History Main / YouSeeImDying

* All the cyborgs in ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' due to their bodies being poisoned by the conditioning drugs, but Triela makes specific mention of it.

* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'': Izumi.

* The entire premise of ''Film/TheLivingWake''.

* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', with President Roslin.

* [[spoiler:Dhurke Sahdmadhi]] in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' says this before one of the trials. Being a mystery game though, there's a little more to it than it seems. [[spoiler:He isn't just dying, ''he's already dead''. The Dhurke we've known for the entirety of the case is actually Maya or Amara channeling his spirit (spirit channeling is real in the series; it's complicated). His spirit can't stay around for much longer, so he claims this trope because the real truth is even more painful.]]

* [[spoiler: Dhurke Sahdmahi]] in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' says before one of the trials. Being a mystery game though, there's a little more to it than it seems. [[spoiler: He isn't just dying, ''he's already dead''. The Dhurke we've known for the entirety of the case is actually Maya or Amara channeling his spirit. (Spirit Channeling is real in the series, it's complicated) His spirit can't stay around for much longer, so he claims this trope because the real truth is even more painful.]]

-->-- ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "Ties of Blood and Water"

* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'': Izumi.

* ‘’Film/TheMan1972’’: At the beginning of the movie, Vice President Calvin refuses to take the oath of office after the president dies in a construction accident. Calvin reminds the gathered politicians that he’s recently been ill and says that if they swear him in, then there will be another presidential funeral in two months time (although he could just mean the additional strain of the presidency would kill him faster).

* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'':

* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Lie to Me", Ford gives this speech to Buffy as his reason for wanting to become a vampire. The fact that, in doing so, he'll get Buffy, Buffy's friends, and a bunch of Idiot Bystanders killed is secondary to the fact that he doesn't want to die.
** [[spoiler: He gets to be an immortal vampire...and Buffy stakes him in the credits scene.]]

-->[[EthicalSlut "He had cancer, of course I slept with him."]]

** In "Ties of Blood and Water", a visiting Cardassian dissident, Tekeny Ghemor, comes aboard to visit Major Kira Nerys. After she tries to enlist his help in leading the movement against the Cardassian-Dominion joint alliance, he suddenly reveals that he has an as-yet-unheard-of ailment and that, you see, he's dying.
** An alternate-future Jake says this in "The Visitor". Subverted as he then explains that when anyone of advanced age says they are dying, they are simply admitting to the inevitable). [[spoiler: Double subverted when it turns out he really had injected himself a precisely timed poison, intending to die the next morning at exactly the right time to save his father in the past.]]
** Quark says this in the teaser of "Body Parts." Subverted when it turns out that he was misdiagnosed.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "Brothers", EvilTwin android Lore is about to walk out on his creator Dr Soong when the latter reveals that he is dying -- as Lore, for all his faults, does have emotions, this makes him stop.

* Due to the flawed core he was outfitted with, [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Mega Man's]] elder brother Blues/Proto Man is technically in a constant state of dying. Due to the instability of his nuclear core, nobody knows how or when it will finally explode or die out on him, but it's presumed inevitable.

* In ''VideoGame/Mafia3'' when players complete his loyalty missions, [[TheFightingIrish Thomas Burke]] will reveal that [[spoiler: that he has liver cancer and only has 6-8 months left.]] This can be subverted in his ending [[spoiler: where he uses the money to travel to Mexico and receive a liver transplant only to die in a gang fight in 1984]].

* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' oneshot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13622375/1/ For as Long as We Have]]'' has this as the reason why [[DisappearedDad Ash's father]] left him and Delia without a word. He discovered he had a terminal disease and feared that Ash would inherit it. Twenty years later, he comes back to clear his loose ends, since he's undergone treatment but is unsure how much time he has left.

It's the revelation, usually at the beginning of the movie or episode, where a character reveals the fact that he won't be around for much longer. [[TitleDrop You see, he's dying]]. Even better is when it's the lead-in to the opening credits, ending the teaser of an episode.