Suicide Suicide was the act of killing of one ' s self . Many robot s , such as K9 and the Pain - Maker , were built with a self - destruct function . This usually resulted in an explosion . ( TV : " Regeneration " , " Robot Gladiators " , " Hound of the Korven " ) Cyborg s such as Dalek s could also self - destruct . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " , " Dalek " , " Asylum of the Daleks " , COMIC : " Extermination of the Daleks " ) In 1580 , the Saturnyn calling herself Rosanna Calvierri committed suicide after the Eleventh Doctor defeated her plan to save her people . ( TV : " The Vampires of Venice " ) In 1851 , Thomas Brewster ' s mother committed suicide by throwing herself into the River Thames . ( AUDIO : " The Haunting of Thomas Brewster " ) In 1856 of an alternate timeline , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head , but survived and his wounds healed almost instantly due to having been granted immortality . ( AUDIO : " My Own Private Wolfgang " ) In 1870 , Kahler - Jex committed suicide in order to prevent Kahler - Tek from killing any more people or races who would get caught in the crossfire of Tek ' s hunt for Jex if Jex were to escape to another world . ( TV : " A Town Called Mercy " ) In 1898 , Gordon Seavers committed suicide after Richard Harries blackmailed him . ( PROSE : " The Banquo Legacy " ) In an alternative timeline in 1930 , Edith Thompson committed suicide because Charley Pollard died in the crash of the R101 . This created a paradox , as Charley had not died , but had been saved by the Eighth Doctor . The paradox was resolved when the Doctor talked Edith out of suicide . ( AUDIO : " The Chimes of Midnight " ) In 1938 , after being relentlessly chased by Weeping Angel s determined to imprison him in Winter Quay for the rest of his life to feed off his time energy , Rory Williams decided to commit suicide by jumping off the building in order to create a temporal paradox and kill the Angels . His wife Amy Pond joined him and the plan worked : all but one Weeping Angel were killed and the negating of the alternate timeline restored them to life in a 2012 New York City graveyard . ( TV : " The Angels Take Manhattan " ) After being implicated in a plot to remove Adolf Hitler , Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide to save his family . ( COMIC : " The Instruments of War " ) On 30 April 1945 , Hitler committed suicide at the end of World War II rather than face capture or defeat . ( PROSE : " The Shadow in the Glass " ) In the 1950s , Alan Turing committed suicide after being hounded out of academia by Professor Jeffrey Broderick . ( AUDIO : " Artificial Intelligence " ) In November 1963 , at the end of the Shoreditch Incident , the Supreme Dalek self - destruct ed when the Seventh Doctor revealed that Skaro was destroyed . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) In March 1965 , Lady Catherine Waverly seemingly committed suicide due to her guilt over murdering her husband Commodore Charles Waverly less than a week earlier . ( AUDIO : " Manhunt " ) In 1977 , unable to move after looking into the eyes of the Fendahl core , Maximillian Stael committed suicide in the cellars of Fetch Priory rather than be transformed into Fendahleen . The Fourth Doctor passed him a gun from the nearby altar to assist him in this . ( TV : " Image of the Fendahl " ) On 31 December 1999 , Alex Hopkins committed suicide after killing the rest of the Torchwood Three team , having used the psychic locket to see a vision of the 21st century . ( TV : " Fragments " ) Evelyn Smythe received a suicide letter from her student Sally . She had the Sixth Doctor take her back in time to prevent this . ( AUDIO : " Doctor Who and the Pirates " ) On 30 March 2006 , Agatha Ellis committed suicide . ( PROSE : " Curtain Call " ) In 2007 , Suzie Costello committed suicide after her crimes were exposed . ( TV : " Everything Changes " ) Later that year , John Ellis committed suicide after being displaced from 1953 and learning that his family was gone . ( TV : " Out of Time " ) Following his wife ' s death , Robert Pugh considered suicide on multiple occasions , including with a razor in the shower and by taking pills . ( AUDIO : " More Than This " ) A Donna Noble from a parallel world committed suicide by walking in front of a lorry to create a traffic jam that would force her past self to reconsider the decision that would led to the death of the Tenth Doctor in the parallel world . ( TV : " Turn Left " ) In 2009 , Owen Harper attempted suicide by drowning after the resurrection gauntlet was used to bring him back , reducing him to a zombie - like state . He later talked Maggie Hopley out of her attempt to suicide . ( TV : " A Day in the Death " ) In the wake of the Dalek invasion of Earth later that year , suicide rates rose , the evidence for the existence of alien s leading to crises of faith . ( TV : " " ) John Frobisher committed suicide after killing his wife and children to spare themselves from the 456 . ( TV : " " ) After Miracle Day , in which people on Earth ceased to die , suicide became impossible , but some people became ' inventive ' , finding ways to get as close to death as possible . For example , the 45 Club believed that jumping from 45 floors up or higher was the only guaranteed way to lose consciousness forever . ( TV : " The Middle Men " ) In 2012 , a Dalek , which , after the Last Great Time War , the Ninth Doctor believed to be the last of its kind at the time , self - destructed when it was mutated by human DNA from Rose Tyler . ( TV : " Dalek " ) Etoine , a Zygon who had been posing as a human , committed suicide after his alien nature was exposed . ( TV : " The Zygon Inversion " ) In 2017 , a virtual reality world created by the Monks contained the " Veritas " , a text that led people to commit suicide by making them realise they weren ' t real . ( TV : " Extremis " ) In 2059 , Adelaide Brooke committed suicide to restore the timeline after the Tenth Doctor altered it to save the crew of Bowie Base One . ( TV : " The Waters of Mars " ) In the 22nd century , a group of Daleks on Earth initiated self - destruct ion after the Tenth Doctor used a proton cannon to make them intangible . ( COMIC : " Extermination of the Daleks " ) On Világ , Dr Andrew Szabó committed suicide after confessing his crimes . ( AUDIO : " Thicker Than Water " ) On Midnight , a " Crusader 50 " hostess sacrificed herself to save her passengers from the Midnight entity by throwing herself and the entity ' s host out the shuttle bus doors onto the surface of Midnight , exposing them both to the extreme X - tonic radiation outside . ( TV : " Midnight " ) Terrin and Alyst Blakely committed suicide by ejecting themselves out of the airlock of their ship to keep the information they had on the Cradle of the Gods safe from the Daleks . They were later recreated by the Cradle and the mind of their daughter Jenibeth . ( PROSE : " The Dalek Generation " ) In the 42nd century , Kath McDonnell committed suicide by jumping out of the airlock of the SS " Pentallian " , dragging her possessed husband with her , in order to save the ship ' s crew from the revenge - seeking , sentient Torajii star . ( TV : " 42 " ) In an unknown time , on the Dalek Asylum , a Dalek committed suicide in order to try to kill the Doctor as its weapons were disabled . The Doctor reversed the Dalek into a number of its own kind and it killed them instead in the blast . Later , Oswin Oswald effectively committed suicide after learning of her conversion into a Dalek by lowering the Asylum ' s force field so the Parliament of the Daleks could destroy it and then not leaving while the Asylum was destroyed . ( TV : " Asylum of the Daleks " ) In the far future , Xana committed suicide to avoid being arrested and tried for her crimes . Three thousand years later , her lover Kane committed suicide after the Seventh Doctor revealed that his home planet Proamon had been destroyed in a supernova , leaving no one on whom he could take his revenge . ( TV : " Dragonfire " ) In the far future , Cordo attempted suicide because he could not afford to pay the Company ' s tax es , but was stopped by the Fourth Doctor and Leela . ( TV : " The Sun Makers " ) At the end of the universe , the inhabitants of the Institute of Time committed suicide after seeing what the universe had come to . ( PROSE : " The End " ) In a parallel universe , the Second Doctor committed suicide by jumping off a pylon to escape the Time Lord s , causing him to regenerate into a female incarnation . ( AUDIO : " Exile " ) Within the Shadow World , the inhabitants would kill themselves if they learned it was a simulation , typically after reading the " Veritas " . ( TV : " Extremis " )