Suicide/Legends



Suicide was the deliberate termination of one's life by one's own hand. Sentient beings committed suicide for a number of reasons. It could be brought about by the mental status of a person or by extraneous circumstances, such as cultural demands or military directives.

Suicide teeth or poisonous pills were used by some military personnel to commit suicide and prevent capture by the enemy.

Examples

 * Rather than live with a crippling injury, Tusken Raiders would commit suicide when they lost a limb, or as the result of a wound, lost use of a limb.
 * Jagi committed suicide after deciding not to fight Canderous Ordo to the death.
 * Xanatos, a former Padawan of Qui-Gon Jinn, committed suicide in 44 BBY, preferring to jump into a pool of acid rather than facing capture by his former master.
 * Hunti Pereg, a bounty hunter, let a thermal pool set off his thermal detonators, rather than facing Granta Omega.
 * Hevy committed suicide by detonating two tanks of Tibanna so he could destroy Rishi Station to warn Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jedi General Anakin Skywalker about an upcoming Separatist Invasion on the planet of Kamino.
 * Around 22 BBY, a Death Watch terrorist, who bombed the memorial shrine in Sundari, let himself fall to his death from a high balcony rather than face capture by Obi-Wan Kenobi.
 * The Father on Mortis stabbed himself in order to weaken the Son, who had fallen to the dark side.
 * Following a misdirected raid against a suspected Jedi survivor and the earlier death of his squadmate Bry, IC-4447, known as Ennen, shot himself in the head with his sidearm.
 * Ko Sai committed suicide by hanging herself rather than help clone renegades reverse the clones' accelerated aging.
 * Gira, a Jedi Knight, ran himself through with his own lightsaber after being tricked into betraying the Padawans in his care by Darth Vader.
 * In the same year that the Battle of Yavin took place, Bria Tharen committed suicide by taking a poison pill rather than facing capture or execution at the hands of the Imperials that had surrounded her unit.
 * Moff Sarn Shild killed himself in 4 BBY.
 * Colby Hoff committed suicide by shooting himself in the head after Xizor ruined him.
 * Vergere committed suicide by piloting an A-wing starfighter straight into the heart of a Yuuzhan Vong base.
 * In 27 ABY, Borsk Fey'lya detonated a bomb on Coruscant, killing himself and over twenty-five thousand Yuuzhan Vong Warriors.
 * Viqi Shesh committed suicide during the Yuuzhan Vong War by jumping into Coruscant's canyons.
 * After witnessing the destruction of Supreme Overlord Shimrra Jamaane's vessel, Nas Choka gave permission for those Yuuzhan Vong who wished to commit suicide to do so. A large number of Yuuzhan Vong committed suicide, some by opening themselves with coufees, others by turning the ships they were flying into living missiles.
 * In 40 ABY, Cal Omas committed suicide by falling on Ben Skywalker's lightsaber to make the assassination attempt seem real.
 * In 43.5 ABY, former Galactic Alliance Chief of State Cha Niathal ran a line of carbon monoxide gas into an aquarium she had entered after refusing to be put on trial for dereliction of duty.
 * At fourteen, Danalis committed suicide in an airlock after realizing Captain Shrike would never live up to his promise to fix her vrelt-gnawed face.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Day of Reckoning
 * Jedi Quest: The Trail of the Jedi
 * Star Wars: Republic 10: Outlander, Part 4
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars 3: Slaves of the Republic - Chapter 3: The Depths of Zygerria
 * Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth
 * Imperial Commando: 501st
 * Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
 * Shadow Stalker
 * Death Star
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Shadows of the Empire novel
 * Vector Prime
 * Star by Star
 * The Unifying Force
 * Sacrifice
 * Fury
 * Backlash
 * Sacrifice
 * Fury
 * Backlash