History Main / NothingLeftToDoButDie

-->'''Hubie:''' Bert, an average mouse eats 12 pounds of cheese in a lifetime. I figure tonight, we've lived 2,000 years!

** Later in the short, Claude Cat, disturbed by the two mice ''wanting'' to get eaten by him, decides to get pulvarized by a bulldog. The dog attempts to mathematically look at the situation, but comes to the conclusion that "THEY JUST DON'T ADD UP!!!", and decides to purposefully get caught by the dogcatcher.

** In Season 5, we find out that this happened with Maze's mother Lilith. Having existed since the dawn of time, in 1946 she finally had an epiphany that mortality is what makes life worth living. So, she gave up her mortality in order to live like a normal human; the episode after all this is revealed, she's discovered to have died of old age.

* In ''Film/OnlyLoversLeftAlive'', this is Adam's attitude. He's very jaded by the progression of human society. This is directly opposed to his wife's [[WorthLivingFor point of view.]]

* In ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'', after the Nailsmith upgrades your nail to its maximum strength, he feels that there's nothing else left for him to do in life after forging a blade of such perfection, and asks to be cut down by his creation, earning you the achievement "Purity". [[spoiler:If you just walk away without killing him, he finds something else to live for by [[StraightGay hooking up with Nailmaster Sheo]] and taking up painting alongside him, earning you the achievement "Happy Couple" instead]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' combines this with AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence with [[spoiler:Iroh]], who didn't so much die as he did decide he'd done everything he had to do in the real world and retire to the Spirit World.

* [[spoiler: Pierce[=/=]Cain]] on ''Series/Lucifer2016'' has, in his words, seen and done everything there is to do on Earth, and all he wants at this point is for it to end. Unfortunately, he has such an absurdly powerful HealingFactor that nothing he's tried has been enough to kill him - and that includes jumping into a volcano. "That was a rough six months."

* From the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', The Shield is a superhero whose sole power is utter and complete indestructibility. He literally cannot be hurt by anything. What he hasn't told his teammates is that he's actually over 20,000 years old, his immunity to harm includes being immune to ''time'', and that he started superheroics because he desperately hopes he'll eventually find someone who can nullify his indestructibility. His entire career as a superhero is a slow form of [[SuicideByCop Suicide by Supervillain]].

* Phil fails to do this in ''Film/GroundhogDay''. Or, rather, he succeeds multiple times...SugarWiki/FunnyMoments too.

* The reason the BonusBoss of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', [[spoiler:the [[BlackKnight Ebony Warrior]]]], seeks out the [[PlayerCharacter Dovahkiin]] [[DeathSeeker for a fight to the death]]. And given the power needed to attract his attention, let [[HealingFactor alone]] [[MagicKnight defeat]] [[MakeMeWannaShout him]], at this point this could be true for the Dovahkiin as well.
-->I have done all that can be done. There is nothing left. No quests to be undertaken. No villains to be slain. No challenges to face.

* Done by Light Yagami in an AlternateEnding of the manga version of ''Manga/DeathNote''. He's now in his 50s or 60s and has been ruling as Kira for many years...and decides he's bored. So he asks Ryuk to write his name in the book. [[spoiler: In the afterlife, he gets killed many times over, for every name he wrote in the notebook. Light, being who he is, chooses not to take that sitting down, and goes to bargain with the Shinigami King. This may or may not tie into the popular fan theory that Light became a Shinigami after he died.]]

* ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship'' did it with [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/dinosaur-meteors/]].

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

* If successful at the button input at the end of [[WhoWantsToLiveForever Zasalamel's]] story in ''VideoGame/SoulCalibur 3'', he sits down and writes book after book (eventually enough to fill a city library), all based on his past lives. With the last book done and his quill dry, he just sits back and waits for his long-welcomed end.

** Referenced in ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse''. The planet Ursa Minor Beta is so beautiful that when a travel guide announced, "When you are tired of Ursa Minor Beta you are tired of life", the suicide rate there quadrupled overnight.

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-->'''Captain Hook:''' Death is the only adventure we have left...

* In ''Series/TrueBlood'', Godric, a bored 2000-year-old vampire, [[SuicideBySunlight decides to stay in the sun]].
** "Bored" may be 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.

* [[spoiler: Pierce / Cain]] on ''Series/Lucifer2016'' has, in his words, seen and done everything there is to do on Earth, and all he wants at this point is for it to end. Unfortunately, he has such an absurdly powerful HealingFactor that nothing he's tried has been enough to kill him - and that includes jumping into a volcano. "That was a rough six months."

* Many people in retirement homes end up follow this line of thinking. As a culture (in the United States at least), we feel that once you're in a home, it's over. Time to just wait for death. [[YourMindMakesItReal And this attitude causes quick degradation of physical and mental abilities and become a self fulfilling prophecy.]] A lot of Developmental Psych textbooks and experts say that retirement homes need to avert this trope with their residents.

* Subverted in ''Literature/RobotsAndEmpire''. Gladia describes to D.G. 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 among Spacers, she answers "Zero. Suicide is impossible when surrounded by ThreeLawsCompliant robots."

* 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 the 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.
--> "For what could any Entity, conscious of eternal existence, want – but an end?"

* Phil fails to do this in ''Film/GroundhogDay''. Or, rather, he succeeds multiple times...CrowningMomentOfFunny too.

* Not quite suicide, but similar: in the Classic ''[[TabletopGame/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.

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** In ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'' and ''Literature/AndAnotherThing,'' we have Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged. In an accident that has never been successfully repeated, he made himself immortal. In the former volume, he is using his immortality along with time travel to insult every single being in the galaxy. To their faces. One at a time. In alphabetical order. In the latter, he's given up on that and spends the entire book trying to find a way to die. [[spoiler:He eventually finds a reason to live when he falls in love with Trillian, but he still goes through with it. Fortunately, the chosen method doesn't kill him immediately but restores his mortality so he can grow old with her.]]

* Creator/LarryNiven wrote a short story set in the Draco Tavern called "The Schumann Computer" where the title AI shuts itself down because it's solved every possible problem. The builders/investors are then told that this eventually happens to ''every'' AI.