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** School shootings in particular are infamous for this, although the causes are disputed, ranging from bullying to mental illness.
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* In the very early moments of the Universe, just after the Big Bang, [[FusionDance quarks and antiquarks combined]] to form [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryogenesis baryons and antibaryons]][[note]]What makes atomic nuclei (protons, neutrons, and their antimatter equivalent)[[/note]],that proceeded to annihilate themselves. We are made of the small percentage of matter that survived it[[note]]''Why'' was created more matter than antimatter is one problem still unsolved in physics[[/note]].
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* SunTzu also talked this on the flip side of ToWinWithoutFighting. "If you're surrounded with no hope of victory, cut off your escape routes to encourage your men to fight to the death."
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* SunTzu Creator/SunTzu also talked this on the flip side of ToWinWithoutFighting. "If you're surrounded with no hope of victory, cut off your escape routes to encourage your men to fight to the death."
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** There's a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_quail#Poisoning type of quail whose meat becomes toxic after it eats certain plants]]. Anything that eats the meat becomes violently ill and may end up with kidney failure.
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* The concept of being "too big to fail" in economics means that if a financial institution collapses, it takes ''everything'' with it, as clearly demonstrated during the 2008 financial crisis when a number of American banks did just that, collapsing under the weight of rotten debt and criminal accounting practices. Thousands of people lost their jobs and homes, while the architects of that crisis [[KarmaHoudini walked away scot-free]] thanks to [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections their chumminess with the SEC]].
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* Related to the above example is the thesis of the book Empire by Niall Ferguson, which argues that [[WinstonChurchill Churchill's]] entire strategy in [[WorldWar2 WWII]] was a kind of national self-sacrifice which involved exhausting the British Empire and probably causing its breakup, if only to deny the far more atrocious imperial powers of Japan and [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi Germany]] an ultimate victory. In short, [[YouShallNotPass 400 years of the British Empire was expended in a last great hurrah to destroy perhaps the greatest evil the world has ever known.]] The Realm Abides.
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* Related to the above example is the thesis of the book Empire by Niall Ferguson, which argues that [[WinstonChurchill Churchill's]] entire strategy in [[WorldWar2 [[UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 WWII]] was a kind of national self-sacrifice which involved exhausting the British Empire and probably causing its breakup, if only to deny the far more atrocious imperial powers of Japan and [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi Germany]] an ultimate victory. In short, [[YouShallNotPass 400 years of the British Empire was expended in a last great hurrah to destroy perhaps the greatest evil the world has ever known.]] The Realm Abides.
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* The Kray twins, London's most notorious gangsters, were considered untouchable until Reggie Kray stabbed small-time gang member Jack "the Hat" [=McVitie=] to death in October 1967. The London underworld began to turn against the Krays - gang members who feared meeting the same fate left the gang and agreed to testify to the police, giving them enough evidence to finally arrest the Krays and their associates. Reggie was ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment for [=McVitie=]'s murder, while Ronnie and the other members were sentenced for various other crimes that the turncoat gang members had told them about. This wasn't intentional on [=McVitie=]'s part, but the fact remains that his death almost single-handedly triggered the collapse of the Krays' entire organization.
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* Has happened to several families in the wake of the recession. For example, a Seattle woman, Chhouy Harm, shot and killed her son-in-law and two of her granddaughters before taking her own life. In many cases, including this one, the killer was already depressed and/or mentally ill, and the economic crisis was the last straw.
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* There's little argument that the USA's infamous 'School Shootings' come under this trope, though ''why'' is not so well-understood - especially given that the phenomenon seems to be confined to their country, though that could just be because about half their population is armed (versus 15% or less for other economically-developed countries). One argument goes that they are usually committed by boys who have been bullied beyond the DespairEventHorizon and who see the whole of humankind as their enemies. In this school of thought shootings are not mere expanded suicides, but they are a similar reaction to a cornered rat who has no other escape but attacking anyone in the vicinity. On the other hand that argument portrays 'killing loads of innocent people' as the pitious and excusable action of a victim (as opposed to a cruel act of murderous insanity), so it's easy to see why it doesn't find much purchase outside the USA.
** Although the rate of school shootings in the USA is high, in fact they take place on every continent. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting School shootings that killed more than ten victims]] have taken place in Canada, Germany, the UK, Finland, Brazil and Azerbaijan.
** Although the rate of school shootings in the USA is high, in fact they take place on every continent. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting School shootings that killed more than ten victims]] have taken place in Canada, Germany, the UK, Finland, Brazil and Azerbaijan.
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** The hijackers themselves were using their own lives to cause as much destruction as possible.
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* Inversion. Western Allies often regarded this as [[WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife senseless spite]] in Germans and Japanese toward the end of the war. This is MoralMyopia as they found it easier to understand in those times when their own team did such things earlier in the war. Though they could at least say that the war wasn't so obviously lost for them at the time and in that context it [[CombatPragmatist served a purpose]] in weakening the enemy for future campaigns, putting a kink in his time schedule and so forth; and was therefore not ''just'' HonorBeforeReason , though the latter motive was not unknown among them either. Allies attributed it to fascist indoctrination(with a considerable degree of truth) when their enemies did it, though it can sound slightly ungracious from the comfortable context of peace. They did have a point; everyone wanted to go home to their families by then after all. In any case it was another excuse to be angry at their enemies so no one seemed to mind. Considering this the influence of ThoseWackyNazis was not illogical in Germany at least. Before WorldWarII German soldiers were brave enough, but their governments were more willing to make terms, soldiers didn't fight any longer then [[GoodOldWays tradition demanded]], and [[HonorBeforeReason honor did not abolish reason]] . Furthermore a number of [[GoodOldWays old-school German soldiers]] really preferred it this way even during WorldWarII and were motivated by the Party's idea of [[IHaveYourWife encouragement]] to fight longer then they would otherwise have. In any case it is less heroic when one considers that it was often more at the orders of people living in luxury who mainly wished to delay their appointment with the hangman, then at the will of those who were actually fighting.
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* Inversion.UsefulNotes/WorldWarII inverted this. Western Allies often regarded this as [[WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife senseless spite]] in Germans and Japanese toward the end of the war. This is MoralMyopia as they found it easier to understand in those times when their own team did such things earlier in the war. Though they could at least say that the war wasn't so obviously lost for them at the time and in that context it [[CombatPragmatist served a purpose]] in weakening the enemy for future campaigns, putting a kink in his time schedule and so forth; and was therefore not ''just'' HonorBeforeReason , though the latter motive was not unknown among them either. Allies attributed it to fascist indoctrination(with a considerable degree of truth) when their enemies did it, though it can sound slightly ungracious from the comfortable context of peace. They did have a point; everyone wanted to go home to their families by then after all. In any case it was another excuse to be angry at their enemies so no one seemed to mind. Considering this the influence of ThoseWackyNazis was not illogical in Germany at least. Before WorldWarII German soldiers were brave enough, but their governments were more willing to make terms, soldiers didn't fight any longer then [[GoodOldWays tradition demanded]], and [[HonorBeforeReason honor did not abolish reason]] . Furthermore a number of [[GoodOldWays old-school German soldiers]] really preferred it this way even during WorldWarII and were motivated by the Party's idea of [[IHaveYourWife encouragement]] to fight longer then they would otherwise have. In any case it is less heroic when one considers that it was often more at the orders of people living in luxury who mainly wished to delay their appointment with the hangman, then at the will of those who were actually fighting.
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** One of Hitler's last orders was to destroy the public infrastructure of ''Germany'' since, in his SocialDarwinist mindset, Germany's defeat at the hands of Slavs and Anglo-Saxons showed the Germanic Race was clearly inferior to them and not worthy to be the Master Race after all. Albert Speer took on the responsibility for carrying it out, but didn't.
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** One of Hitler's [[SoreLoser Hitler]]'s [[VillainousBreakdown last orders orders]] was to destroy the public infrastructure of ''Germany'' since, in his SocialDarwinist mindset, [[YouHaveFailedMe Germany's defeat at the hands of Slavs and Anglo-Saxons showed meant that the Germanic Race was clearly inferior to them and not worthy to be the Master Race after all. all and as such did not deserve to exist.]] Albert Speer took on the responsibility for carrying it out, but didn't.
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*** Consider Germany's history. In WW1 they had performed as they had been expected to: Fight while there is hope, make peace when there is no more. When the German government asked for an armistice German troops stood in Northern France and were slowly withdrawing while still inflicting significant casualties. There were no foreign troops on German soil and it was dubious whether there would be in 1919 if the war had gone on. At Versailles Germany lost 10% of its people and 13% of its area; 80% of its iron ore, around 15% of its agriculture, etc. Probably the harshest peace terms any European nation had faced in a long time. And no imagine knowing that you have already fought well beyond reasonable time against an enemy who already hated you last time. Wouldn't you be willing to believe that there is genocide in the cards, too?
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* Most engagements, where one opponent is defeated but the winner later falls victim to wounds or damage, is an example of this trope. Such was the case of the German commerce raider ''Kormorant'' after her [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_between_HMAS_Sydney_and_German_auxiliary_cruiser_Kormoran battle]] with the Australian light cruiser ''Sidney'', with the TearJerker part being that all of ''Sidney'' crew died.
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** a snake ate centipede,centipede bitten snake and escaped from it's stomach and unfortunately shortly after died from its venom[[http://www.telegraf.rs/zanimljivosti/1035738-da-li-mozete-da-poverujete-da-je-stonoga-ubila-zmiju-pogledajte-i-kako]].
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** In modern air combat, this is what is theorized will happen should a fight between opposing fighters get into visual range. With the advent of "high off-boresight" missiles, a fighter pilot can fire on a target at his 3-o'clock or 9-o'clock rather than just directly ahead of him. Two opposing planes armed with these missiles will likely fire them at each other, resulting in a "mutual kill". In such an exchange, it's to your side's advantage if you sacrifice a cheaper plane to knock out an enemy's more expensive one, although on the other hand a cheaper plane is less likely to survive to make it into visual range.
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* The Israeli "Samson Option"- if all hope is lost and Israel is about to be defeated, launch nukes at the responsible party or parties.
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* The death of "Pretty Boy" Floyd: when FBI agents tried to capture him, he retaliated with gun fire, [[MultipleGunshotDeath and even after being gunned repeatedly by the agents that he was facing off against]], he still managed to fatally wound two of them.
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* Several examples can be found in sports, one would be the final round of the [[TheBeautifulGame Danish Superliga]], where one of the matches were between Randers and Esbjerg in Randers, two teams struggling against relegation. Randers had originally said that they would not bring scores from other matches over the speakers, but when Lyngby got a 2-0 lead against Odense in the 80th minute (a result that meant Esbjerg were relegated for sure), Randers were leading 2-1 and the stadium speaker said what the score was in the other match. [[LaserGuidedKarma Tim Janssen, Dutch Esbjerg striker, scored in the 89th minute, relegating both teams]].
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* Several examples can be found in sports, one would be the final round of the [[TheBeautifulGame [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball Danish Superliga]], where one of the matches were between Randers and Esbjerg in Randers, two teams struggling against relegation. Randers had originally said that they would not bring scores from other matches over the speakers, but when Lyngby got a 2-0 lead against Odense in the 80th minute (a result that meant Esbjerg were relegated for sure), Randers were leading 2-1 and the stadium speaker said what the score was in the other match. [[LaserGuidedKarma Tim Janssen, Dutch Esbjerg striker, scored in the 89th minute, relegating both teams]].
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* The concept of being "too big to fail" in economics means that if a financial institution collapses, it takes ''everything'' with it, as clearly demonstrated during the 2008 financial crisis when a number of American banks did just that, collapsing under the weight of rotten debt and criminal accounting practices. Thousands of people lost their jobs and homes, while the architects of that crisis [[KarmaHoudini walked away scot-free]] thanks to [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections their chumminess with the SEC]].
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** It did not help that as early as Operation Torch, the Allies and Roosevelt in particular was vocal about an unconditional surrender. Not only did the call for no terms not work, there was also the leaked Morgenthau Plan (Splitting Germany up and turning it back into farmland) This revelation crossed over the lines and it was all that was needed to convince the Party, the Wehrmacht and common citizenry of Germany to fight until the very end.
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* In the very early moments of the Universe, just after the Big Bang, [[FusionDance quarks and antiquarks combined]] to form [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryogenesis baryons and antibaryons]][[note]]What makes atomic nuclei (protons, neutrons, and their antimatter equivalent)[[/note]],that proceeded to annihilate themselves. We are made of the small percentage of matter that survived it[[note]]''Why'' was created more matter than antimatter is one problem still unsolved in physics[[/note]].
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* In one hand, galaxy clusters are ''very'' unhealthy for spiral galaxies like ours[[note]]Since, for example, interactions with the hot gas that fills the space between the galaxies on them strips the interstellar gas of a galaxy, quenching star formation but not before often triggering extensive star formation[[/note]]. On the other, when two spiral galaxies collide they get ''very'' messed up, including to form a lot of new stars, before [[FusionDance merging]] to form a larger one. [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001A%26A...377..745G Meet]] [[http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/u6697/ UGC 6697]], a system where it's believed two galaxies are colliding and wrecking themselves apart while falling into a galaxy cluster that is stripping their gas... at the same time they're making stars galore.
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** Sadly, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_350 he]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAM_Mozambique_Airlines_Flight_470 was]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Maroc_Flight_630 not]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Air_Lines_Flight_773 the]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771 first]].
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* Many small animals are highly poisonous or make very loud noises or even start to glow brightly when attacked by a predator to [[SummonBiggerFish attract even more predators.]] While this doesn't really do anything to save themselves specifically, it teaches the predator species to leave their kind alone in the future.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camponotus_saundersi Exploding ants]].
** Honey bees have barbs on their stingers, which lodge in the body of their target and are ripped out of the abdomen of the bee while continuing to pump venom. Unfortunately for the honey bee, the injury caused by doing this is fatal and they die soon afterwards.
*** It is a rather sad subversion actually. A bee can sting another insect and kill it without any harm to itself, but to a bigger animal its [[LastBreathBullet Last Breath Sting]] will most likely not be lethal.
** Many an animal mortally wounded by a hunter has had time enough to return the favor (or attempt to) before finally succumbing.
*** Brown Bears and African Cape Buffalo are both particularly infamous for this.
*** This is the reason [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_spear boar spears]] have the lugs at the head.
* Fighter pilots often [[RammingAlwaysWorks crashed their crippled planes into their intended target]]. The Japanese ''kamikaze'' intentionally set out to do this, flying planes packed with explosives specifically for that purpose.
** The Soviets were masters on the ''taran'' attacks, ramming an enemy airplane with one's own. Exchanging a dated I-153 or I-16 fighter to a new Ju 88 is actually good deal, and there are always chances of parachuting.
** Eventually, tactics were developed so that the ramming attack doesn't necessarily kill the pilot who attempts it. Some pilots added steel edges on their propellers turning them effectively into flying buzzsaws, One Soviet pilot, Boris Kobzan, actually managed to do it four times.
** One German fighter group, the ''Sonderkommando Elbe'', tried out a slightly less suicidal version against massed American bomber raids. Instead of ramming a ship with a bomb-laden plane, they'd use their craft to deal enough damage to a bomber to knock it out of the sky--along with their own craft--hopefully bailing out just before or after impact. Aside from a few notable instances, it was not effective at all--only the fact that decent German fighter pilots were far rarer than a German fighter plane by that point in the war made this tactic have any degree of practicality whatsoever.
** British reports from the Battle of Britain tell that some Polish fighter pilots, [[FightingForAHomeland in an apparent nationalistic rage against their Nazi combatants,]] intentionally rammed their planes into the German bombers.
* The Hashashin, from whom we've derived the term "assassin," were known for attacking targets with ritual daggers, usually in a suicidal assault, to ensure that their victims would not escape.
** It's also possible that instead of their suicidal attacks to ensure the victim dies, it's to ensure that the killer also dies, seeing as how their suicidal attacks show how dedicated to the cause the Hashashin is.
*** And it likewise ensures they'd never be interrogated, to the benefit of their superiors whose secrets would be protected, and possibly to themselves if interrogation entailed torture.
*** It also makes the assassination plan much simpler and more effective: The hardest part of most assassination plans is the assassin's escape afterwards, and it is also the part most likely to cause the kill to not happen.
* The entire Philippine campaign in 1941 from the American point of view. American contingency plans, despite fifty years of preparation for war with Japan, couldn't figure out how to prevent the Philipines from being captured. Yet no one could abandon them as, if one is going to be an imperialist, one [[HonorBeforeReason should at least]] protect one's charges from other imperialists. In a strange sort of way it was an American version of Bushido. Be that as it may the Philipines took a long time and [[SpannerInTheWorks interfered with the Japanese schedule considerably]].
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Speyk Jan van Speyk]] was a Dutch naval commander, who fought against the Belgian Revolution. In 1831, Belgians captured his boat, and demanded him take the Dutch flag down. He said "Rather to blow up then!" and fired a pistol into a barrel of gunpowder, destroying his boat, and killing dozens (including most of his own crew).
* The British destroyer ''Glowworm'' rammed the German heavy cruiser ''Admiral Hipper'' in WWII, heavily damaging the German ship. The commander of the ''Glowworm'' was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross, partly due to the recommendation of the German captain of the ''Hipper'', who wrote of the incident to the British authorities via the Red Cross.
* The Russian bylina tales tell of Chuds (Baltic Finno-Ugric peoples), who rather committed mass suicides than surrendered to invading Russians. They dug underground dungeons, took their valuables and possibles there, and then collapsed the structures when the Russians came to loot, killing themselves and the attackers both. Such caves have been found.
* Kashmir seperatists and Pakistani Taliban often launch suicidal attacks, with 'fedayeen' fighters, a small unit of 5-10 soldiers sent deep into enemy territory and attack targets with abandon until stopped and killed by the response.
* There have been all too many reported cases of murder-suicides involving "average folk" to name any specific examples.
* The strategy of "mutually assured destruction" (a.k.a. [[FunWithAcronyms MAD]]).
** The Soviets' 'Dead Hand' system was the best example of this: it made certain that in the event of a catastrophic attack crippling the government, nukes would be automatically fired at the United States and its allies. [[spoiler: It's most probably still in place today.]] Interestingly, the system was apparently set in the first place as a ''safety'' device because no matter how edgy or jingoistic the KGB, Party, or Military got (political life in the USSR after Stalin was a constant three-way tug of war), the system would ''only'' go off after a ''confirmed'' nuclear detonation ''and'' the chain of command had been cut.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_of_Moscow_(1812) The Fire of Moscow.]]
* Sir Creator/TerryPratchett has stated that he plans on doing this to his Alzheimers. It isn't a joke; he's lobbying to get assisted suicide panels in the UK.
-->"I decided that I was going to make Alzheimer's sorry it had caught me."
** Sadly, Pratchett did not get the chance, dying of Alzheimer's related problems on March 12th, 2015.
* Spetsnaz, the Russian special forces soldiers, always keep at least one grenade on them for this exact purpose in combat.
* The Samurai had an expression for doing just this: "Taking a souvenir to Hell."
* The Russian folk hero [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Susanin Ivan Susanin]] ostensibly lured a squad of Polish soldiers into the thickets of the forest never to be heard about again, after they hired him to guide them to the residense of the Russian tsar they intended to assassinate. During World War 2 the deed was reenacted by another peasant, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matvey_Kuzmin Matvey Kuzmin]]. The Nazi who occupied his village wanted him to help them bypass the Soviet defences. He agreed but then sent his grandson to warn the nearby Soviet troops, and then led the Nazis straight into the ambush. The Nazi were slaughtered or captured, but not before their officer shot Matvey. He was buried with military honors and became the oldest holder of the Hero of the Soviet Union order.
* This happened unintentionally during an attack on the convoy SC 107 during WWII. The German submarine U-132 torpedoed the British freighter SS Hatimura, setting off a cargo of ammunition, and sank after getting pelted with debris.
* The Israeli "Samson Option"- if all hope is lost and Israel is about to be defeated, launch nukes at the responsible party or parties.
* Has happened to several families in the wake of the recession. For example, a Seattle woman, Chhouy Harm, shot and killed her son-in-law and two of her granddaughters before taking her own life. In many cases, including this one, the killer was already depressed and/or mentally ill, and the economic crisis was the last straw.
* Inversion. Western Allies often regarded this as [[WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife senseless spite]] in Germans and Japanese toward the end of the war. This is MoralMyopia as they found it easier to understand in those times when their own team did such things earlier in the war. Though they could at least say that the war wasn't so obviously lost for them at the time and in that context it [[CombatPragmatist served a purpose]] in weakening the enemy for future campaigns, putting a kink in his time schedule and so forth; and was therefore not ''just'' HonorBeforeReason , though the latter motive was not unknown among them either. Allies attributed it to fascist indoctrination(with a considerable degree of truth) when their enemies did it, though it can sound slightly ungracious from the comfortable context of peace. They did have a point; everyone wanted to go home to their families by then after all. In any case it was another excuse to be angry at their enemies so no one seemed to mind. Considering this the influence of ThoseWackyNazis was not illogical in Germany at least. Before WorldWarII German soldiers were brave enough, but their governments were more willing to make terms, soldiers didn't fight any longer then [[GoodOldWays tradition demanded]], and [[HonorBeforeReason honor did not abolish reason]] . Furthermore a number of [[GoodOldWays old-school German soldiers]] really preferred it this way even during WorldWarII and were motivated by the Party's idea of [[IHaveYourWife encouragement]] to fight longer then they would otherwise have. In any case it is less heroic when one considers that it was often more at the orders of people living in luxury who mainly wished to delay their appointment with the hangman, then at the will of those who were actually fighting.
** One of Hitler's last orders was to destroy the public infrastructure of ''Germany'' since, in his SocialDarwinist mindset, Germany's defeat at the hands of Slavs and Anglo-Saxons showed the Germanic Race was clearly inferior to them and not worthy to be the Master Race after all. Albert Speer took on the responsibility for carrying it out, but didn't.
* Related to the above example is the thesis of the book Empire by Niall Ferguson, which argues that [[WinstonChurchill Churchill's]] entire strategy in [[WorldWar2 WWII]] was a kind of national self-sacrifice which involved exhausting the British Empire and probably causing its breakup, if only to deny the far more atrocious imperial powers of Japan and [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi Germany]] an ultimate victory. In short, [[YouShallNotPass 400 years of the British Empire was expended in a last great hurrah to destroy perhaps the greatest evil the world has ever known.]] The Realm Abides.
* There's little argument that the USA's infamous 'School Shootings' come under this trope, though ''why'' is not so well-understood - especially given that the phenomenon seems to be confined to their country, though that could just be because about half their population is armed (versus 15% or less for other economically-developed countries). One argument goes that they are usually committed by boys who have been bullied beyond the DespairEventHorizon and who see the whole of humankind as their enemies. In this school of thought shootings are not mere expanded suicides, but they are a similar reaction to a cornered rat who has no other escape but attacking anyone in the vicinity. On the other hand that argument portrays 'killing loads of innocent people' as the pitious and excusable action of a victim (as opposed to a cruel act of murderous insanity), so it's easy to see why it doesn't find much purchase outside the USA.
** Although the rate of school shootings in the USA is high, in fact they take place on every continent. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting School shootings that killed more than ten victims]] have taken place in Canada, Germany, the UK, Finland, Brazil and Azerbaijan.
* If the Sun dies in about 5 billion years, its transformation into a red giant will actually destroy a large portion of our Solar System.
* Several examples can be found in sports, one would be the final round of the [[TheBeautifulGame Danish Superliga]], where one of the matches were between Randers and Esbjerg in Randers, two teams struggling against relegation. Randers had originally said that they would not bring scores from other matches over the speakers, but when Lyngby got a 2-0 lead against Odense in the 80th minute (a result that meant Esbjerg were relegated for sure), Randers were leading 2-1 and the stadium speaker said what the score was in the other match. [[LaserGuidedKarma Tim Janssen, Dutch Esbjerg striker, scored in the 89th minute, relegating both teams]].
* SunTzu also talked this on the flip side of ToWinWithoutFighting. "If you're surrounded with no hope of victory, cut off your escape routes to encourage your men to fight to the death."
** Conversely, he advised against cutting off the opponent's line of retreat. If his only option is to fight, you have no idea what he might do when he starts losing.
*** Mongols were adept at exploiting this. In several battles (e.g. Battle of Sajo River), Mongols deliberately opened up what seemed to be a possible escape route for their enemies, only to have those escape routes turn into traps once their losing adversaries took to flight in disarray.
** Sun Tzu sought victory, not death. When confronted by superior opposition, moving to ground that offered no escape wasn't meant to invoke this trope. It was meant to make it clear to your subordinates there was no way out but through, making them absolute hellions in defense. If there is no retreat, rout is impossible, and the enemy encountering your own unbreakable troops might well panic.
* Even your own body cells exhibit this trope. Post-apoptosis, dying neutrophils can release their DNA and chromatin to entrap bacteria as a final attack to protect the body.
** Neutrophils are also full of enzymes and reactive compounds that damage both animal cells and bacteria. When killed, these enzymes can leak and non-specifically start tearing apart everything in the area. Additionally, leaked cellular communication molecules called cytokines can leak and lead to significant inflammation. This process creates a lined cavity called an abscess which is filled with liquified tissue and bacteria, aka pus.
** Any cell infected with a virus or which has lost control of its own reproduction (I.E. risks becoming part of a tumor) has a good chance to commit programmed cell death, or apoptosis, in order to cease being a virus/tumor factory. At other times, cells combine this with SuicideByCop, as they change their surface markers to mark themselves for destruction by the immune system (TheNeedsOfTheMany, of course). The mechanisms are quite complex.
* Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen was fired from Rabobank in 2007. Come 2013, he's taking his former team to court with a claim that the team shouldn't have fired him, because they knew exactly what he was doing and that he was doping.
** Furthermore, he's now working with several anti-doping organizations, telling them everything he knows.
* Had the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis escalated into general war and the US launched an invasion of Cuba, Fidel Castro stated in a 1992 interview that he would have recommended to the Soviet advisors the use of some 100 tactical warheads (that ''US intelligence did not know about'') against the invasion, knowing that doing so would result in the destruction of Cuba and the likely deaths of some 100 million civilians each in the US and Soviet Union from the massive nuclear exchange that would follow.
* [[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1006_051006_pythoneatsgator.html In 2005, a python ate an alligator and then exploded.]]
* A man found a mouse in his home and threw it out on his burn pile. The terrified [[ManOnFire flaming mouse]] survived long enough to run back inside the house [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4593682.stm and burn the entire thing to the ground]].
* The Flight 93 passengers [[HeroicSacrifice knew what they to do to save Washington, D.C. from a group of terrorists]], but they also had this response to the terrorists when the passengers attacked them. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck They knew it'll end badly]] but they didn't care because they were bringing the terrorists with them.
* A western spy in the Soviet Union nearly did this when, after being captured, he used his suicide capsule. Not only did the pill kill him, fumes from it nearly killed the doctors trying to save him.
* After cutting off a cobra's head to cook the rest of it, [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2732523/Chef-dies-spitting-cobra-cooking-bit-hand-20-minutes-cut-head-off.html a Chinese Chef gets bitten by the severed head and dies from the venom]].
* A child or teen facing punishment may claim others were involved in the hopes that said (real or imagined) conspirators too get punished.
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Chevalier_%28DD-451%29 USS Chevalier]] went out this way in WWII. Fatally damaged by a torpedo from the Japanese destroyer Yuugumo, the crew fired one last torpedo before abandoning ship, which struck Yuugumo and caused her to explode and sink.
* This is a theorized reason for why Andreas Lubitz crashed Germanwings Flight 9525. He had already been diagnosed with severe depression and had been deemed unfit to fly earlier, but for whatever reason, he hid this information from his employers. When his co-pilot left the cabin, he locked the door and set the plane into landing mode early, taking 149 other people with him.
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** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camponotus_saundersi Exploding ants]].
** Honey bees have barbs on their stingers, which lodge in the body of their target and are ripped out of the abdomen of the bee while continuing to pump venom. Unfortunately for the honey bee, the injury caused by doing this is fatal and they die soon afterwards.
*** It is a rather sad subversion actually. A bee can sting another insect and kill it without any harm to itself, but to a bigger animal its [[LastBreathBullet Last Breath Sting]] will most likely not be lethal.
** Many an animal mortally wounded by a hunter has had time enough to return the favor (or attempt to) before finally succumbing.
*** Brown Bears and African Cape Buffalo are both particularly infamous for this.
*** This is the reason [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_spear boar spears]] have the lugs at the head.
* Fighter pilots often [[RammingAlwaysWorks crashed their crippled planes into their intended target]]. The Japanese ''kamikaze'' intentionally set out to do this, flying planes packed with explosives specifically for that purpose.
** The Soviets were masters on the ''taran'' attacks, ramming an enemy airplane with one's own. Exchanging a dated I-153 or I-16 fighter to a new Ju 88 is actually good deal, and there are always chances of parachuting.
** Eventually, tactics were developed so that the ramming attack doesn't necessarily kill the pilot who attempts it. Some pilots added steel edges on their propellers turning them effectively into flying buzzsaws, One Soviet pilot, Boris Kobzan, actually managed to do it four times.
** One German fighter group, the ''Sonderkommando Elbe'', tried out a slightly less suicidal version against massed American bomber raids. Instead of ramming a ship with a bomb-laden plane, they'd use their craft to deal enough damage to a bomber to knock it out of the sky--along with their own craft--hopefully bailing out just before or after impact. Aside from a few notable instances, it was not effective at all--only the fact that decent German fighter pilots were far rarer than a German fighter plane by that point in the war made this tactic have any degree of practicality whatsoever.
** British reports from the Battle of Britain tell that some Polish fighter pilots, [[FightingForAHomeland in an apparent nationalistic rage against their Nazi combatants,]] intentionally rammed their planes into the German bombers.
* The Hashashin, from whom we've derived the term "assassin," were known for attacking targets with ritual daggers, usually in a suicidal assault, to ensure that their victims would not escape.
** It's also possible that instead of their suicidal attacks to ensure the victim dies, it's to ensure that the killer also dies, seeing as how their suicidal attacks show how dedicated to the cause the Hashashin is.
*** And it likewise ensures they'd never be interrogated, to the benefit of their superiors whose secrets would be protected, and possibly to themselves if interrogation entailed torture.
*** It also makes the assassination plan much simpler and more effective: The hardest part of most assassination plans is the assassin's escape afterwards, and it is also the part most likely to cause the kill to not happen.
* The entire Philippine campaign in 1941 from the American point of view. American contingency plans, despite fifty years of preparation for war with Japan, couldn't figure out how to prevent the Philipines from being captured. Yet no one could abandon them as, if one is going to be an imperialist, one [[HonorBeforeReason should at least]] protect one's charges from other imperialists. In a strange sort of way it was an American version of Bushido. Be that as it may the Philipines took a long time and [[SpannerInTheWorks interfered with the Japanese schedule considerably]].
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Speyk Jan van Speyk]] was a Dutch naval commander, who fought against the Belgian Revolution. In 1831, Belgians captured his boat, and demanded him take the Dutch flag down. He said "Rather to blow up then!" and fired a pistol into a barrel of gunpowder, destroying his boat, and killing dozens (including most of his own crew).
* The British destroyer ''Glowworm'' rammed the German heavy cruiser ''Admiral Hipper'' in WWII, heavily damaging the German ship. The commander of the ''Glowworm'' was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross, partly due to the recommendation of the German captain of the ''Hipper'', who wrote of the incident to the British authorities via the Red Cross.
* The Russian bylina tales tell of Chuds (Baltic Finno-Ugric peoples), who rather committed mass suicides than surrendered to invading Russians. They dug underground dungeons, took their valuables and possibles there, and then collapsed the structures when the Russians came to loot, killing themselves and the attackers both. Such caves have been found.
* Kashmir seperatists and Pakistani Taliban often launch suicidal attacks, with 'fedayeen' fighters, a small unit of 5-10 soldiers sent deep into enemy territory and attack targets with abandon until stopped and killed by the response.
* There have been all too many reported cases of murder-suicides involving "average folk" to name any specific examples.
* The strategy of "mutually assured destruction" (a.k.a. [[FunWithAcronyms MAD]]).
** The Soviets' 'Dead Hand' system was the best example of this: it made certain that in the event of a catastrophic attack crippling the government, nukes would be automatically fired at the United States and its allies. [[spoiler: It's most probably still in place today.]] Interestingly, the system was apparently set in the first place as a ''safety'' device because no matter how edgy or jingoistic the KGB, Party, or Military got (political life in the USSR after Stalin was a constant three-way tug of war), the system would ''only'' go off after a ''confirmed'' nuclear detonation ''and'' the chain of command had been cut.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_of_Moscow_(1812) The Fire of Moscow.]]
* Sir Creator/TerryPratchett has stated that he plans on doing this to his Alzheimers. It isn't a joke; he's lobbying to get assisted suicide panels in the UK.
-->"I decided that I was going to make Alzheimer's sorry it had caught me."
** Sadly, Pratchett did not get the chance, dying of Alzheimer's related problems on March 12th, 2015.
* Spetsnaz, the Russian special forces soldiers, always keep at least one grenade on them for this exact purpose in combat.
* The Samurai had an expression for doing just this: "Taking a souvenir to Hell."
* The Russian folk hero [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Susanin Ivan Susanin]] ostensibly lured a squad of Polish soldiers into the thickets of the forest never to be heard about again, after they hired him to guide them to the residense of the Russian tsar they intended to assassinate. During World War 2 the deed was reenacted by another peasant, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matvey_Kuzmin Matvey Kuzmin]]. The Nazi who occupied his village wanted him to help them bypass the Soviet defences. He agreed but then sent his grandson to warn the nearby Soviet troops, and then led the Nazis straight into the ambush. The Nazi were slaughtered or captured, but not before their officer shot Matvey. He was buried with military honors and became the oldest holder of the Hero of the Soviet Union order.
* This happened unintentionally during an attack on the convoy SC 107 during WWII. The German submarine U-132 torpedoed the British freighter SS Hatimura, setting off a cargo of ammunition, and sank after getting pelted with debris.
* The Israeli "Samson Option"- if all hope is lost and Israel is about to be defeated, launch nukes at the responsible party or parties.
* Has happened to several families in the wake of the recession. For example, a Seattle woman, Chhouy Harm, shot and killed her son-in-law and two of her granddaughters before taking her own life. In many cases, including this one, the killer was already depressed and/or mentally ill, and the economic crisis was the last straw.
* Inversion. Western Allies often regarded this as [[WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife senseless spite]] in Germans and Japanese toward the end of the war. This is MoralMyopia as they found it easier to understand in those times when their own team did such things earlier in the war. Though they could at least say that the war wasn't so obviously lost for them at the time and in that context it [[CombatPragmatist served a purpose]] in weakening the enemy for future campaigns, putting a kink in his time schedule and so forth; and was therefore not ''just'' HonorBeforeReason , though the latter motive was not unknown among them either. Allies attributed it to fascist indoctrination(with a considerable degree of truth) when their enemies did it, though it can sound slightly ungracious from the comfortable context of peace. They did have a point; everyone wanted to go home to their families by then after all. In any case it was another excuse to be angry at their enemies so no one seemed to mind. Considering this the influence of ThoseWackyNazis was not illogical in Germany at least. Before WorldWarII German soldiers were brave enough, but their governments were more willing to make terms, soldiers didn't fight any longer then [[GoodOldWays tradition demanded]], and [[HonorBeforeReason honor did not abolish reason]] . Furthermore a number of [[GoodOldWays old-school German soldiers]] really preferred it this way even during WorldWarII and were motivated by the Party's idea of [[IHaveYourWife encouragement]] to fight longer then they would otherwise have. In any case it is less heroic when one considers that it was often more at the orders of people living in luxury who mainly wished to delay their appointment with the hangman, then at the will of those who were actually fighting.
** One of Hitler's last orders was to destroy the public infrastructure of ''Germany'' since, in his SocialDarwinist mindset, Germany's defeat at the hands of Slavs and Anglo-Saxons showed the Germanic Race was clearly inferior to them and not worthy to be the Master Race after all. Albert Speer took on the responsibility for carrying it out, but didn't.
* Related to the above example is the thesis of the book Empire by Niall Ferguson, which argues that [[WinstonChurchill Churchill's]] entire strategy in [[WorldWar2 WWII]] was a kind of national self-sacrifice which involved exhausting the British Empire and probably causing its breakup, if only to deny the far more atrocious imperial powers of Japan and [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi Germany]] an ultimate victory. In short, [[YouShallNotPass 400 years of the British Empire was expended in a last great hurrah to destroy perhaps the greatest evil the world has ever known.]] The Realm Abides.
* There's little argument that the USA's infamous 'School Shootings' come under this trope, though ''why'' is not so well-understood - especially given that the phenomenon seems to be confined to their country, though that could just be because about half their population is armed (versus 15% or less for other economically-developed countries). One argument goes that they are usually committed by boys who have been bullied beyond the DespairEventHorizon and who see the whole of humankind as their enemies. In this school of thought shootings are not mere expanded suicides, but they are a similar reaction to a cornered rat who has no other escape but attacking anyone in the vicinity. On the other hand that argument portrays 'killing loads of innocent people' as the pitious and excusable action of a victim (as opposed to a cruel act of murderous insanity), so it's easy to see why it doesn't find much purchase outside the USA.
** Although the rate of school shootings in the USA is high, in fact they take place on every continent. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting School shootings that killed more than ten victims]] have taken place in Canada, Germany, the UK, Finland, Brazil and Azerbaijan.
* If the Sun dies in about 5 billion years, its transformation into a red giant will actually destroy a large portion of our Solar System.
* Several examples can be found in sports, one would be the final round of the [[TheBeautifulGame Danish Superliga]], where one of the matches were between Randers and Esbjerg in Randers, two teams struggling against relegation. Randers had originally said that they would not bring scores from other matches over the speakers, but when Lyngby got a 2-0 lead against Odense in the 80th minute (a result that meant Esbjerg were relegated for sure), Randers were leading 2-1 and the stadium speaker said what the score was in the other match. [[LaserGuidedKarma Tim Janssen, Dutch Esbjerg striker, scored in the 89th minute, relegating both teams]].
* SunTzu also talked this on the flip side of ToWinWithoutFighting. "If you're surrounded with no hope of victory, cut off your escape routes to encourage your men to fight to the death."
** Conversely, he advised against cutting off the opponent's line of retreat. If his only option is to fight, you have no idea what he might do when he starts losing.
*** Mongols were adept at exploiting this. In several battles (e.g. Battle of Sajo River), Mongols deliberately opened up what seemed to be a possible escape route for their enemies, only to have those escape routes turn into traps once their losing adversaries took to flight in disarray.
** Sun Tzu sought victory, not death. When confronted by superior opposition, moving to ground that offered no escape wasn't meant to invoke this trope. It was meant to make it clear to your subordinates there was no way out but through, making them absolute hellions in defense. If there is no retreat, rout is impossible, and the enemy encountering your own unbreakable troops might well panic.
* Even your own body cells exhibit this trope. Post-apoptosis, dying neutrophils can release their DNA and chromatin to entrap bacteria as a final attack to protect the body.
** Neutrophils are also full of enzymes and reactive compounds that damage both animal cells and bacteria. When killed, these enzymes can leak and non-specifically start tearing apart everything in the area. Additionally, leaked cellular communication molecules called cytokines can leak and lead to significant inflammation. This process creates a lined cavity called an abscess which is filled with liquified tissue and bacteria, aka pus.
** Any cell infected with a virus or which has lost control of its own reproduction (I.E. risks becoming part of a tumor) has a good chance to commit programmed cell death, or apoptosis, in order to cease being a virus/tumor factory. At other times, cells combine this with SuicideByCop, as they change their surface markers to mark themselves for destruction by the immune system (TheNeedsOfTheMany, of course). The mechanisms are quite complex.
* Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen was fired from Rabobank in 2007. Come 2013, he's taking his former team to court with a claim that the team shouldn't have fired him, because they knew exactly what he was doing and that he was doping.
** Furthermore, he's now working with several anti-doping organizations, telling them everything he knows.
* Had the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis escalated into general war and the US launched an invasion of Cuba, Fidel Castro stated in a 1992 interview that he would have recommended to the Soviet advisors the use of some 100 tactical warheads (that ''US intelligence did not know about'') against the invasion, knowing that doing so would result in the destruction of Cuba and the likely deaths of some 100 million civilians each in the US and Soviet Union from the massive nuclear exchange that would follow.
* [[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1006_051006_pythoneatsgator.html In 2005, a python ate an alligator and then exploded.]]
* A man found a mouse in his home and threw it out on his burn pile. The terrified [[ManOnFire flaming mouse]] survived long enough to run back inside the house [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4593682.stm and burn the entire thing to the ground]].
* The Flight 93 passengers [[HeroicSacrifice knew what they to do to save Washington, D.C. from a group of terrorists]], but they also had this response to the terrorists when the passengers attacked them. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck They knew it'll end badly]] but they didn't care because they were bringing the terrorists with them.
* A western spy in the Soviet Union nearly did this when, after being captured, he used his suicide capsule. Not only did the pill kill him, fumes from it nearly killed the doctors trying to save him.
* After cutting off a cobra's head to cook the rest of it, [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2732523/Chef-dies-spitting-cobra-cooking-bit-hand-20-minutes-cut-head-off.html a Chinese Chef gets bitten by the severed head and dies from the venom]].
* A child or teen facing punishment may claim others were involved in the hopes that said (real or imagined) conspirators too get punished.
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Chevalier_%28DD-451%29 USS Chevalier]] went out this way in WWII. Fatally damaged by a torpedo from the Japanese destroyer Yuugumo, the crew fired one last torpedo before abandoning ship, which struck Yuugumo and caused her to explode and sink.
* This is a theorized reason for why Andreas Lubitz crashed Germanwings Flight 9525. He had already been diagnosed with severe depression and had been deemed unfit to fly earlier, but for whatever reason, he hid this information from his employers. When his co-pilot left the cabin, he locked the door and set the plane into landing mode early, taking 149 other people with him.
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