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* Music/TheMechanisms song "Elysian Fields," final part of the "Ulysses Dies At Dawn" concept album, is all about the titular death of Ulysses. They lie down in the fields of the last untouched wilderness in the world, their faithful hound at their side, in the same spot where they buries their lover Penelope years before. After being haunted by memories of the terrible things they've done, Ulysses dies content and free.

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* In ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentAvengers'', [[ComicBook/CaptainAmericaSamWilson Sam Wilson]] expresses his concern that [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/Thor2014 Jane Foster]] only became Thor so she can die this way]] and while he won't out who they were, he's not going to let them throw their life away for this sort of death.
* Bruce Wayne's hunt for a worthy death is a recurrent theme in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''. ("This would be a good death... but not good enough.") After all the things he's been up against, a battle with a ''weird'' Neo-Nazi wearing swastikas as pasties and firing guns makes him think, "This... would be a '''stupid''' death." In the end, [[spoiler:he gets over the desire. "This will be a good life. Good enough."]]



* Lampshaded in ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' by Gruagach, who remarks that, if fairykind is truly destined to go extinct, it's better to go out in a blaze of glory than to just slowly die out. Of course, the problem is that his definition of "blaze of glory" is "wiping out humanity."



* In ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentAvengers'', [[ComicBook/CaptainAmericaSamWilson Sam Wilson]] expresses his concern that [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/Thor2014 Jane Foster]] only became Thor so she can die this way]] and while he won't out who they were, he's not going to let them throw their life away for this sort of death.
* Bruce Wayne's hunt for a worthy death is a recurrent theme in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''. ("This would be a good death... but not good enough.") After all the things he's been up against, a battle with a ''weird'' Neo-Nazi wearing swastikas as pasties and firing guns makes him think, "This... would be a '''stupid''' death." In the end, [[spoiler:he gets over the desire. "This will be a good life. Good enough."]]
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* NotHowImDyingDeclaration: A character states that there is no way they're going to die to a proposed threat, real or hypothetical
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* Sergey Volkov in ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'' considers his loss to Jack Atlas this. Moved by Jack's dedication to his Scarlight Red Dragon Archfiend, Sergey actively lets himself fall off of the racecourse, bidding Jack farewell.
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* At the end of ''Anime/CodeGeass'', [[TheChessmaster Lelouch vi Britannia]] orders his friend [[DeathSeeker Suzaku Kururugi]] to kill him in his staged public execution of his former allies, the [[LaResistance Black Knights]]. This is after having become [[TheEmperor Emperor of Britannia]] and [[ZeroApprovalGambit posed as a heartless tyrant to unite the world's hatred against him]], [[ThanatosGambit so that he can break the constant cycle of animosity through his death]]. He does it by having Suzaku dress as his alter ego -- Zero, the leader of the Black Knights -- and stage a rescue in which Zero kills Lelouch and saves the Black Knights. His plan succeeds, and not only does he free the false death mates and the entire world from his rule, but he also lifts his own emotional burden as the "villain", knowing he has accomplished what he had to do. He even dies in the company of his beloved sister Nunnally, the person whom he'd begun his conquest for in the first place.

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* At the end of ''Anime/CodeGeass'', [[TheChessmaster [[Characters/CodeGeassLelouchLamperouge Lelouch vi Britannia]] orders his friend [[DeathSeeker Suzaku Kururugi]] to kill him in his staged public execution of his former allies, the [[LaResistance Black Knights]]. This is after having become [[TheEmperor Emperor of Britannia]] and [[ZeroApprovalGambit posed as a heartless tyrant to unite the world's hatred against him]], [[ThanatosGambit so that he can break the constant cycle of animosity through his death]]. He does it by having Suzaku dress as his alter ego -- Zero, the leader of the Black Knights -- and stage a rescue in which Zero kills Lelouch and saves the Black Knights. His plan succeeds, and not only does he free the false death mates and the entire world from his rule, but he also lifts his own emotional burden as the "villain", knowing he has accomplished what he had to do. He even dies in the company of his beloved sister Nunnally, the person whom he'd begun his conquest for in the first place.
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* In ''Film/TheCrow'', after being done with his RoaringRampageOfRevenge, Eric Draven lies against his tombstone dying, but right before death, he is visited by his lover Shelly's spirit, and he dies fully content that both his revenge is done and that he's reunited with his lost love.

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* In ''Film/TheCrow'', ''Film/TheCrow1994'', after being done with his RoaringRampageOfRevenge, Eric Draven lies against his tombstone dying, but right before death, he is visited by his lover Shelly's spirit, and he dies fully content that both his revenge is done and that he's reunited with his lost love.
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* ''Necromerger'': PlayedForLaughs. The Cultist is the only living thing in your lair that actually considers being EatenAlive by [[LovecraftianLite The Devourer]] as this. If you feed another living thing (who obviously ''don't'' think it's this) to The Devourer while the Cultist is in the lair, they might get jealous and if ''they're'' the ones getting potentially dragged to their doom, they consider it a great honor.

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* ''Necromerger'': PlayedForLaughs. The Cultist is the only living thing in your lair that actually considers being EatenAlive by [[LovecraftianLite [[LovecraftLite The Devourer]] as this. If you feed another living thing (who obviously ''don't'' think it's this) to The Devourer while the Cultist is in the lair, they might get jealous and if ''they're'' the ones getting potentially dragged to their doom, they consider it a great honor.
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* ''Necromerger'': PlayedForLaughs. The Cultist is the only living thing in your lair that actually considers being EatenAlive by [[LovecraftianLite The Devourer]] as this. If you feed another living thing (who obviously ''don't'' think it's this) to The Devourer while the Cultist is in the lair, they might get jealous and if ''they're'' the ones getting potentially dragged to their doom, they consider it a great honor.
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* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]in ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'' as one of the central theme of the story. The actions taken by the protagonist, Yuji Itadori, during the first chapter of the manga led to the Jujutsu Society to pronounce his death sentence by chapter 2. Considered a dead man pending from then on, he aims to make his death a meaningful one.

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* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]in Discussed]] in ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'' as one of the central theme of the story. The actions taken by the protagonist, Yuji Itadori, during the first chapter of the manga led to the Jujutsu Society to pronounce his death sentence by chapter 2. Considered a dead man pending from then on, he aims to make his death a meaningful one.

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