History Main / SeenItAllSuicide

* ''Series/TheGoodPlace'': Part of the CelestialBureaucracy that runs the afterlife is The Accounting Office where all of humanities acts are judged and assigned a value to determine whether they get you into the Good or Bad Places. One accountant called Matt is in charge of evaluating "[[ComicSutra Weird Sex Things]]" and being exposed to so much depravity has clearly taken its toll on him.

** Creator/ChuckJones' ''WesternAnimation/CheeseChasers'' uses an extended version of this trope and NothingLeftToDoButDie. Hubie and Bertie discover that they have eaten enough cheese to make themselves sick of the stuff, and decide to commit suicide by cat. Their efforts cause the cat to go mad and try to commit suicide himself by letting a bulldog "massacre" him, driving the dog mad as well.

** Creator/ChuckJones' "Cheese Chasers" uses an extended version of this trope and NothingLeftToDoButDie. Hubie and Bertie discover that they have eaten enough cheese to make themselves sick of the stuff, and decide to commit suicide by cat. Their efforts cause the cat to go mad and try to commit suicide himself by letting a bulldog "massacre" him, driving the dog mad as well.

On its way to becoming a ForgottenTrope, a Seen It All Suicide occurs when a cartoon character, having seen some outrageous sight, proclaims "Now I've seen everything!" and promptly [[{{Hammerspace}} produces a pistol]] before shooting himself on the spot. The reason this might happen is because the character feels they have finally cracked and wish to end their lives before it gets worse. When these old cartoons are reaired nowadays, however, this joke is usually {{Bowdlerise}}d out. Watch for it -- if a character proclaims that he's seen it all, expect him not to show up again.

* Actor George Sanders committed suicide and left a note behind saying he'd done it because he was bored.

In RealLife, people sometimes say things like, [[SmiteMeOMightySmiter "I'm ready, Jesus,"]] if something momentous has just happened -- meant to indicate that they're ready to die, but without the rather jarring effect of pulling a weapon out of thin air and actually doing the job.

* Invoked at the end of ''Literature/ShardsOfHonor''. Emperor Ezar Vorbarra, expecting to be dead within the week, engages in a bit of GallowsHumor with Lord Aral Vorkosigan, who has just suggested the Minister of the Interior as a possible Regent for soon-to-be-Emperor Gregor: "So you do have something good to say for my Ministers after all. I may die now; I've heard everything." He doesn't die immediately, but after he's recruited Aral as Regent, he falls back in exhaustion, implying he's not long for the world. (In the sequel, ''Literature/{{Barrayar}}'', Ezar hangs on just long enough to see Aral confirmed as Regent, after which he finally succumbs to his long illness.)

* In ''Literature/WizardAndGlass'', a saloon singer, while witnessing an epic MexicanStandoff, declares, [[UnusualEuphemism "You can take me to the path at the end of the clearing, cuz now I've seen it all."]] She doesn't kill herself, but she does remain standing on a stool in the middle of a bar that's probably about to see a gunfight, claiming that getting shot at this point would be totally WorthIt.

* Happened in a couple of different ways in ''Series/TheGoldenGirls.'' Once during one of Rose's infamously irritating St. Olaf stories, Sophia simply looks up and says "Check, please." In a second-hand example, when Dorothy is helping Sophia deliver Meals on Wheels, after dealing with a particularly frustrating person on the route, Dorothy walks outside, looks to the heavens and says, "She's ready, God."

* Music/MatthewSweet'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 [[Music/AutomaticForThePeople "Try Not To Breathe"]] by Music/{{REM}}: the verses, when taken at face value, describe the narrator attempting to suffocate themselves, while the backing vocals repeat the line "I have seen things you will never see."

--> ''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.''

* LetsPlay/{{raocow}}, during his LetsPlay of ''Vip 5'' (a ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' hack). [[https://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, ''VideoGame/TreasureOfTheRudra''[='s=] "Crime of the Heart." Then:

** The trope image is from Clampett's "WesternAnimation/AnItchInTime." When Elmer's cat sees both his owner and the dog getting carried off on a plate by A. Flea, he quips "Now I've seen everything!" and shoots himself in the head with a pistol.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' has something very similar to this. One episode deals with the group learning to be stand-up comedians from a strange old sea captain. After they put on a good performance, he says "Well, can't teach them no more," pulls out a gun, and blows his brains out. [[AnimationAgeGhetto Despite being an animated series]], this is decidedly ''not'' cartoonish.

* 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 was invoked by Dr Johnson when he stated, "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." (Parodied with the Creator/DouglasAdams quote under Literature.)

-->-- '''[[WebOriginal/DoubleToasted Martin Thomas and Korey Koleman]]''' in response to Advertising/TheBurgerKing being a part of Floyd Mayweather's entourage, ''[[https://youtu.be/UlGjiCMXLpE?t=192 JAMIE FOXX AND THE NATIONAL ANTHEM]]''

* Music/MatthewSweet'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."

* ''Music/KrisKristofferson'' song "Kiss the World Good-bye".

* A dramatic version of this was the original explanation for Gideon's disappearance on ''Series/CriminalMinds'' after Creator/MandyPatinkin quit. However, Patinkin refused to do that scene and it was changed to an indefinite road trip [[spoiler:that ended [[BusCrash with him getting murdered]] several seasons later]].
* In ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' 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. Of course, this being the Twilight Zone, he was better off with the first option. [[spoiler: He had all the time in the world, but not his glasses.]]

** In Clampett's adaptation of "WesternAnimation/HortonHatchesTheEgg", a fish (a caricature of Peter Lorre) does this after seeing Horton, sitting on a nest in his tree, going by on the deck of a freighter.

-->-- '''[[WebOriginal/DoubleToasted Martin Thomas]]''' in response to Advertising/TheBurgerKing being a part of Floyd Mayweather's entourage, ''[[https://youtu.be/UlGjiCMXLpE?t=192 JAMIE FOXX AND THE NATIONAL ANTHEM]]''

* ''LetsPlay/AfterlifeSMP'': After [[spoiler:regaining her status as the Hero of the Village and ensuring her Villagers' safety]], building a memorial for her lives, and touring her builds [[spoiler:in flight]], [[spoiler:Half-Dragon Gem]] launches herself into a wheat field to die from fall damage with nothing left to do with her tenth and final life.

See also: CheckPlease, NoMoreForMe. Contrast NothingLeftToDoButDie.

* In ''VideoGame/Arknights'', this is how [[spoiler:The Damazti Cluster, leader of the eponymous Sarkaz Tribe and one of [[BigBad Theresis']] [[TheDragon top agents]], is finally defeated in Chapter 12. A combination of their ability to [[MesACrowd clone themselves]] seemingly-infinitely, their VoluntaryShapeshifting and their nature as a MindHive spread across the aforementioned clones means it's near impossible to kill them in a straight fight. However, they're also one of the [[TimeAbyss oldest beings]] on Terra, having been around since the ''original'' Sarkaz civilisation, the Teekaz, fell, and talking to Logos reveals just how monotonous The Damazti's current existence is: they really have SeenItAll and only really strive to emulate others to try and counteract their LackOfEmpathy. When Logos points out that the only thing they've not experienced yet is true death, The Damazti commends him, Amiya and The Doctor for their efforts before voluntarily expiring.]]

-->-- '''Martin Thomas''' in response to Advertising/TheBurgerKing being a part of Floyd Mayweather's entourage, ''[[https://youtu.be/UlGjiCMXLpE?t=192 JAMIE FOXX AND THE NATIONAL ANTHEM]]''

* A dramatic version of this was the original explanation for Gideon's disappearance on ''Series/CriminalMinds'' after Creator/MandyPatinkin quit. However, Patinkin refused to do that scene and it was changed to an indefinite road trip.

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

** In Clampett's adaptation of "[[Creator/DrSeuss Horton Hatches the Egg]]", a fish (a caricature of Peter Lorre) does this after seeing Horton, sitting on a nest in his tree, going by on the deck of a freighter.

* ''WebAnimation/CyanideAndHappiness'' played ''very'' straight in one episode, where a man wordlessly puts a gun to his head after witnessing a very bizarre series of events, and checking "see everything" off his bucket list.

* The possibility was invoked by Dr Johnson when he stated, "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." (Parodied with the Creator/DouglasAdams page-quote.)

* At the end of ''Machinima/HeavyIsDead'', after the Heavy came back to life and killed the Engineer, the Spy decried the whole scenario as being 'idiotic' and left to hang himself by backflipping off a chair.

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** Creator/TexAvery's "Cross Country Detours" has a scene where the narrator states, "Here we show you a close-up of a frog croaking," where the frog then pulls out a gun and shoots himself in the head.

** Creator/FrizFreleng's "WesternAnimation/BallotBoxBunny" ends with WesternAnimation/{{Bugs|Bunny}} and Sam playing RussianRoulette after losing an election to a (literal) "dark horse." Subverted when Bugs gets the gun and the scene irises out when you hear a bang, the iris reverses to find that Bugs "missed" and instead hit ''Sam'', who is not amused.

** In [=McKimson=]'s "Rabbit Romeo", a [[AbhorrentAdmirer lovesick]] female rabbit keeps pestering Bugs for a kiss. He pulls a goldfish out of a bowl and thrusts it into her face instead. Afterwards, the fish [[{{Hammerspace}} pulls out a pistol]], walks inside his tiny aquarium castle and seconds later a burst of bubbles erupts from the door.

** In Jones' "WesternAnimation/TheScarletPumpernickel", WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck's script ends with this: "There was nothing left for the Scarlet Pumpernickel to do but blow his brains out, which he did." And so does Daffy. (But avid viewers will notice that he only shot his hat.) Being ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', however, he recovers long enough to observe, "It's getting so you have to [[LiteralMetaphor kill yourself]] to sell a script in this town!"
* Wolfie in Tex Avery's MGM short "WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood", which is never shown nowadays. Ironic when you consider the original planned ending where Wolfie and Grandma have a family was apparently too shocking (you know with [[HalfHumanHybrid cubs]] implying certain [[InterspeciesRomance relations]]) and changed in favor of this one.