The headline of an anti-government pamphlet inspires a character to do this after being locked in a room by F. Alexander and made ill by (*) classical music due to the Ludovico Technique.
A man says "I don't think two people could have been happier than we've been" before doing this action to avoid a party celebrating him winning the Carrouthers Prize in The Hours. That character was based on a man who does this action to avoid "human nature," personified by the approaching Dr. Holmes. The headline of an anti-government pamphlet inspires a character to do this after being locked in a room by F. Alexander and made ill by (*) classical music due to the Ludovico Technique. Alex is rehabilitated at the end of A Clockwork Orange after performing this act, which Septimus Smith does to kill himself in Mrs. Dalloway. For 10 points, a flip-book animation at the end of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close shows a man doing what action in reverse, in reference to people who performed it to escape the towers on 9/11?
A man says "I don't think two people could have been happier than we've been" before doing this action to avoid a party celebrating him winning the Carrouthers Prize in The Hours.
defenestration [prompt on “falling”; accept reasonable equivalents like “jumping out of a window” or “being thrown out of a window”; prompt on “suicide”]