History BetterToDieThanBeKilled / FanWorks

* In the end of [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/109581/1/i-did-not-want-to-die/i-did-not-want-to-die I Did Not Want To Die]], the main character is already mortally wounded, but [[TakingYouWithMe he has one last grenade]].
* In ''FanFic/TiberiumWars'', it is a common belief among Nod soldiers and officers that their prisoners of war will be tortured and raped by GDI troops -- which leads to a Black Hand officer executing his own immobilized wounded to keep them from falling into enemy hands. GDI, meanwhile, views this as appalling and as a fanatical enemy denying them intelligence sources.
* In the "Brotherhood of Shadow" ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' Mod, a Czerka mining chief does this when his crew suddenly go animalistic and berserk due to an insane Jedi trying to lure your new party member out of hiding.
* In the ''Franchise/GIJoe'' / ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator'' crossover fic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6397285/1/Corazones_y_Cazadores Corazones y Cazadores]], the Joe team thinks Beachhead has chosen this when he's attacked by a facehugger and grabs for his handgun. Subverted, as he's actually shooting it off.
* In the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' and ''Manga/DeathNote'' crossover ''FanFic/LittleBlackDeathNote'' Raito is well aware he's playing a dangerous game and considers that in the unlikely event that the wizards figure out what he's up to he might just get one of his Shinigami to write his own name in the notebook rather than hang around and wait for the many nasty [[FateWorseThanDeath Fates Worse Than Death]] the wizards would inflict on him.
* In the ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' fanfic ''FanFic/AHistoryOfMagic'', Cleopatra chose to crush her own Soul Gem rather than wait for Augustus's troops to kill her or for her to become a witch. Many years later, Sarah attempted to do this, but the Jewish laws saying suicides don't get to heaven kept her from going through with it. [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]] had to MercyKill her.
* In ''Fanfic/QueenOfAllOni'', it's eventually shown that this is how Tarakudo's mortal life (before becoming an Oni) ended — surrounded by his enemies in war and deciding they didn't deserve the honor of taking his life, he stabbed himself.
* In the ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' fanfic ''Victory at Ostagar'', the Empress of Orlais takes poison rather than be dragged to a FateWorseThanDeath by the darkspawn invading Val Royeaux.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/EarthAndSky'', [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Warrior Race Griffon]] Baron Redtail is trapped in a burning prison, and tries to convince his lackey Gunther to kill him rather than wait for the fire to kill them. Fortunately, he's rescued by the other prisoners.
* In the [[TearJerker infamous]] ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fic Gutters, Denmark saves two bullets specifically for this reason.
* ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'': Based on ''The Count of Monte Cristo''. Interestingly, given its alternation in SympatheticPOV from the novel, Fernand has a more admirable death, choosing to save his son's life and redeem himself through a HeroicSacrifice, rather than shooting himself after his sordid past is exposed.
* Some stories in ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureau'' subgenre have this with the humans who refuse to be converted. ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum'', being a DeconstructionFic bordering on DeconstructorFleet, has several instances of this. The hero, Marcus, tries to slash his throat when he thinks he's about to be ponified only for Canon!Twilight to successfully stop him. It's also revealed that the Japanese Prime Minister and Queen Elizabeth II chose to kill themselves than be converted (in the latter's case, pull a TakingYouWithMe by blowing herself up in Balmoral Castle with her assailants inside). The Europe and Asia side stories also have the main characters promising each other that they would shoot the other if they got hit with the ponification potion so they can [[DyingAsYourself die as themselves]].

* ''Fanfic/PaganVengeance'': Without an army left to defend itself, the citizens of [[spoiler:Palanga]] commit mass suicide before the army at their gates. Juvage and his troops are so baffled at this they start treating the survivors and leave the city untouched with a big pile of plunder contributed from each man. This is also the point where Juvage starts questioning himself, since they didn't even need to take out the city.
* In ''Fanfic/TheWrongReflection'' Dal Kanril Eleya of the MirrorUniverse Cardassian Guard keeps a SuicidePill in a false back molar for use in the event of capture by Terran Empire forces.
-->"Despite my brave face to Damar, I know what the Terrans do to female prisoners."
* At the start of ''Fanfic/{{ARTICLE 2}}'', Major Shane Doran has just woken up and is confusedly trying to escape Canterlot Castle. When he sees himself totally surrounded by what he presumes are hostiles with no hope of escaping, he puts his pistol to his chin. [[InterruptedSuicide Luna manages to neutralize him before he can fire]].
* Similarly, in ''Fanfic/{{Misunderstandings}}'', early on Peter finds himself in [[FreakOut a magic-addled sense of fight-or-flight]], running from ponies in Canterlot. At a point, he ends up in a back alley, with [[TheDreaded Princess Celestia]] standing in his way. He figures he's screwed anyway, so he might as well have the final defiance of choosing how he wants to die, so he puts his handgun to his temple and fires... except the gun jams. Later on, this episode leads ponies to have hushed conversations about his mental stability and humans' behavior, and Peter gets so disturbed at how easily he could go suicidal, he hands the pistol over to Sveti, the only living being he trusts and is able to use it[[labelnote:*]]she's a griffon, who unlike ponies, have fingers[[/labelnote]] by that point.
* In "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/639483/1/The-Scarab The Scarab]]"- a crossover with ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''Series/StargateSG1''- a System Lord 'rescued' Larry from the explosion on graduation, but brainwashed Larry to be his First Prime and then had him sired by a vampire before putting him in a sarcophagus. So long as Larry goes into a sarcophagus every couple of days, he remains human, but when Xander and Teal'c break his conditioning, Larry chooses to remain behind to set off the bomb to destroy the Goa'uld's underground base, as they cannot retrieve the sarcophagus and he doesn't want to risk waking up as a vampire and killing his family in the future.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' fanfic ''Stirred'' (the sequel to ''Fanfic/{{Ripples}}''), Caleb makes it clear in his internal narration that he'd take this route if facing the possibility of being captured by either of [[CoDragons Phobos' Hands]], due to their [[BloodKnight various]] [[PlayingWithSyringes reputations]] among the rebels.
* The ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' fic ''[[Fanfic/WorldsApartBuffy Worlds Apart]]'' offers a non-fatal example of this; rather than the Council firing Wesley for incompetence, here he willingly resigns from the Council because he can no longer tolerate working for people who would consider himself and Buffy just as much traitors to their calling as Faith when their only 'crime' is not killing Angel.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' blog ''Blog/AskPinkaminaDianePie'', [[spoiler:Scootaloo's]] abusive father hanged himself rather than let Pinkamina torture him.
* In ''Fanfic/SummerCrowns'', Felian Gaelyr, the leader of the [[LaResistance Ashen Men]], burns down her hiding place and slits her wrists rather than be taken prisoner by the [[SecretPolice Second Sons]].
* Supposedly Sirius's reason for blowing himself up in ''Fanfic/TheParselmouthOfGryffindor''. Of course, he's actually FakingTheDead.
* In ''Fanfic/ChaosTheory'', when Archer starts getting devoured by The Shadow, he kills himself with Rule Breaker, both so he doesn't rise again as a Blackened Servant, and so he can die as [[DyingAsYourself Shirou Emiya, not Archer]].
* Used [[NonLethalKO non-lethally]] in the ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' fic ''Fanfic/HerFracturedSpirit''. During a Turf War, [=rvMatt1=] jumps off the tower instead of letting herself be splatted by an opponent.
* In the ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'' fic ''FanFic/WorldOfTheDead'', the group comes across a family of three, dead by gunshot; Takashi speculates that they either decided to take the easy way out rather than be devoured by [[NotUsingTheZWord Them]], or the father went crazy and [[MurderSuicide killed his wife and kid before turning the gun on himself]].
* Corpsemaker from ‘’Fanfic/VanillaSabotageBadEnd’’, a {{Fanverse}} of the ''{{Literature/Steelheart}}'' inspired roleplay, ‘’Roleplay/WhatHappenedInOregon’’, poisons his own coffee rather than be [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] to death by Darkrose and Alastair.
* ''FanFic/TheWeaverOption'':

* In the ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'' fic ''FanFic/WorldOfTheDead'', the group comes across a family of three, dead by gunshot; Takashi speculates that they either decided to take the easy way out rather than be devoured by [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Them]], or the father went crazy and [[MurderSuicide killed his wife and kid before turning the gun on himself]].

* In the Franchise/{{Danganronpa}} fanfic, ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9342428/chapters/21167366 Ordinary Days]]'', after realizing that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Junko's use for them has run out]] and that she had only ever planned for them to die via her suicide video, the class, lead by Kaito and Ryoma, decide that if Junko wants them dead either way, they are going out swinging.

* When faced with [[CruelAndUnusualDeath execution]] in ''Fanfic/AnotherSideSportingHopefuls'', [[spoiler:Yasuhiro]] downs a lethal combination of brandy and pills.

* Used [[NonLethalKO non-lethally]] in the ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' fic ''Fanfic/HerFracturedSpirit''. During a Turf War, [=rvMatt1=] jumps off the tower instead of letting herself be splatted by an opponent.

* In the [[TearJerker infamous]] ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' fic Gutters, Denmark saves two bullets specifically for this reason.

* Used non-lethally in the ''Splatoon'' fic ''Fanfic/HerFracturedSpirit''. During a Turf War, [=rvMatt1=] jumps off the tower instead of letting herself be splatted by an opponent.

* The ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' fic ''Fanfic/WorldsApartBuffy'' offers a non-fatal example of this; rather than the Council firing Wesley for incompetence, here he willingly resigns from the Council because he can no longer tolerate working for people who would consider himself and Buffy just as much traitors to their calling as Faith when their only 'crime' is not killing Angel.

* Corpsemaker from ‘’Fanfic/VanillaSabotageBadEnd’’, a {{Fanverse}} of the ‘’Literature/Steelheart’’ inspired roleplay, ‘’Roleplay/WhatHappenedInOregon’’, poisons his own coffee rather than be [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] to death by Darkrose and Alastair.

* CorpseMaker from ‘’Fanfic/VanillaSabotageBadEnd’’, a {{Fanverse}} of the ‘’Literature/Steelheart’’ inspired roleplay, ‘’Roleplay/WhatHappenedInOregon’’

* In the ''Franchise/GIJoe'' / ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator'' crossover fic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6397285/1/Corazones_y_Cazadores Corazones y Cazadores]], the Joe team thinks Beachhead has chosen this when he's attacked by a facehugger and grabs for his handgun.