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* UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire pulled their troops from Britain in [-AD-] 407, effectively abandoning it. For the next 40+ years, the remaining Roman and Romano-British citizens, as well as their British and Welsh clients, were mercilessly raided by the Celts and Picts of the northern reaches of Great Britain which were outside the nominal Roman province of Britannia. Some time around 450, give or take four years,[[note]]There's virtually no written record of this era for Great Britain. Dark Ages, indeed.[[/note]] the remaining Romano-British sent an appeal across the English Channel begging for a legion to return to save them from the raiding. This is termed the Groans of the Britons, and is believed to have been directed at the consul Aetius, who was known to be operating in Gaul and Hispania at the time. It ultimately fell on deaf ears, and the remaining Romans of Britannia were assimilated among the native Britonnic tribes (especially the modern Welsh) or folded into the soon-to-arrive arriving Anglo-Saxons.
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* UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire pulled their troops from Britain in [-AD-] 407, effectively abandoning it. For the next 40+ years, the remaining Roman and Romano-British citizens, as well as their British and Welsh clients, were mercilessly raided by the Celts and Picts of the northern reaches of Great Britain which were outside the nominal Roman province of Britannia. Some time around 450, give or take four years,[[note]]There's virtually no written record of this era for Great Britain. Dark Ages, indeed.[[/note]] the remaining Romano-British sent an appeal across the English Channel begging for a legion to return to save them from the raiding. This is termed the Groans of the Britons, and is believed to have been directed at the consul Aetius, who was known to be operating in Gaul and Hispaniola Hispania at the time. It ultimately fell on deaf ears, and the remaining Romans of Britannia were assimilated among the native Britonnic tribes or folded into the soon-to-arrive Anglo-Saxons.
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* UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire pulled their troops from Britain in [-AD-] 410, effectively abandoning it. For the next 40+ years, the remaining Roman and Romano-British citizens, as well as their British and Welsh clients, were mercilessly raided by the Celts and Picts of the northern reaches of Great Britain which were outside the nominal Roman province of Britannia. Some time around 450, give or take four years,[[note]]There's virtually no written record of this era for Great Britain. Dark Ages, indeed.[[/note]] the remaining Romano-British sent an appeal across the English Channel begging for a legion to return to save them from the raiding. This is termed the Groans of the Britons, and is believed to have been directed at the consul Aetius, who was known to be operating in Gaul and Hispaniola at the time. It ultimately fell on deaf ears, and the remaining Romans of Britannia were assimilated among the native Britonnic tribes or folded into the soon-to-arrive Anglo-Saxons.
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* UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire pulled their troops from Britain in [-AD-] 410, 407, effectively abandoning it. For the next 40+ years, the remaining Roman and Romano-British citizens, as well as their British and Welsh clients, were mercilessly raided by the Celts and Picts of the northern reaches of Great Britain which were outside the nominal Roman province of Britannia. Some time around 450, give or take four years,[[note]]There's virtually no written record of this era for Great Britain. Dark Ages, indeed.[[/note]] the remaining Romano-British sent an appeal across the English Channel begging for a legion to return to save them from the raiding. This is termed the Groans of the Britons, and is believed to have been directed at the consul Aetius, who was known to be operating in Gaul and Hispaniola at the time. It ultimately fell on deaf ears, and the remaining Romans of Britannia were assimilated among the native Britonnic tribes or folded into the soon-to-arrive Anglo-Saxons.
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* UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire pulled their troops from Britain in [-AD-] 410, effectively abandoning it. For the next 40+ years, the remaining Roman and Romano-British citizens, as well as their British and Welsh clients, were mercilessly raided by the Celts and Picts of the northern reaches of Great Britain which were outside the nominal Roman province of Britannia. Some time around 450, give or take four years,[[note]]There's virtually no written record of this era for Great Britain. Dark Ages, indeed.[[/note]] the remaining Romano-British sent an appeal across the English Channel begging for a legion to return to save them from the raiding. This is termed the Groans of the Britons, and is believed to have been directed at the consul Aetius, who was known to be operating in Gaul and Hispaniola at the time. It ultimately fell on deaf ears, and the remaining Romans of Britannia were assimilated among the native Britonnic tribes or folded into the soon-to-arrive Anglo-Saxons.
-->"The barbarians drive us to the sea, the sea drives us to the barbarians; between these two means of death, we are either killed or drowned."
-->"The barbarians drive us to the sea, the sea drives us to the barbarians; between these two means of death, we are either killed or drowned."
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* Kerry Von Erich, of the Wrestling/VonErichFamily, crossed the horizon late in his life. With four out of his five brothers dead (Kevin was the only one left), his father's health beginning to collapse, his career in shambles, his wife and children estranged from him, ''and'' facing prison time due to his drug habit, he lost all motivation to go on. In Bret Hart's memoirs, he mentions speaking to Kerry shortly before his death, and Kerry claiming that his brothers were calling for him to join them. Wrestling/BretHart tried to convince him that he needed to stay alive for his daughters, but although Kerry seemed to come around to it, Bret could tell it was only words. Not long after, Kerry committed suicide at the age of 33.
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* Mary Todd Lincoln led a hard life. She may have possibly had suffered from bipolar disorder, but regardless had passionate episodes that balanced out tending to Abraham Lincoln's fits of depression. She was First Lady amidst the US Civil War, and had Congressional investigations into her spending. She had already lost a son early in her life then had to live with losing a second son from typhoid fever while Lincoln was President. While she grieved, she still had to put up a good face in public, all the while seeing the toll the presidency and Civil War was having on her husband who appeared to age 10 years in 4. She then had to deal with the traumatic experience of being right next to her husband when he was assassinated. She finally crossed the DEH when her youngest son died from sickness. She was briefly institutionalized. While the public outcry to this led her to be quickly let out she never quite recovered from the despair.
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* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, when he realized that the Allies in the West and the Soviets in the East were closing in on him, and there was no chance for him to win because Felix Steiner was not able to muster up the forces to repel the Russians. He ordered his forces to fight to the last man and burn Germany to the ground to deny the Allies of anything. Hitler, knowing his work throughout his years was AllForNothing, eventually [[DrivenToSuicide committed]] [[AteHisGun suicide]].
** According to interviews with those in the Fuhrerbunker, when Hitler got the news that Himmler had defected to the Allied Powers, Hitler completely lost it and knew that the war was over. He was reportedly so deranged that all he desired was to at least capture and punish Himmler's very opportunistic adjutant and his brother-in-law, Hermann Fegelein.
** According to interviews with those in the Fuhrerbunker, when Hitler got the news that Himmler had defected to the Allied Powers, Hitler completely lost it and knew that the war was over. He was reportedly so deranged that all he desired was to at least capture and punish Himmler's very opportunistic adjutant and his brother-in-law, Hermann Fegelein.
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* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, when he realized that the Allies in the West and the Soviets in the East were closing in on him, and there was no chance for him to win because Felix Steiner was not able to muster up the forces to repel the Russians. He ordered his forces to fight to the last man and burn Germany to the ground to deny the Allies of anything. Hitler, knowing his work throughout his years was AllForNothing, eventually [[DrivenToSuicide committed]] committed [[AteHisGun suicide]].
**suicide]]. According to interviews with those in the Fuhrerbunker, when Hitler got the news that Himmler had defected to the Allied Powers, Hitler completely lost it and knew that the war was over. He was reportedly so deranged that all he desired was to at least capture and punish Himmler's very opportunistic adjutant and his brother-in-law, Hermann Fegelein.
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* UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, when his son Quentin died in UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne. His health, held together for most of his life solely by [[{{Determinator}} sheer unfettered]] ''willpower'', began failing almost immediately, and never recovered. His DeathByDespair followed less than a year later.
** He had already come close to this thirty years earlier when his wife and his mother died '''on the same day''': Valentine's Day 1884. He wrote in his diary "The light has gone out of my life." beneath a single black '''X'''.
** He had already come close to this thirty years earlier when his wife and his mother died '''on the same day''': Valentine's Day 1884. He wrote in his diary "The light has gone out of my life." beneath a single black '''X'''.
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* UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, when his son Quentin died in UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne. His health, held together for most of his life solely by [[{{Determinator}} sheer unfettered]] ''willpower'', began failing almost immediately, and never recovered. His DeathByDespair followed less than a year later.
**later. He had already come close to this thirty years earlier when his wife and his mother died '''on the same day''': Valentine's Day 1884. He wrote in his diary "The light has gone out of my life." beneath a single black '''X'''.
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** According to interviews with those in the Furhrerbunker, when Hitler got the news that Himmler had defected to the Allied Powers, Hitler completely lost it and knew that the war was over. He was reportedly so deranged that all he desired was to at least capture and punish Himmler's very opportunistic adjutant and his brother-in-law, Hermann Fegelein.
** According to interviews with those in the Furhrerbunker, when Hitler got the news that Himmler had defected to the Allied Powers, Hitler completely lost it and knew that the war was over. He was reportedly so deranged that all he desired was to at least capture and punish Himmler's very opportunistic adjutant and his brother-in-law, Hermann Fegelein.
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* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, when he realized that the Allies in the West and the Soviets in the East were closing in on him, and there was no chance for him to win because Felix Steiner was not able to muster up the forces to repel the Russians. He ordered his forces to fight to the last man and burn Germany to the ground to deny the Allies of anything. Hitler, knowing his work throughout his years was AllForNothing, eventually committed [[DrivenToSuicide committed]] [[AteHisGun suicide]].
** According to interviews with those in theFurhrerbunker, Fuhrerbunker, when Hitler got the news that Himmler had defected to the Allied Powers, Hitler completely lost it and knew that the war was over. He was reportedly so deranged that all he desired was to at least capture and punish Himmler's very opportunistic adjutant and his brother-in-law, Hermann Fegelein.Fegelein.
* UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, upon his first wife's death, [[BungledSuicide had his gun taken away from him at her funeral]] and proceeded to throw himself into her grave in a fit of despair.
-->'''Stalin''': [[MoralityPet This creature softened my heart of stone]]. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
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* UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, upon his first wife's death, [[BungledSuicide had his gun taken away from him at her funeral]] and proceeded to throw himself into her grave in a fit of despair.
-->'''Stalin''': [[MoralityPet This creature softened my heart of stone]]. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
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** He had already come close to this thirty years earlier when his wife and his mother died '''on the same day''': Valentine's Day 1884. He wrote in his diary "The light has gone out of my life."
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** He had already come close to this thirty years earlier when his wife and his mother died '''on the same day''': Valentine's Day 1884. He wrote in his diary "The light has gone out of my life."" beneath a single black '''X'''.
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* Music/ChesterBennington probably crossed it between massive criticism of his seventh album ''One More Light'' and the suicide of close friend [[Music/{{Soundgarden}} Chris Cornell]]. These along with his many prior traumas came to a boil when he angrily lashed out at fans who didn’t like the album, thereby losing what little respect he still had. That was the last step off the edge: he took his life on Chris’s birthday. Cue the [[HarsherInHindsight MASSIVE reassessment]] of his music.
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* Music/ChesterBennington [[Music/LinkinPark Chester Bennington]] probably crossed it between massive criticism of his seventh album ''One More Light'' and the suicide of close friend [[Music/{{Soundgarden}} Chris Cornell]]. These along with his many prior traumas came to a boil when he angrily lashed out at fans who didn’t like the album, thereby losing what little respect he still had. That was the last step off the edge: he took his life on Chris’s birthday. Cue the [[HarsherInHindsight MASSIVE reassessment]] of his music.
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* The consensus for King Henry VII after the death of his wife Elizabeth of York. He lived for six more years and was generally more melancholic, moody, and distrustful. He refused to get re-married and when he finally was open to the idea he blatantly wanted a copy of Elizabeth. It certainly did not help that months prior to Elizabeth's death his elder son and heir had died and a rival claimant escaped his clutches.
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* The Imperial Japanese military became increasingly desperate as the Allies began to draw the noose around the Home Islands. They recommended a LastStand on a national scale, and began training schoolchildren to fight with sticks, but when the Emperor supported the decision to surrender following the dropping of Little Boy and Fat Man on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many military officers chose ''[[DrivenToSuicide seppuku]]'' as an alternative, inclusive of those officers who tried to stop the Emperor's broadcast and continue fighting without his Majesty's approval only to be arrested.
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* The Imperial Japanese military became increasingly desperate as the Allies began to draw the noose around the Home Islands. They recommended a LastStand on a national scale, scale and began training schoolchildren to fight with sticks, but when the Emperor supported the decision to surrender following the dropping of Little Boy and Fat Man on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many military officers chose ''[[DrivenToSuicide seppuku]]'' as an alternative, inclusive of those officers who tried to stop the Emperor's broadcast and continue fighting without his Majesty's approval only to be arrested.
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* It's generally agreed upon that Wrestling/ChrisBenoit crossed this threshold after the death of his best friend Wrestling/EddieGuerrero. Benoit had a number of personal problems, such as drug abuse, injuries, mental illness, and a turbulent marriage, on top of all the other friends he had already lost, including Wrestling/OwenHart, Wrestling/BrianPillman, and Wrestling/BigBossMan. Eddie, however, was the breaking point; according to close friends and his own journals, Benoit never moved on from best friend's death. After that, it was just a downward spiral of self-destruction that eventually led to Benoit murdering his wife and son before committing suicide.
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* It's generally agreed upon that Wrestling/ChrisBenoit crossed this threshold after the death of his best friend Wrestling/EddieGuerrero. Benoit had a number of personal problems, such as drug abuse, injuries, mental illness, and a turbulent marriage, on top of all the other friends he had already lost, including Wrestling/OwenHart, Wrestling/BrianPillman, and Wrestling/BigBossMan. Eddie, however, was the breaking point; according to close friends and his own journals, Benoit never moved on from his best friend's death. After that, it was just a downward spiral of self-destruction that eventually led to Benoit murdering his wife and son before committing suicide.
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* Music/ChesterBennington probably crossed it between massive criticism of his seventh album ''One More Light'' and the death of close friend [[Music/{{Soundgarden}} Chris Cornell.]]. These along with his many prior traumas came to a boil when he angrily lashed out at fans who didn’t like the album, thereby losing what little respect he still had. That was the last step off the edge: he took his life on Chris’s birthday. Cue the [[HarsherInHindsight MASSIVE reassessment]] of his music.
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* Music/ChesterBennington probably crossed it between massive criticism of his seventh album ''One More Light'' and the death suicide of close friend [[Music/{{Soundgarden}} Chris Cornell.]].Cornell]]. These along with his many prior traumas came to a boil when he angrily lashed out at fans who didn’t like the album, thereby losing what little respect he still had. That was the last step off the edge: he took his life on Chris’s birthday. Cue the [[HarsherInHindsight MASSIVE reassessment]] of his music.
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* Among the "incel" ("involuntary celibate") subculture, this is known as "taking the black pill," by analogy with the "red pill" from ''Film/TheMatrix''. It's a misogynist belief that women are shallow and will only have sex with men with physically attractive traits, and that there's no hope for "unattractive" men.
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* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, when he realized that the Allies in the West and the Soviets in the East were closing in on him, and there was no chance for him to win because Steiner was not able to muster up the forces to repel the Russians. He ordered his forces to fight to the last man and burn Germany to the ground to deny the Allies of anything. Hitler knowing his work throughout his years were AllForNothing, eventually committed [[AteHisGun suicide]].
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* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, when he realized that the Allies in the West and the Soviets in the East were closing in on him, and there was no chance for him to win because Felix Steiner was not able to muster up the forces to repel the Russians. He ordered his forces to fight to the last man and burn Germany to the ground to deny the Allies of anything. Hitler knowing his work throughout his years were AllForNothing, eventually committed [[AteHisGun suicide]].
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* Music/ChesterBennington probably crossed it between massive criticism of his seventh album ''One More Light'' and the death of close friend [[Music/{{Soundgarden}} Chris Cornell.]]. These along with his many prior traumas came to a boil when he angrily lashed out at fans who didn’t like the album, thereby losing what little respect he still had. That was the last step off the edge: he took his life on Chris’s birthday. Cue the [[HarsherInHindsight MASSIVE reassessment]] of his music.
* [[Music/AliceInChains Layne Staley]] '''big-time''' after the death of his ex-fiancé from a drug overdose. He ended up retreating to his house and staying there virtually 24/7, for about ''six years'', so isolated that no one can say for sure what he was doing or thinking all that time. When he OD’d himself in April 2002, no one even found him for weeks. Interestingly, he was estimated to have died the same day Music/KurtCobain had eight years prior.
* [[Music/AliceInChains Layne Staley]] '''big-time''' after the death of his ex-fiancé from a drug overdose. He ended up retreating to his house and staying there virtually 24/7, for about ''six years'', so isolated that no one can say for sure what he was doing or thinking all that time. When he OD’d himself in April 2002, no one even found him for weeks. Interestingly, he was estimated to have died the same day Music/KurtCobain had eight years prior.
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* The Imperial Japanese military became increasingly desperate as the Allies began to draw the noose around the Home Islands. They recommended a LastStand on a national scale, and began training schoolchildren to fight with sticks, but when the Emperor supported the decision to surrender, surrender following the dropping of Little Boy and Fat Man on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many military officers chose ''[[DrivenToSuicide seppuku]]'' as an alternative, inclusive of those officers who tried to stop the Emperor's broadcast and continue fighting without his Majesty's approval only to be arrested.
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* Frank Butler crossed it following the death of Annie Oakley. After her death, he had her body burned and died of suicide by self-starvation within two and a half weeks or so. In the interim, Oakley's ashes were placed in one of her trophies, one of few relics she still retained from her sharpshooting career in her twilight years, and after Butler's death, his body and her ashes were buried together in Brock Cemetery.
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* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, when he realized that the Allies in the West and the Soviets in the East were closing in on him, and there was no chance for him to win, because Steiner was not able to muster up the forces to repel the Russians. He ordered his forces to fight to the last man and burn Germany to the ground to deny the Allies of anything. Hitler knowing his work throughout his years were AllForNothing, eventually committed [[AteHisGun suicide]].
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* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, when he realized that the Allies in the West and the Soviets in the East were closing in on him, and there was no chance for him to win, win because Steiner was not able to muster up the forces to repel the Russians. He ordered his forces to fight to the last man and burn Germany to the ground to deny the Allies of anything. Hitler knowing his work throughout his years were AllForNothing, eventually committed [[AteHisGun suicide]].
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** Historians speculate that the Battle of Gettysburg was the horizon for the Union, though it was ultimately not crossed. They had superior troop strength, economy and manufacturing over the Confederacy, but at that point public opinion was against the war and morale was extremely low. Conversely, the Confederacy had absolute faith in their leadership, as Lee had led them to victory after victory. It is thought that if the Union had lost that battle, it would have been the beginning of the end and the nation would have been forced to sue for peace.
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** Historians speculate that the Battle of Gettysburg was the horizon for the Union, though it was ultimately not crossed. They had superior troop strength, economy and manufacturing over the Confederacy, but at that point point, public opinion was against the war and morale was extremely low. Conversely, the Confederacy had absolute faith in their leadership, as Lee had led them to victory after victory. It is thought that if the Union had lost that battle, it would have been the beginning of the end and the nation would have been forced to sue for peace.
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* The first President of Brazil, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deodoro_da_Fonseca Deodoro da Fonseca]] suffered a biblical one after being impeached ([[EtTuBrute which he took very personally]]). To give some context, Deodoro was known as a BoisterousBruiser jokester and FunPersonified to his friends, described as "lion-hearted". But after his impeachment, Deodoro locked himself in his house and spent his days rotting away in a chair, smoking his already damaged lungs away. He forbid anyone in a military uniform to ever enter his house (keeping in mind he used to be a bona-fide, very patriotic war-hero). [[DeathByDespair He died less than six months later]].
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* The first President of Brazil, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deodoro_da_Fonseca Deodoro da Fonseca]] suffered a biblical one after being impeached ([[EtTuBrute which he took very personally]]). To give some context, Deodoro was known as a BoisterousBruiser jokester and FunPersonified to his friends, described as "lion-hearted". But after his impeachment, Deodoro locked himself in his house and spent his days rotting away in a chair, smoking his already damaged lungs away. He forbid anyone in a military uniform to ever enter his house (keeping in mind he used to be a bona-fide, bonafide, very patriotic war-hero). [[DeathByDespair He died less than six months later]].
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* This happens to many people who suffer from UsefulNotes/{{Depression}}.
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* It's generally agreed upon that Wrestling/ChrisBenoit crossed this threshold after the death of his [[HeterosexualLifePartners best friend]] Wrestling/EddieGuerrero. Benoit had a number of personal problems, such as drug abuse, injuries, mental illness, and a turbulent marriage, on top of all the other friends he had already lost, including Wrestling/OwenHart, Wrestling/BrianPillman, and Wrestling/BigBossMan. Eddie, however, was the breaking point; according to close friends and his own journals, Benoit never moved on from best friend's death. After that, it was just a downward spiral of self-destruction that eventually led to Benoit murdering his wife and son before committing suicide.
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* It's generally agreed upon that Wrestling/ChrisBenoit crossed this threshold after the death of his [[HeterosexualLifePartners best friend]] friend Wrestling/EddieGuerrero. Benoit had a number of personal problems, such as drug abuse, injuries, mental illness, and a turbulent marriage, on top of all the other friends he had already lost, including Wrestling/OwenHart, Wrestling/BrianPillman, and Wrestling/BigBossMan. Eddie, however, was the breaking point; according to close friends and his own journals, Benoit never moved on from best friend's death. After that, it was just a downward spiral of self-destruction that eventually led to Benoit murdering his wife and son before committing suicide.
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* UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, when his son Quentin died in UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne. His health, held together for most of his life solely by [[{{Determinator}} sheer unfettered]] ''[[CrazyAwesome willpower]]'', began failing almost immediately, and never recovered. His DeathByDespair followed less than a year later.
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* UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, when his son Quentin died in UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne. His health, held together for most of his life solely by [[{{Determinator}} sheer unfettered]] ''[[CrazyAwesome willpower]]'', ''willpower'', began failing almost immediately, and never recovered. His DeathByDespair followed less than a year later.
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* This happen to many people who suffer from UsefulNotes/{{Depression}}.
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* It's generally agreed upon that Wrestling/ChrisBenoit crossed this threshold after the death of his [[HeterosexualLifePartners best friend]] Wrestling/EddieGuerrero. Benoit had a number of personal problems, such as drug abuse, injuries, mental illness, and a turbulent marriage, on top of all the other friends he had already lost, including Wrestling/OwenHart, Wrestling/BrianPillman, and Wrestling/BigBossMan. Eddie, however, was the breaking point; according to close friends and his own journals, Benoit never moved on from best friend's death. After that, it was just a downward spiral of self-destruction that eventually led to Benoit murdering his wife and son before committing suicide.
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** When Hitler got the news that Himmler had defected to the Allied Powers, the bunker survivors say he completely lost hope and knew all was lost, and so deranged that all he desired was to at least capture and punish Himmler's very opportunistic adjutant and his brother-in-law named [[WebVideo/HitlerRants Hermann Fegelein]] '''[[MemeticMutation FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN, FEGELEIN!!!]]'''
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** When According to interviews with those in the Furhrerbunker, when Hitler got the news that Himmler had defected to the Allied Powers, the bunker survivors say he Hitler completely lost hope it and knew all that the war was lost, and over. He was reportedly so deranged that all he desired was to at least capture and punish Himmler's very opportunistic adjutant and his brother-in-law named [[WebVideo/HitlerRants brother-in-law, Hermann Fegelein]] '''[[MemeticMutation FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN, FEGELEIN!!!]]'''Fegelein.
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** He had already come close to this thirty years earlier when his wife and his mother died '''on the same day''': Valentine's Day 1884.
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** He had already come close to this thirty years earlier when his wife and his mother died '''on the same day''': Valentine's Day 1884. He wrote in his diary "The light has gone out of my life."
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* BillSimmons frequently discusses this regarding sports fans, as he has experience being from Boston (before all four teams became victorious in the 2000s, all had droughts made even more unbearable by disheartening defeats - even the post-Larry Bird Celtics). He wrote the "[[http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/071001 Levels of]] [[http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100722/mailbag2 Losing]]" regarding how bad a defeat can be, and also listed "[[http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100129&sportCat=nfl tortured teams]]" making it clear they have to go past the Despair Event Horizon to qualify:
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* BillSimmons Creator/BillSimmons frequently discusses this regarding sports fans, as he has experience being from Boston (before all four teams became victorious in the 2000s, all had droughts made even more unbearable by disheartening defeats - even the post-Larry Bird Celtics). He wrote the "[[http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/071001 Levels of]] [[http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100722/mailbag2 Losing]]" regarding how bad a defeat can be, and also listed "[[http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100129&sportCat=nfl tortured teams]]" making it clear they have to go past the Despair Event Horizon to qualify:
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* This is essentially what depression is (the feeling that there is no hope).
** Also why many people commit suicide or want to commit suicide.
** There are also several factors in one's life that can lead to depression, [[TraumaCongaLine especially if each factor is back to back]]. For example, someone gets laid off from their job, then they're unable to find a job due to the lousy economy, which is then followed by having items repossessed or even losing the house because they don't have any money to pay the bills, which in turn leads to them being forced to live in a homeless shelter while getting minimal food, which can also lead to the person getting ill and not being able to afford to get treated. All this can cause a person to simply give up on life and stop trying to find a way to better themselves or they may even resort to a life of crime seeing that they have nothing else to lose.
** Also why many people commit suicide or want to commit suicide.
** There are also several factors in one's life that can lead to depression, [[TraumaCongaLine especially if each factor is back to back]]. For example, someone gets laid off from their job, then they're unable to find a job due to the lousy economy, which is then followed by having items repossessed or even losing the house because they don't have any money to pay the bills, which in turn leads to them being forced to live in a homeless shelter while getting minimal food, which can also lead to the person getting ill and not being able to afford to get treated. All this can cause a person to simply give up on life and stop trying to find a way to better themselves or they may even resort to a life of crime seeing that they have nothing else to lose.
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* Sheer matter-of-fact everyday wisdom often helps to crack this. During the UsefulNotes/ColdWar era, many in the western hemisphere would face the horizon when discussing the sheer possibility of nuclear annihiliation. The answer came, in one instance, from the wife of a common farmer:
---> NO! We are not allowed to think like that!
** This sentence reads as a "snap out of it, we have work to do!" (and actually calling on the pre-christian philosophy of HeroicWillpower to make sense of things).
* People who commit mass shootings perceive this trope verbatim. While most kids don't have access to guns and only have suicide as a way out, those who do see the deaths of their tormentors as a bonus in the form of retribution before they themselves go out. No sense of basic security, unable to drop out of school until a certain age, many without an option to change schools, their real purpose of going to school in the first place nullified (unable to maintain grades for college, for one thing), too long to await what might not even be any better a future in college, no fulfillment to eke out, and even if life does get better, they still have to live for years on end with everything that happened to them. These people are beyond any influence of the law and ethics; prison would seem trivial, since they have little to lose in the first place, whatever rules they had abided by had failed them ''chronically'', few had helped them in any meaningful way, there was little they themselves could do to change anything peacefully, and in their minds, even "innocent" people deserve to die for doing so little about their situation.
---> NO! We are not allowed to think like that!
** This sentence reads as a "snap out of it, we have work to do!" (and actually calling on the pre-christian philosophy of HeroicWillpower to make sense of things).
* People who commit mass shootings perceive this trope verbatim. While most kids don't have access to guns and only have suicide as a way out, those who do see the deaths of their tormentors as a bonus in the form of retribution before they themselves go out. No sense of basic security, unable to drop out of school until a certain age, many without an option to change schools, their real purpose of going to school in the first place nullified (unable to maintain grades for college, for one thing), too long to await what might not even be any better a future in college, no fulfillment to eke out, and even if life does get better, they still have to live for years on end with everything that happened to them. These people are beyond any influence of the law and ethics; prison would seem trivial, since they have little to lose in the first place, whatever rules they had abided by had failed them ''chronically'', few had helped them in any meaningful way, there was little they themselves could do to change anything peacefully, and in their minds, even "innocent" people deserve to die for doing so little about their situation.
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---> NO! We are not allowed to think like that!
** This sentence reads as a "snap out of it, we have work to do!" (and actually calling on the pre-christian philosophy of HeroicWillpower to make sense of things).
* People who commit mass shootings perceive this trope verbatim. While most kids don't have access to guns and only have suicide as a way out, those who do see the deaths of their tormentors as a bonus in the form of retribution before they themselves go out. No sense of basic security, unable to drop out of school until a certain age, many without an option to change schools, their real purpose of going to school in the first place nullified (unable to maintain grades for college, for one thing), too long to await what might not even be any better a future in college, no fulfillment to eke out, and even if life does get better, they still have to live for years on end with everything that happened to them. These people are beyond any influence of the law and ethics; prison would seem trivial, since they have little to lose in the first place, whatever rules they had abided by had failed them ''chronically'', few had helped them in any meaningful way, there was little they themselves could do to change anything peacefully, and in their minds, even "innocent" people deserve to die for doing so little about their situation.
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* Historians speculate that the Battle of Gettysburg was the horizon for the Union in the UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, though it was ultimately not crossed. They had superior troop strength, economy and manufacturing over the Confederacy, but at that point public opinion was against the war and morale was extremely low. Conversely, the Confederacy had absolute faith in their leadership, as Lee had led them to victory after victory. It is thought that if the Union had lost that battle, it would have been the beginning of the end and the nation would have been forced to sue for peace.
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** Historians speculate that the Battle of Gettysburg was the horizon for theUnion in the UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, Union, though it was ultimately not crossed. They had superior troop strength, economy and manufacturing over the Confederacy, but at that point public opinion was against the war and morale was extremely low. Conversely, the Confederacy had absolute faith in their leadership, as Lee had led them to victory after victory. It is thought that if the Union had lost that battle, it would have been the beginning of the end and the nation would have been forced to sue for peace.
** Historians speculate that the Battle of Gettysburg was the horizon for the
