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* ''Series/FatherBrown'': In "[[Recap/FatherBrownS2E3 The Pride of the Prydes]]", the son of the woman who supposedly cursed the Pryde family shot her through the heart to spare her the fate of being burned alive at the stake. In the present day, Lady Lavinia attempts to poison Jago to spare him the fate of being hung for his crimes.
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* ''Series/Fallout2024'':
** Lucy and the Ghoul come across another ghoul named Roger in episode 4. Roger isn't doing so great and is on the verge of going feral, so the Ghoul [[LetThemDieHappy distracts him with talk of Pre-War ice cream and apple pie]] before shooting Roger in the head.
** In Episode 8, [[spoiler: Lucy learns her mother is now a feral ghoul after Shady Sands was nuked courtesy of her father Hank. Before she leaves the Griffith Observatory to join the Ghoul in pursuit of Hank, Lucy shoots her mother dead to put her out of her misery]].

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* ''Series/TheLastOfUs'': Episode 3 follows the story of Bill and Frank, two survivors of the ZombieApocalypse who found each other, found love, and lived a peaceful life together. When Frank falls ill to a terminal illness, he and Bill make a date to have their own personal wedding and share one last meal together, during which Frank would drink a fine wine laced with a lethal dose of sedatives, so he could die peacefully in his sleep. Bill helps him, and also drinks some of the poisoned wine himself so that he and Frank could stay TogetherInDeath.



* ''Series/LawmenBassReeves'':
** Bass kills One Charlie, a Native suspect who's on fire, to end his misery.
** Later his wife Jennie shoots a calf dead who's dying after coyotes had attacked and partly eaten it.
** Billy Crow finishes off an outlaw who he wounded with a shot to the head after Bass urges him to, since there's no doctor nearby that can help.



* ''Series/TheLastOfUs'': Episode 3 follows the story of Bill and Frank, two survivors of the ZombieApocalypse who found each other, found love, and lived a peaceful life together. When Frank falls ill to a terminal illness, he and Bill make a date to have their own personal wedding and share one last meal together, during which Frank would drink a fine wine laced with a lethal dose of sedatives, so he could die peacefully in his sleep. Bill helps him, and also drinks some of the poisoned wine himself so that he and Frank could stay TogetherInDeath.
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': While still murder under UK law, Pru Bennett was actually performing one of these in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS3E2 Blue Herrings]]". Her aunt, Celia Armstrong, faced a slow, undignified and agonising death from a terminal illness, and as the closest thing to a daughter she had, Pru couldn't bear to watch her suffer.
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* In the Turkish series ''Yakamoz S-245'', the crew of the eponymous submarine find a SoleSurvivor of the SolarFlareDisaster in a bank vault where he was protected from most of the radiation, but he's in such agony the Executive Officer shoots him. Later several other sailors get accidentally locked in the same vault, so their officer is shown placing his pistol on the table and lighting up OneLastSmoke.

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* In the Turkish series ''Yakamoz S-245'', the crew of the eponymous submarine find a SoleSurvivor of the SolarFlareDisaster in a bank vault where he was protected from most of the radiation, but he's in such agony the Executive Officer shoots him. Later several other sailors get accidentally locked in the same vault, vault shortly before another burst of radiation is going to hit, so their officer is shown placing his pistol on the table and lighting up OneLastSmoke.
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* In the Turkish series ''Yakamoz S-245'', the crew of the eponymous submarine find a SoleSurvivor of the SolarFlareDisaster in a bank vault where he was protected from most of the radiation, but he's in such agony the Executive Officer shoots him. Later several other sailors get accidentally locked in the same vault, so their officer is shown placing his pistol on the table and lighting up OneLastSmoke.
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** In the Lian Yu flashbacks, after Slade Wilson [[KickTheSonOfABitch cuts Dr. Ivo's hand off]] the wound becomes infected and [[WeUsedToBeFriends he asks Sara Lance]] to shoot him to spare himself from a lingering death. Oliver Queen does it instead, not wanting Sara to become a killer (which is DramaticIrony as the audience knows she will later join the League of Assassins).

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** In the Lian Yu flashbacks, after Slade Wilson [[KickTheSonOfABitch cuts Dr. Ivo's hand off]] off the wound becomes infected and [[WeUsedToBeFriends he asks Sara Lance]] to shoot him to spare himself from a lingering death. Oliver Queen does it instead, not wanting Sara to become a killer (which is DramaticIrony as the audience knows she will later join the League of Assassins).
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* In one of the most emotional moments in the ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', Damon is forced to stake his longtime friend and former lover Rose after she gets werewolf venom in her system, which condemns a vampire to a long and painful death. To ease her suffering, he uses his telepathy to give her a [[DyingDream]] before finally ending her life.

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* In one of the most emotional moments in the ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', Damon is forced to stake his longtime friend and former lover Rose after she gets werewolf venom in her system, which condemns a vampire to a long and painful death. To ease her suffering, he uses his telepathy to give her a [[DyingDream]] DyingDream before finally ending her life.
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** Happens again in ''Series/StargateUniverse', when Col. Young puts Airman Riley out of his misery from being pinned under debris after a shuttle crash.

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** Happens again in ''Series/StargateUniverse', ''Series/StargateUniverse'', when Col. Young puts Airman Riley out of his misery from being pinned under debris after a shuttle crash.
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** In the flashbacks of the same season, after Taiana became possessed by the [[ArtifactOfDoom Khushu idol]], she begs Oliver to kill her so that she [[HeWhoFightsMonsters doesn't become like Reiter.]] Oliver reluctantly does so.

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