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# Stop an actor

## PoisonPill Messages
A PoisonPill message has special handling for all actors, including for routers. When any actor receives a PoisonPill message, that actor will be stopped. See the PoisonPill documentation for details.

```scala
import akka.actor.PoisonPill
router ! PoisonPill
```

## Stop context
https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.5/scala/actors.html#stopping-actors

```scala
class MyActor extends Actor {

  val child: ActorRef = ???

  def receive = {
    case "interrupt-child" =>
      context stop child

    case "done" =>
      context stop self
  }

}
```