History Main / SuicidePact

* In 1889, the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Crown Prince Rudolph and his mistress baroness Mary Vetsera were both found dead in an imperial hunting lodge in Mayerling.

This is a DeathTrope, so expect '''UNMARKED SPOILERS!'''

->''"A murder suicide is all about trust."''
-->-- ''Series/TheXFiles,'' "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas."

* The second episode of ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' features one of these made over the internet, though unbeknownst to poor [[spoiler: Rio Kamichika]] it's really [[{{Troll}} Izaya]] setting her up ForTheLulz. Yeah, Izaya is an asshole.
** In the manga he does the same, except he meets two girls at a karaoke bar -- And then drugs their drinks and insinuates that he's going to murder them and stuff their corpses into suitcases as they're succumbing to the effects of the drug. He wasn't actually planning to kill them (he had Celty deliver the unconscious girls to their homes afterwards), but it was an incredibly dick move nonetheless.

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* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''. In "Lay Down Your Burdens" when the Cylons have them pinned down, Kara and Anders agree to kill each other rather than be captured, and be sent to the Cylon breeding farms (which Kara had already experienced). Athena unfortunately doesn't have this option; as she'd simply be resurrected as a Cylon. Fortunately the Cylon forces withdraw instead.
* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. In "Volcano", a race of {{Actual Pacifist}}s have set up a DoomsdayDevice which they threaten to use to destroy their planet if any hostile force attempts a landing. Unfortunately Servalan decides to call their bluff and launches an attack. It's not a bluff.

* On one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU,'' it turns out a victim wasn't a victim at all, she was attempting suicide when the maids came in early. She later manages to kill herself for real, and the team seems desperate to arrest ''[[ThereShouldBeALaw someone]]'' for it. It turns out she frequented a site that encouraged suicidal people to take the plunge, run by a true believer played by Creator/MarleeMatlin. Matlin's character got the woman to commit suicide by telling her they'd do it together, which she had no intention of fulfilling, leading the team to prosecute her under "Murder by fake suicide pact."

* The ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' episode, "Childhood's End" has the team find a village of kids and young adults who have agreed to kill themselves upon hitting age 25 in a perceived effort to keep The Wraith from "harvesting" the community. The team learns this is needless as the Wraith were kept because of a powering dampening field which was running out of power soon and the sacrifices were thought necessary in the beginning to accommodate the field's limits and they eventually convince the villagers to stop this practice.
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "Croatoan" (Season 2) Dean enters this with Sam when he refuses to kill or abandon his brother despite the fact that Sam has been exposed to the Croatoan virus. Defused by the fact that Sam turns out to be immune to the demonic virus.
* A suicide pact (rather, a murder/suicide pact) is what drives the season 6 Christmas episode of ''Series/TheXFiles''. Two ghosts who were victims of a murder/suicide pact try to get Mulder and Scully to re-enact it in a HauntedHouse on Christmas Eve. It almost works.

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