Wonderful stuff deirdyweirdy, you so live up to your name.

Two things pop into my head on reading that.

Morrissey- To die by your side and the movie Thelma and Louise - Rather than be captured and spend the rest of their lives in jail, Thelma proposes that they "keep going". Louise asks Thelma if she is certain, and Thelma says yes. They kiss, then Louise steps on the accelerator, and they ride the car over the cliff to their deaths.