diff --git a/src/main/java/org/duckdb/DuckDBConnection.java b/src/main/java/org/duckdb/DuckDBConnection.java
index 58dd2b84a..238f8f9f3 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/duckdb/DuckDBConnection.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/duckdb/DuckDBConnection.java
@@ -122,12 +122,6 @@ public void rollback() throws SQLException {
         }
     }
 
-    @Override
-    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
-    protected void finalize() throws Throwable {
-        close();
-    }
-
     public void close() throws SQLException {
         if (isClosed()) {
             return;
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/duckdb/DuckDBPreparedStatement.java b/src/main/java/org/duckdb/DuckDBPreparedStatement.java
index 10005951a..dc5e45330 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/duckdb/DuckDBPreparedStatement.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/duckdb/DuckDBPreparedStatement.java
@@ -411,12 +411,6 @@ public boolean isClosed() throws SQLException {
         return conn == null || conn.connRef == null;
     }
 
-    @Override
-    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
-    protected void finalize() throws Throwable {
-        close();
-    }
-
     @Override
     public int getMaxFieldSize() throws SQLException {
         checkOpen();
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/duckdb/DuckDBResultSet.java b/src/main/java/org/duckdb/DuckDBResultSet.java
index 6df384326..e4a5c849f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/duckdb/DuckDBResultSet.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/duckdb/DuckDBResultSet.java
@@ -110,12 +110,6 @@ public void close() throws SQLException {
         }
     }
 
-    @Override
-    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
-    protected void finalize() throws Throwable {
-        close();
-    }
-
     public boolean isClosed() throws SQLException {
         return resultRef == null;
     }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/duckdb/DuckDBSingleValueAppender.java b/src/main/java/org/duckdb/DuckDBSingleValueAppender.java
index 4cbf64b20..95b3b258d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/duckdb/DuckDBSingleValueAppender.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/duckdb/DuckDBSingleValueAppender.java
@@ -93,11 +93,6 @@ public void append(byte[] value) throws SQLException {
         }
     }
 
-    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
-    protected void finalize() throws Throwable {
-        close();
-    }
-
     public synchronized void close() throws SQLException {
         if (appender_ref != null) {
             DuckDBNative.duckdb_jdbc_appender_close(appender_ref);