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Author: XFllo

Jun 8th 2013 at 12:39:34 AM

DrivenToSuicide is decidedly different. That is suicide by choice, either from feeling hopeless and seeing no other solution, or mental health problems like severe depression, bipolar disorder etc.

PsychicAssistedSuicide is close to this trope (ForcedSuicide), but it is not the same. However, and we should not list examples of that here. Personally I would move ''Series/TheXFiles'' example -- I think it's already listed there.

I think this should focus on cases when it's used as a thread or what is actually a murder.

Examples of what I think fits this YKTTW, and not to other suicide tropes.

[[AC:Literature]]
* In ''Literature/QuoVadis'', a Roman nobleman Petronius is ordered to commit suicide by Emperor Nero. It's clear that if he doesn't do it, he can expect a FateWorseThanDeath. Petronius cuts his wrists and dies in a warm bath of water, which is supposed to be relatively painless. His beautiful slave and lover voluntarily joins him to invoke TogetherInDeath.

[[AC:Television]]
* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': Serial Killer "Trinity" from season 4 kept killing people in cycles. His second victim of each cycle was a mother of two who was forced to jump to her death. He threatened them that he would do unspeakably horrible things to their family members had they not jumped.