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IN the musical, I do not believe that Javert directly asks to be killed. However, due to his belief that any person that breaks the law is a horrible person, he fiercely believes that Valjean wants to put an end to his life. Because of this Javert kinda rubs it in his face that he was right all along and Valjean is a bad person because he is going to do that.

In terms of the actual suicide, when Valjean refuses to kill Javert it overwhelms him because Valjean's act of mercy disproves the beliefs he has lived by for his whole life. The fact that everything he knows and has lived by is a lie drives him insane and causes him to no longer want his life.

I also believe (this bit is my personal opinion and not widely believed) that the realization of the cruelty he has shown to so many criminals he believed were horrible, irredeemable people broke his heart as he realized what a cruel and heartless man he, himself was and he believed he no longer deserved to live.

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