cop- out from what? Maybe they are done with life.
Ooh, I love you so much I prefer you and I both kill ourselves than to be with you one minute longer.
"That sounds like a homicide or something"
It is.
George and Shirley had champagne and lobster, and toasted to their life.
Pretty sorry life if they'd been contemplating death for 40 years. Poor lobsters. Why eat any living thing while you're planning your death. Horrid people. That's like tossing the pepperonis on the pizza you ordered in the garbage because you're vegetarian. Yes, know someone who does that.