]" episode Time Enough at Last, Henry Bemis is the only survivor of an H-bomb. Since almost everything is destroyed, there is not much to do. This upsets Bemis and he pounds his hands on his knees and says "If only there was something to do!" He sees a gun and puts it up to his head to shoot himself, but he sees a library and doesn't shoot himself.

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* Common when people have run out of things to do in EVEOnline, and often can be justified as in-character.

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* Matthew Sweet's song "Someone to Pull the Trigger" (the title an example of ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin}, which includes the line, "Everything I'll ever be, I've been."
* Implied in "Try Not To Breathe" by {{REM}}.

* Some tabletop RPG players, not realizing that it's possible to simply ''retire'' a player character if they've gotten bored with it, have had their [=PCs=] commit suicide so they can roll up a new one.

* Apparently the result of drinking "the perfect drink" as brewed by [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP-294]].
--> ''Subject later committed suicide, leaving a note which read "I'm sorry, but at this point everything's just one big letdown." Requesting such a drink again is highly discouraged.''
* {{Raocow}}, during his LetsPlay of ''Vip 5'' (a ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' hack). [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imJIn6CD_W8&t=12m31s Upon seeing the overworld map for the first time,]] he scrolls around the whole screen to look at everything, then he stops talking so he can hum along with the background music. Then:
-->'''Raocow:''' Well, now I've got an argument that life isn't worth living anymore, because I doubt I'll ever experience anything better ever in my life. So, um, this is the last video ever I'll ever make as I'm going to end my life shortly. See y'all in the afterlife.

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* ChuckJones' ''Cheese Chasers'' uses this and SeenItAllSuicide. Two mice discover that they have eaten every type of cheese there is and decide to commit suicide by cat. Their efforts cause the cat to go mad and try to commit its own suicide by letting a bulldog "massacre" him, driving the dog mad as well.
** In another Jones cartoon, "TheScarletPumpernickel", DaffyDuck's script ends with this: "There was nothing left for the Scarlet Pumpernickel to do but blow his brains out, which he does." And so does Daffy. Being ''LooneyTunes'', however, he recovered. "It's getting so you have to ''kill'' yourself to sell a story around here."
* ''JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths'': Owlman becomes an OmnicidalManiac through an extreme version of this trope.
-->'''Owlman:''' It doesn't matter.
* ''{{Futurama}}'' does a version of this in "The Late Phillip J. Fry". After witnessing Earth become nothing more than a charred, dead planet and there being no way to get home, Fry suggests to Farnsworth and Bender that they might as well watch the universe end, and with nothing else to do, they agree.

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* Actor George Sanders committed suicide and left a note behind saying he'd done it because he was bored.
** Same with HunterSThompson, though he also claimed to have done it because he had been alive for seventeen more years than he actually wanted to be. His family states it was a well-thought out act resulting from Thompson's many painful and chronic medical conditions.
** Also George Eastman, the creator of Kodak left a note saying "To my Friends, My work is done. Why wait?"
** This also appears to be the reason for ErnestHemingway's suicide, as well.
* An old Italian saying: "Vedi Napoli e poi mori" (See Naples and die) plays with this trope. It can mean that after seeing beautiful Naples, you can die happily. Joke is, it can also mean "See Naples and then Mori" (Mori is a town in northern Italy).
** Naples is also an Italian euphemism for Hell. So it can also be interpreted as something along the lines of "See Hell and die." (Va fa napoli, or something very close, is essentially the Italian bowdlerised version of Go to Hell.)
* The possibility of this was invoked by Dr Johnson when he stated, "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." (Parodied in the DouglasAdams example in the Literature section.)
* Certain real-world religions allow suicide in this situation, usually by self-starvation and often only for those considered particularly spiritually advanced, including [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayopavesa Hinduism]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santhara Jainism]], and in the past [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu Japanese Buddhism]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism#Consolamentum Catharism]].
* Greek philospher [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democritus Democritus]], father of atomism, allegedly decided to starve to death once he had reached the age of 100, stating that he has lived enough and wanted to die with dignity.

* This is [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Maiza's]] reasoning for approaching Firo and [[ICannotSelfTerminate asking the kid to kill him]] (more specifically, he's both SeenItAll and finally received closure over his [[DeadLittleSister Dead Little Brother]]) at the end of the first arc of ''{{Baccano}}!''. Firo's response is to nod, smile...and then give a number of entirely bullshit reasons for why he [[TwoThousandOne can't do that, Dave]], before admitting that he really just doesn't want to lose his mentor.

* After [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] poked [[AndThenWhat a MASSIVE hole]] in [[spoiler: Missingno's plan to absorb all of existance]], he followed that up by suggesting [[spoiler: that it kill itself]]. ''And it works.''

* An old Italian saying: "Vedi Napoli e poi mori" (See Naples and die) plays with this trope. It can mean that after seeing beautiful Naples, you can die happily. Joke is, it can also mean "See Naples and then Mori" (Mori is Naples' neighbouring town).

** In another Jones cartoon, "TheScarletPumpernickel", DaffyDuck's script ends with this: "There was nothing left for the Scarlet Pumpernickel to do but blow his brains out, which he does." And so does Daffy. Being ''LooneyTunes'', however, [[IGotBetter he got better]]. "It's getting so you have to ''kill'' yourself to sell a story around here."

* Apparently the result of drinking "the perfect drink" as brewed by [[WebOriginal/SCPFoundation SCP-294]].

* Certain real-world religions allow suicide in this situation, usually by self-starvation and often only for those considered particularly spiritually advanced, including [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayopavesa Hinduism]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santhara Jainism]], and in the past [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu Japanese Buddhism]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism#Consolamentum Catharism]].

* ''{{Strata}}'' by TerryPratchett has really good life-extension treatment that effectively leads to immortality. People still tend to die after three hundred years or so, though. Generally it's not ''technically'' suicide, it's just that they get bored enough that only increasingly risky stunts hold any interest for them, and eventually the risk doesn't pan out.

** "Bored" maybe the wrong word. Godric has seen human death and suffering in all variations, and his attempts to end vampire-human conflict goes poorly. He may just be tired of the futile cycles vampires and humans go through.

* In the "Twilight Zone" episode Time Enough at Last, Henry Bemis is the only survivor of an H-bomb. Since almost everything is destroyed, there is not much to do. This upsets Bemis and he pounds his hands on his knees and says "If only there was something to do!" He sees a gun and puts it up to his head to shoot himself, but he sees a library and doesn't shoot himself.

* Apparently the result of drinking "the perfect drink" as brewed by [[SCPFoundation SCP-294]].

* In ''{{Hook}}'', Captain Hook remarks, "There is no adventure here," and puts a flintlock to his head, but Smee stops him from killing himself.

** He's also nearing his [[NumberOfTheBeast 666'th]] birthday.

* {{Forever Knight}} had a case of this, with a vampire woman who decided to stay in the sun.
** Then there's Nick, of course, in the ending.

* Cole on {{Charmed}}.
--->'''Cole''': "Can't you let me not die in peace?"