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*** Klingons were known to engage in ritual suicide if disability forced them to be a burden on their families. When Worf was badly injured in an accident, he asked Commander Riker to serve the role. Riker heatedly refuses, [[WhatTheHellHero castigates Worf for choosing not to fight to survive like so many of their comrades did]], and points out that Worf's son Alexander is old enough to perform the ritual instead. Specifically, Klingons can't kill themselves under such conditions as it's dishonorable, so asking a family member to do it is a way around this. In a ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' episode Worf's brother Kurn asked him to perform this duty after his family had been stripped of their titles and honor by Chancellor Gowron. When Worf doesn't go through with it, and various efforts by Kurn to [[SuicideByCop die in the line of duty]] fail, Worf comes across his brother drunk with a disrupter in his hand, trying to work up the courage to shoot himself in the head, which would mean eternity in Klingon hell, "but at least I would be with other Klingons."

*** Suicide as a result of Psychological Interferrence was the subject of "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E19EyeOfTheBeholder Eye Of The Beholder]]", where empathic impressions from a past suicide caused several empathic individuals in the ''Enterprise'' crew to experience hallucinations forcing them to attempt the same thing (some of them succeeded, others didn't).

*** In the episode [[Recap/StarTrekS1E29OperationAnnihilate "Operation: Annihilate!"]], an unarmed Denevan pilot, driven mad by pain caused by the parasite he's infected by, flies his ship into the sun.

** "Your Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire" [[StartsWithASuicide opens with]] a gay employee killing himself by walking into traffic as he's about to be outed and ruined. It's also mentioned there's at least one suicide each week among fired government employees due to this.

** "Your Nuts Roasting On An Open Fire" [[StartsWithASuicide opens with]] a gay employee killing himself by walking into traffic as he's about to be outed and ruined. It's also mentioned there's a suicide at least every week among fired employees given this.

** "Your Nuts Roasting On An Open Fire" [[StartsWithASuicide opens with]] a gay employee killing himself by walking into traffic as he's about to be outed and ruined.

* ''Series/FellowTravelers'': Senator Smith shoots himself rather than resign when he's told his son's arrest on a "morals charge" for having sex with a man will be exposed if he won't, while leaving a suicide note that denounces [=McCarthyism=].

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E102TheChangingOfTheGuard The Changing of the Guard]]", after being forced to retire by the board of the Rock Spring School for Boys, Professor Ellis Fowler becomes convinced that he has accomplished nothing in his life and plans to shoot himself. However, the ghosts of seven of his former students intervene and assure him that his teachings made a real difference in their lives.
** The fate of Chief Bell in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E104TheThirtyFathomGrave The Thirty-Fathom Grave]]". Seeing ghosts of his dead crewmates from a sunken submarine which he served on in World War II and experiencing massive SurvivorGuilt, Bell flings himself off the side of the ship and drowns.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E118OnThursdayWeLeaveForHome On Thursday We Leave for Home]]", nine people have committed suicide in the last six months in order to escape the hellish conditions of V9-Gamma.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E131AShortDrinkFromACertainFountain A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain]]", Harmon Gordon has reached the point where he is contemplating suicide as he is madly in love with his much younger wife Flora but she can't stand to be around him. He tells his brother Raymond that he will jump off the balcony if he does not inject him with the experimental youth serum.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E137Number12LooksJustLikeYou Number 12 Looks Just Like You]]", Marilyn Cuberle's father Jack committed suicide five years earlier as he believed that the Transformation had robbed him of his identity.

** In "Devil's Alphabet", Deaver commits suicide by shooting himself after losing everything that he owns in a card game in October 1896. On November 2, his ghost attends the meeting of the Devil's Alphabet Society with the six surviving members because of [[DutyThatTranscendsDeath a bargain that they made at their last meeting before graduation in 1876]]. One year later, Andrew hangs himself from a high ceiling but [[PsychicAssistedSuicide it is unclear how he did so as no chair was found near his body]]. That night, Andrew's ghost appears to Grant at the meeting and Grant likewise hangs himself. On November 2, 1898, Cornelius and Frederick are the last two surviving members of the society as Brian and Eli were killed the previous year. Unable to face what awaits him at that night's meeting, Cornelius shoots himself.
** In "Time and Teresa Golowitz", the Prince of Darkness tells Bluestone that the title character committed suicide by throwing herself in front of a bus after leaving Mary Ellen Cosgrove's party in October 1948. She was depressed because no one at the party even talked to her, a regular occurrence because of her unpopularity. At the Prince's urging, Bluestone [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong manages to convince Teresa]] that she can get people to notice her through her excellent singing voice and promises to work with her in order to perfect it. This changes history so that Teresa becoming a famous singer with six $1,000,000 albums by 1987. She collaborated with Bluestone on at least one of them.
** In "Memories", the law in the AlternateUniverse allows people to commit suicide if they are not happy in their current lives. Some kill themselves because they can't handle the [[PastLifeMemories memories of the terrible pain and grief that they suffered in their past lives]]. Others do so in the hope that their next life will be better.
** In "The Call", the struggling artist Mary Ann Lindeby committed suicide because of her overwhelming depression and loneliness. After her death, her spirit [[HauntedFetter inhabits her last piece]], a bronze sculpture of herself, in the Civic Art Gallery. She becomes concerned that Norman Blane may be planning to kill himself too as he feels just as hopeless as she did towards the end of her life.
** In "Rendezvous in a Dark Place", Barbara [=LeMay=] tells [[TheGrimReaper Death]] that she considered overdosing on pills so that he would take her with him but that it seemed too forward.
** In "Love is Blind", the man who killed his wife and [[BlindMusician blinded the musician]] by shooting them hanged himself in jail one week later.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone2019'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone2019 Ovation]]" Fiji is so overwhelmed with fame and doesn’t want to live anymore that she gave the medallion to Jasmine and stepped out to be hit by a bus.

** The tear-jerking final act of Season 4's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS4E13Flashpoint Flashpoint]]", where Walker and Trivette [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles protect Irish militant-turned-peacemaker Adam McGuire backing a peace treaty from assassination by IRA Terrorists]]. After its leader, Gavin Malloy, is killed by the Rangers and [=McGuire=], his son, Derek and his (Derek's) lover, Tracy O'Neill, decide that rather than give themselves up, they kill themselves, [[DestinationDefenestration doing so by]] [[SuperWindowJump jumping out the window]] of the tall office building they've holed themselves up in. A rare example of a SympatheticMurderer on this show. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50BMU5NnuB4 This song pretty much explains it all.]]

** The tear-jerking final act of Season 4's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS4E13Flashpoint Flashpoint]]", where Walker and Trivette [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles protect Irish militant-turned-peacemaker Adam McGuire backing a peace treaty from assassination by IRA Terrorists]]. After its leader, Gavin Malloy, is killed by the Rangers and [=McGuire=], his son, Derek and his (Derek's) lover, Tracy O'Neill, decide that rather than give themselves up, they kill themselves, [[DestinationDefenestration doing so by]] [[SuperWindowJump jumping out the window]] of the tall office building they've holed themselves up in. A rare example of a SympatheticMurderer on this show.

** Takeshi Asakura /Kamen Rider Ouja from ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'' is a violent sadistic criminal, whose biggest rival is Shuichi Kitaoka, the lawyer who was asigned to his case, but refused to defend him, causing Asakura to receive a harsh prison sentence. Said lawyer also joined the Rider Battle as Kamen Rider Zolda. In the final episode, Asakura thinks he has his deciding battle against Kitaoka, only to discover the Zolda suit was donned by Kitaoka's butler. Being denied his desired victory, he angrily runs into a squad of armed policemen and pulls a SuicideByCop.

** While having been successful in saving a homeless man from suicide in "Lucky", Walker was far from successful in Season 8's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS8E10RiseToTheOccasion Rise to the Occasion]]". The start of the episode had 12-year-old middle school student Henry Monroe doing this by jumping from the roof of the school after being bullied just one too many times due to his poverty-stricken life. Walker attempts to talk Henry down, but fails miserably, and finds it hard to forget the sheer look of hopelessness he had before he ended his life that [[ManlyTears it made even]] ''[[ManlyTears him]]'' [[ManlyTears cry]]. Walker later decided to turn his sorrow into action in trying to have the school improve its image.

** In Season 5's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS5E4TheBrotherhood The Brotherhood]]", Walker and Trivette take on a trio of police officers [[VigilanteExecution who resolved to]] [[KillerCop kill criminals]] who managed to get themselves [[OffOnATechnicality off on technicalities]], upon which Walker warns them one of these days, their malicious and extremist actions would result in an innocent person being killed, and that victim is the son of one of his close friends, a Marine Corps recruit who had recently been exonerated of a rape charge, but the officers didn't check, at which point Walker plans to have arrest warrants issued for them, but they weren't willing to go down without a fight. After one officer is [[BulletproofHumanShield killed by one of his fellow officers by accident while attempting to snipe Walker]], [[spoiler:he retreats to police headquarters to kill himself.]]

** Near the end of "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E2DeadlySituation Deadly Situation]]" in Season 9, [[spoiler:Lieutenant Shell, a leading detective of the Sage City, Texas, Police Department, turns out to be the mastermind behind a group of [[DirtyCop dirty detectives]] who participated in a drug ring and framed rookie officer Glenn Cooper (who is a descendant of the legendary Ranger Hayes Cooper and therefore, a distant cousin of Walker's and an aspiring Ranger himself) and his partner (whom he has killed) for stealing evidence from a recent bust after his three accomplices were busted by Glenn two nights prior, to which they set him up to silence him after [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Glenn gave Shell the original copies of the evidence]], only for them to eventually be arrested by Gage and Sydney before they got the chance to [[DestroyTheEvidence steal and destroy the extra photos]] Glenn hid at a library. While Trivette, Gage and Sydney arrest the drug dealer behind the operation, Lieutenant Shell knows he's been caught and goes home, but when his boss, Captain Ryder, and Walker corner him there so they can arrest him, they find he hung himself.]]

** In Season 5's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS5E4TheBrotherhood The Brotherhood]]", Walker and Trivette take on a trio of police officers [[VigilanteExecution who resolved to]] [[KillerCop kill criminals]] who managed to get themselves OffOnATechnicality, but Walker warned them one of these days, their malicious and extremist actions would result in an innocent person being killed, and that victim is the son of one of his close friends who had recently been exonerated of a rape charge, but the officers didn't check, to which Walker plans to have arrest warrants issued for them, but they weren't willing to go down without a fight. [[BulletproofHumanShield After one officer is killed by one of his fellow officers by accident while attempting to snipe Walker]], [[spoiler:he retreats to police headquarters to kill himself.]]

** Near the end of "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E2DeadlySituation Deadly Situation]]" in Season 9, [[spoiler:Lieutenant Shell, a leading detective of the Sage City, Texas, Police Department, turns out to be the mastermind behind a group of [[DirtyCop dirty detectives]] who participated in a drug ring and framed a rookie officer (who is a descendant of the legendary Ranger Hayes Cooper and therefore, a distant cousin of Walker's and an aspiring Ranger himself) and his partner (whom he has killed) for stealing evidence from a recent bust after his three accomplices were busted by that officer two nights prior, to which they set him up to silence him, only for them to eventually be arrested by Gage and Sydney. While Trivette, Gage and Sydney arrest the drug dealer behind the operation, Lieutenant Shell knows he's been caught and goes home, but when his boss, Captain Ryder, and Walker corner him there so they can arrest him, they find he hung himself.]]

** The tear-jerking final act of Season 4's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS4E13Flashpoint Flashpoint]]", where Walker and Trivette [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles protect Irish militant-turned-peacemaker Adam McGuire backing a peace treaty from assassination by IRA Terrorists]]. After its leader, Gavin Malloy, is killed by the Rangers and [=McGuire=], his son, Derek and his (Derek's) lover, Tracy O'Neill, decide that rather than give themselves up, they kill themselves, [[DestinationDefenestration doing so by jumping out the window]] of the tall office building they've holed themselves up in. A rare example of a SympatheticMurderer on this show.

** Near the end of "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E2DeadlySituation Deadly Situation]]" in Season 9, [[spoiler:Lieutenant Shell, a leading detective of the Sage City, Texas, Police Department, turns out to be the mastermind behind a group of [[DirtyCop dirty detectives]] who participated in a drug ring and framed a rookie officer (who is a descendant of the legendary Ranger Hayes Cooper and therefore, a distant cousin of Walker's and an aspiring Ranger himself) and his partner (whom he has killed) for stealing evidence from a recent bust after his three accomplices were arrested by Gage and Sydney. While Trivette, Gage and Sydney arrest the drug dealer behind the operation, Lieutenant Shell knows he's been caught and goes home, but when his boss, Captain Ryder, and Walker corner him there so they can arrest him, they find he hung himself.]]

** Near the end of "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E2DeadlySituation Deadly Situation]]" in Season 9, [[spoiler:Lieutenant Shell, a leading detective of the Sage City, Texas, Police Department, turns out to be the mastermind behind a group of [[DirtyCop dirty detectives]] who framed a rookie officer (who is a descendant of the legendary Ranger Hayes Cooper and therefore, a distant cousin of Walker's and an aspiring Ranger himself) and his partner (whom he has killed) for stealing evidence from a recent drug bust after the three detectives involved in the operation were arrested by Gage and Sydney. While Trivette, Gage and Sydney arrest the drug dealer behind the operation, Lieutenant Shell knows he's been caught and goes home, but when his boss, Captain Ryder, and Walker corner him there so they can arrest him, they find he hung himself.]]

** Near the end of "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E2DeadlySituation Deadly Situation]]" in Season 9, [[spoiler:Lieutenant Shell, a leading detective of the Sage City, Texas, Police Department, turns out to be the mastermind behind a group of [[DirtyCop dirty detectives]] who framed a rookie officer (who is a distant cousin of Walker's and an aspiring Texas Ranger) and his partner (whom he has killed) for stealing evidence from a recent drug bust after the three detectives involved in the operation were arrested by Gage and Sydney. While Trivette, Gage and Sydney arrest the drug dealer behind the operation, Lieutenant Shell knows he's been caught and goes home, but when his boss, Captain Ryder, and Walker corner him there so they can arrest him, they find he hung himself.]]

** While having been successful in saving a homeless man from suicide in "Lucky", Walker was far from successful in Season 8's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS8E10RiseToTheOccasion Rise to the Occasion]]". The start of the episode had 12-year-old middle school student Henry Monroe doing this after being bullied just one too many times due to his poverty-stricken life. Walker attempts to talk Henry down, but fails miserably, and finds it hard to forget the sheer look of hopelessness he had before he ended his life that [[ManlyTears it made even]] ''[[ManlyTears him]]'' [[ManlyTears cry]]. Walker later decided to turn his sorrow into action in trying to have the school improve its image.

** Near the end of "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E2DeadlySituation Deadly Situation]]" in Season 9, [[spoiler:Lieutenant Shell, a leading detective of the Sage City, Texas, Police Department, turns out to be the mastermind behind a group of [[DirtyCop dirty detectives]] who framed a rookie officer (who is a distant cousin of Walker's and an aspiring Texas Ranger) and his partner (whom he has killed) for stealing evidence from a recent drug bust after the three detectives the rookie officer busted were arrested by Gage and Sydney. While Trivette, Gage and Sydney arrest the drug dealer behind the operation, Lieutenant Shell knows he's been caught and goes home, but when his boss, Captain Ryder, and Walker corner him there so they can arrest him, they find he hung himself.]]

** Near the end of "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E2DeadlySituation Deadly Situation]]" in Season 9, [[spoiler:Lieutenant Shell,]] a leading detective of the Sage City, Texas, Police Department, turns out to be the mastermind behind a group of [[DirtyCop dirty detectives]] who framed a rookie officer, who is a distant cousin of Walker's and an aspiring Texas Ranger, for stealing evidence from a recent drug bust after the three detectives the rookie officer busted were arrested by Gage and Sydney. While Trivette, Gage and Sydney arrest the drug dealer behind the operation, [[spoiler:Lieutenant Shell]] knows he's been caught and goes home, but when Walker and Captain Ryder corner him there so they can arrest him, they find he hung himself.

** The tear-jerking final act of Season 4's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS4E13Flashpoint Flashpoint]]", where Walker and Trivette [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles protect Irish militant-turned-peacemaker Adam McGuire backing a peace treaty from assassination by IRA Terrorists]]. After its leader, Gavin Malloy, is killed by the Rangers, they and [=McGuire=] tell Derek and Tracy that Gavin has been killed, at which point rather than give themselves up, Derek and Tracy decide they kill themselves, [[DestinationDefenestration doing so jumping out the window]]. A rare example of a SympatheticMurderer on this show.

* This has occurred several times in ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger''. Some cases involve an innocent person unable to deal with the stresses of life, at which point the eponymous law enforcement officer tries to [[TalkingDownTheSuicidal talk them down before they make that decision]], and others involve a villain deciding it's [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled better for them to die than be either killed or arrested]].

** While having been successful in saving a homeless man from suicide in "Lucky", Walker was far from successful in Season 8's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS8E10RiseToTheOccasion Rise to the Occasion]]". The start of the episode had 12-year-old middle school student Henry Monroe doing this after being bullied just one too many times due to his poverty-stricken life. Walker attempts to talk him down but fails miserably. Walker finds it hard to forget the sheer look of hopelessness Henry had before he ended his life that [[ManlyTears it made even]] ''[[ManlyTears him]]'' [[ManlyTears cry]]. Walker later decided to turn his sorrow into action in trying to have the school improve its image.