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** That is also the reason why often criminals who commit capital crimes rather shoot themselves (which is a rather quick and painless way to go) than face imprisonment, justice and execution as the result will be the same anyway.
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** That is also the reason why often criminals who commit capital crimes rather shoot themselves (which is a rather quick and painless way to go) than face imprisonment, justice and execution as the result will be the same anyway.

Edit 2: * In more of a political death, Richard Nixon decided (or had it decided for him, depending on how you look at it) to resign from the Presidency once it came out that he had explicitly told his associates to stonewall or cover up what they knew of Watergate.

This trope is about literal death. This might fit somewhere else.
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** There\'s also a popular fan theory that Foxface\'s death wasn\'t accidental and that she knew perfectly well that she was eating poisonous berries, choosing to commit suicide on her own terms rather than being killed in some brutal fashion by the other tributes or the gamemakers. The theory goes that she made it look like an accident so her loved ones wouldn\'t get into trouble.
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** There\\\'s also a popular fan theory that Foxface\\\'s death wasn\\\'t accidental and that she knew perfectly well that she was eating poisonous berries, choosing to commit suicide on her own terms rather than being killed in some brutal fashion by the other tributes or the gamemakers. The theory goes that she made it look like an accident so her loved ones wouldn\\\'t get into trouble.

Edit: Plonking this here on the basis it\\\'s too general for a wiki example.

* TruthInTelevision: often capture by especially vicious, vengeful, racistically or politically motivated foe or [[ForTheEvulz just spiteful]] foe will mean [[FateWorseThanDeath torture, rape, mutilation and/or utter humiliation.]] The cliche \\\'\\\'save the last bullet for yourself\\\'\\\' is often a TruthInTelevision.
** That is also the reason why often criminals who commit capital crimes rather shoot themselves (which is a rather quick and painless way to go) than face imprisonment, justice and execution as the result will be the same anyway.
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