<p>Robots contemplate their mortality in this week's Concept Art Writing Prompt. Let's hear your best tales of robots considering the ends of their existencewhether they decide to end it all or not.</p><p>"The Rope," is just one painting in Eric Joyner's massive series of tin robot art (and one of the few that doesn't feature doughnuts, although your story can certainly include them), via This Week in Creepy Robots. As always, we invite you to come up with a story based on this piece and post it in the comments.</p><p>Here's my story:</p><p>Detective Zeta-Five flicked on a digital cigarette, holding it against his mouth as he studied the scene. A rope hung limply in the middle of the room, the body laid out between its now empty noose.</p><p><a href="http://io9.com/5968730/concept-art-writing-prompt-a-robot-suicide">Keep reading...</a></p>