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This is a DeathTrope, so beware unmarked spoilers.

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This is a DeathTrope, {{Death Trope|s}}, so beware unmarked spoilers.







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* One [=TAC=] public information film from Christmastime 1996 had a married father of two drive drunk and suffer a serious brain injury. After a few days in a coma, the doctors inform his family that he's brain-dead and must be removed from the machines.

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* One [=TAC=] [[Advertising/TransportAccidentCommission TAC]] public information film from Christmastime 1996 had a married father of two drive drunk and suffer a serious brain injury. After a few days in a coma, the doctors inform his family that he's brain-dead and must be removed from the machines.
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'''Frasier:''' Dad, when are you going to stop blighting the environment with this atrocity? My God, can't you see that it wants to die? Let it go.\\

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-> '''Frasier:''' Dad, when are you going to stop blighting the environment with this atrocity? My God, can't you see that it wants to die? Let it go.\\
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'''Frasier:''' Dad, when are you going to stop blighting the environment with this atrocity? My God, can't you see that it wants to die? Let it go.\\
'''Martin:''' You know, I keep havin' this dream where you say the same words... only I'm in the hospital and you're slipping the nurse a twenty.\\
'''Frasier:''' Dad that will never happen. I have medical power of attorney, it won't cost me a thing.
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* In ''Series/Numb3rs'' story ''Fanfic/DonEppes'': After being shot while protecting several children, Don is taken off life support after flatlining twenty minutes prior and is kept alive long enough for his friends and family to say goodbye.

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* ''Fanfic/BeautifulMonster'': Chas makes the difficult decision of taking Chuckie off life support after waiting in vain for months for him to wake up from his seizure-induced coma.
* In the ''Series/Numb3rs'' story fanfic ''Fanfic/DonEppes'': After being shot while protecting several children, Don is taken off life support after flatlining twenty minutes prior and is kept alive long enough for his friends and family to say goodbye.
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* John Arcudi's run on ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' establishes partway through that Dorothy Spinner became comatose after she went through a meltdown over facing life without the Doom Patrol and ended up killing her fellow teammate Kate Godwin/Coagula. At the end of the run, Robotman can't bear to see Dorothy waste away, so he asks that her life support be unplugged.
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* In ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', Scarlett is shot by the Baroness and ends up in a coma. Several issues later, her sister Siobhan announces she's filed a court order to have Scarlett taken off life support. After she does so (which actually invokes speech in [[TheVoiceless Snake-Eyes]]), Scarlett makes a miraculous recovery with no apparent loss of mental function...after Storm Shadow has gotten Snake-Eyes to take a dangerous assignment to distract him.
* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'': One of the most dramatic moments of the post-Creator/AlanMoore run is Issue #84, where Abby finally finds the courage to take [[spoiler:her husband Matt]] off life-support; [[spoiler:Matt's]] soul goes on to become Dream's pet raven in ''ComicBook/TheSandman''.

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* In ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel'', Scarlett is shot by the Baroness and ends up in a coma. Several issues later, her sister Siobhan announces she's filed a court order to have Scarlett taken off life support. After she does so (which actually invokes speech in [[TheVoiceless Snake-Eyes]]), Scarlett makes a miraculous recovery with no apparent loss of mental function... after Storm Shadow has gotten Snake-Eyes to take a dangerous assignment to distract him.
* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'': One of the most dramatic moments of the post-Creator/AlanMoore run is Issue issue #84, where in which Abby finally finds the courage to take [[spoiler:her husband Matt]] off life-support; [[spoiler:Matt's]] [[spoiler:Matt]]'s soul goes on to become Dream's pet raven in ''ComicBook/TheSandman''.''ComicBook/TheSandman1989''.
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When a character is unlikely to come out of a coma or recover from fatal injuries, making them an EmptyShell, they are taken off the ventilator or a feeding tube. While it is usually done for reasons of no hope, there are times it is taken off for petty reasons, like to get insurance money or [[InheritanceMurder inheritance]], or the patient is hated by the person that takes the life support off. It can also be used as [[SickbedSlaying sitting-duck assassination]].

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When a character is unlikely to come out of a coma or recover from fatal injuries, making them an EmptyShell, they are taken off the ventilator or a feeding tube. While it is usually done for reasons of no hope, there are times it is taken off for petty reasons, like to get insurance money or [[InheritanceMurder inheritance]], or the patient is hated by the person that takes the life support off. It can also be used as [[SickbedSlaying sitting-duck assassination]].
assassination]]. In some cases, the patient may actually ''survive'' and come back around, which serves as another ideal source of drama when they happen to find out that their loved ones were about to let them die.
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* ''Film/NotEasilyBroken'': Throughout the film, Julie's son Bryson is training for a huge swim meet. He won, but in his drive to win, he ultimately swam too hard, collides with a knot in the pool wall and suffers a traumatic brain injury. He is soon taken off of life-support ''[[CriticalResearchFailure against]]'' [[CriticalResearchFailure his mother's wishes.]][[note]]This can't be done without a court proceeding first; until then, she would still have the final say[[/note]]

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* ''Film/NotEasilyBroken'': Throughout the film, Julie's son Bryson is training for a huge swim meet. He won, but in his drive to win, he ultimately swam too hard, collides with a knot in the pool wall and suffers a traumatic brain injury. He is soon taken off of life-support ''[[CriticalResearchFailure against]]'' [[CriticalResearchFailure ''against'' his mother's wishes.]][[note]]This [[note]]This can't be done without a court proceeding first; until then, she would still have the final say[[/note]]
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* Another, more recent internet meme takes the box illustration for the board game Connect 4 and rewords it as the following:
-->DISCONNECT LIFE SUPPORT
-->"I'm ready son!"

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