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1	->''"You choose death! Wise. But first, a little chi-chi!"''
2	-->-- '''Really old joke'''
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4	An index for tropes dealing with suicide.
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6	[[index]]
7	!!Tropes about suicide:
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9	'''UsefulNotes:'''
10	+ {{UsefulNotes/Suicide}}
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12	'''Sub-categories:'''
13	+ MurderBySuicide
14	]
15	* AccidentalSuicide: Killing yourself unintentionally.
16	* ActionBomb: Someone who blows themselves up, often killing themselves in the process.
17	* AteHisGun: Someone commits suicide by firing a gun after putting it in their mouth.
18	* AttackingThroughYourself: The only way to harm an enemy is by harming yourself (such as shooting yourself so that the bullet passes through your body into theirs).
19	* BarefootSuicide: Someone kills themselves while barefoot.
20	* BathSuicide: Someone commits suicide in the bathtub.
21	* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: A character commits suicide rather than fall into the hands of someone trying to kill them.
22	* BulliedIntoDepression: Bullying can possibly lead someone to commit suicide.
23	* BungledSuicide: A (failed) suicide attempt.
24	* CutTheSafetyRope: Two characters are in peril. One character chooses to die so that the second can be saved.
25	* CyanidePill: A means of suicide carried on one's person in the event one is captured.
26	* DeathBeforeDishonor: A character commits suicide rather than do something immoral or against their moral code.
27	* DeathIsTheOnlyOption: The only way to achieve victory is to die.
28	* DeathSeeker: A suicidal character seeks out dangerous situations without regard for their survival.
29	* DressingToDie: The character picks out a special outfit before killing himself.
30	* DrivenToSuicide: A bad event leads a character into committing suicide.
31	* DyingAsYourself: A character trapped in circumstances that will permanently alter their basic personality, humanity, or dignity may choose to kill themselves before the transformation is complete.
32	* ElectrifiedBathtub: If the death by active electronics being dropped into the tub while bathing was deliberately done by the person bathing.
33	* FaceDeathWithDignity: A doomed character accepts their death with serenity.
34	* FakeAssistedSuicide: A character assists another character in killing themselves only to sabotage the attempt.
35	* ForgivenessRequiresDeath: In order to be forgiven of their crimes, the character must die.
36	* GayngstInducedSuicide: A character commits suicide because of issues around their homosexuality.
37	* GoingDownWithTheShip: The commander of a vessel chooses to remain on said vessel as it is destroyed.
38	* GoodbyeCruelWorld: A character leaves a goodbye note before committing suicide.
39	* HangingAround: A character commits suicide by hanging themselves.
40	* HappilyFailedSuicide: A character fails a suicide attempt, but is happy about it.
41	* HereditarySuicide: Suicide and/or suicide attempts run in families.
42	* HeroicSacrifice: Sacrificing your own life for the greater good.
43	* HeroicSuicide: Killing oneself is regarded as a heroic act in the story.
44	* HonorableWarriorsDeath: A warrior attempts to die in battle or by using some method considered worthy of a warrior in their culture.
45	* ICannotSelfTerminate: A character is literally unable to end their own existence.
46	* ImNotHungry: If someone refuses to eat food to the point that they let themselves starve to death. This has been the fate of some political protesters who went on hunger strikes.
47	* InterruptedSuicide: A character's suicide attempt is interrupted.
48	* IndirectSerialKiller: Some serial killers kill people by making them commit suicide.
49	* JumpingOnAGrenade: Sacrificing oneself by using one's own body as a shield against a deadly threat in hopes of sparing others
50	* KryptoniteRing: A character gives another character a special deadly weapon.
51	* LastSurvivorSuicide: Someone kills themselves over being upset that they're the last one left alive.
52	* LeaveBehindAPistol: Giving the option of suicide before dishonor.
53	* MainCharacterFinalBoss: The main character finally snaps and becomes the final boss, leading to the party ending their life.
54	* MercyKill: If a suicidal person begs another person to put them out of their misery.
55	* MercyKillArrangement: A character plans their own euthanization.
56	* MidSuicideRegret: A character decides they want to live in the middle of a suicide attempt.
57	* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: A character determines they will kill themselves once a list of tasks is complete.
58	* MistakenForSuicidal: A character is thought to be suicidal when they're really not.
59	* MoreExpendableThanYou: A group of people have to sacrifice one of themselves. Everyone else volunteers because they don't want one member to die.
60	* MurderSuicide: Someone kills another person before killing themselves.
61	* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: A character deliberately kills themselves in order to start an even more lethal chain of events.
62	* NeverSuicide: A murder victim is covered up by making it look like a suicide.
63	* NothingLeftToDoButDie: Someone kills themselves out of boredom and/or satisfaction, believing they've accomplished or done everything they want and have nothing left to live for.
64	* OrderedToDie: Ordered to kill themselves by someone with authority.
65	* PainlessDeathForAPrice: Someone on death's doorstep is offered a MercyKill in exchange for something valuable.
66	* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: Character permits another character to kill them.
67	* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Using mind control to make a person kill themselves.
68	* PreludeToSuicide: A character exhibits signs of being suicidal before they attempt.
69	* RussianRoulette: You pull the trigger on yourself, and there is a one-in-six chance that you die.
70	* SeenItAllSuicide: Someone kills themselves after concluding they've seen everything they ever could.
71	* SelfImmolation: Lighting oneself on fire as a means of suicide. Sometimes done as an extreme form of political protest.
72	* SelfSacrificeScheme: A plan by a character to sacrifice their life for someone or something else.
73	* {{Seppuku}}: Ritualized suicide to avoid disgrace.
74	* SpitefulSuicide: A character kills themselves/gets themselves killed to spite someone else.
75	* SpurnedIntoSuicide: A character kills themselves because they were rejected by a love interest.
76	* StartsWithASuicide: When a show starts with a character committing suicide.
77	* StopOrIShootMyself: Threatening suicide in order to end a conflict.
78	* StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred: You provoke your enemy to kill you.
79	* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: A character decides to kill themselves and everyone else.
80	* SuicidalGotcha: An apparent suicide turns out to be a preplanned form of escape.
81	* SuicidalLemmings: Lemmings off themselves by way of jumping off of cliffs.
82	* SuicidalSadisticChoice: A SadisticChoice where one option is death.
83	* SuicideAsComedy: When suicide is {{Played for\|Laughs}} BlackComedy.
84	* SuicideAttack: An attack on an enemy that will almost certainly lead to one's own demise.
85	* SuicideByAssassin: Hiring someone to kill you.
86	* SuicideByCop: You provoke someone into killing you.
87	* SuicideByPills: A character intentionally overdosing on medication in pill form to kill themself.
88	* SuicideBySea: Committing suicide by calmly and deliberately walking into a body of water and drowning.
89	* SuicideBySunlight: A vampire (or another supernatural creature) can be [[WeakenedByTheLight destroyed by stepping into sunlight]], and does so voluntarily.
90	* SuicideDare: Telling someone to kill themselves.
91	* SuicideForOthersHappiness: A character wants to take their own life because they believes that other people will be happier if they were dead.
92	* SuicideIsPainless: A suicide method that doesn't inflict any pain.
93	* SuicideIsShameful: Suicide is seen as morally detestable.
94	* SuicideNotAccident: A character arranges their suicide to look like an accident or its mistaken for an accident.
95	* SuicideNotMurder: A character arranges their suicide to look like a murder or its mistaken for a murder.
96	* SuicidePact: A group of characters agree to commit suicide.
97	* SuicideWatch: A person is monitored to prevent them from killing themselves.
98	* SymbolicSereneSubmersion: A character is revealed to have drowned themself by a shot of their body floating in the water.
99	* TagTeamSuicide: A character commits suicide under the mistaken belief that their loved one is dead. The loved one learns of the character's death and kills themselves for real.
100	* TakingTheBullet: A character deliberately places themselves in front of a lethal threat intended for someone else.
101	* TakingYouWithMe: A person who gets killed makes it so that their killer dies with them.
102	* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: A character tells someone not to kill themselves.
103	* TeenageDeathSongs (a subcategory of it): Songs about the tragic death of a young person (sometimes by suicide), often meant as a cautionary tale.
104	* TemporalSuicide: Killing your past or future self.
105	* TongueSuicide: A character bites off their tongue to commit suicide.
106	* WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture: Society has progressed ([[CrapsackWorld or devolved]]) to the point of allowing its citizens to kill themselves without intervening. May also be a society in which social engineering has determined that all citizens must die at a specific age/circumstance (with or without the consent or knowledge of the citizens) to maintain stability.
107	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: If an {{immortal\|ity}} being grows so sick of eternal life that [[DeathSeeker they just want it to end already]].
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109	!!Metaphorically about suicide:
110	* MartyrdomCulture: A society that encourages people to die for a purpose.
111	* ResurrectionGambit: A character plans their own death, with contingencies that should, in theory, result in their resurrection.
112	* SuicidalOverconfidence: Video game enemies rush in to attack the player character, despite the fact that they are clearly hopelessly outmatched.
113	* SuicidalPacifism: A character believes so strongly in pacifism that they refuse to harm others even in self-defense.
114	* SuicideMission: A mission will almost certainly end in death for whoever accepts it.
115	[[/index]]

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