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Last Wish Marriage
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Marriage is a big decision and one that normally shouldn't be entered into lightly because it will affect you for the rest of your life. However, long-term planning goes out the window when Your Days Are Numbered. Many people want to get married at some point (or experience sex and their morals demand marriage), and when you're terminally ill or headed off into a battle where your odds of survival are slim, it's now or never. A result of this is that the people in question may have never even considered marrying each other under any other circumstances, but instead are just two terminally ill patients who don't want to die alone or an otherwise platonic friend volunteering to marry the patient because they're not long for this world. Alternatively, the two could have been/still are High-School Sweethearts. If it's done really cheesy, it will end with a Last Kiss. See also True Love Is a Kink. On a more practical level, this may be to ensure that the widow/widower receives the pension, inheritance, insurance payout, death benefits, or even Kingdom of their deceased spouse, which can either be played as a benevolent gift from the dying or a cruel manipulation of someone too weak or delirious to properly voice objections. Very much Truth in Television. Subtrope of Altar the Speed. See also Metaphorical Marriage when the couple can't get married legally, but they have an unofficial wedding-like ceremony and consider themselves as good as married, and Wedding/Death Juxtaposition. |
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Kanon pulls this off with the end of Makoto's route as she declines in both health and intelligence. Though she indeed doesn't last much longer, the 2006 anime does hint that she may return next spring. | |
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On Scorpion, Sylvester marries Walter's terminally ill sister, Megan, to allow her to be able to die on her terms, rather than be kept alive on a breathing tube and other life-support means. | |
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Let's Get Divorced!: Han-gyeol offers to give Baek-hui a Citizenship Marriage because his unwell grandpa's last wish is to see him married. | |
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Cameron on House once married a man that had been diagnosed as terminally ill with thyroid cancer. He died six months after their wedding. | |
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In Love and Death, Sonya agrees to marry her nebbish cousin Boris because he's been challenged to a duel and fully expects that he'd be killed, and she figures that she can do him a simple kindness. She's a bit taken aback when he actually survives and she actually has to live with him. | |
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At the end of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Simon marries Nia just before she Goes Out With A Smile. | |
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In Manifest, Zeke's "death date" is fast approaching, so he and Michaela get married with just days to go. Complicating matters is Jared, who acts OK with it because he expects to reignite their relationship after Zeke dies. Zeke gets better. | |
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In Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, the protagonist is rushed through a marriage (to a woman he almost certainly intended to marry anyway) because the following day, he's going to do something potentially suicidal but necessary. | |
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Happens to the main character and his girlfriend in Deep Impact. Despite being very young teenagers, they want to (and are allowed to) get married due to the possibility that they might die soon anyway because of the meteor. | |
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On The Handmaid's Tale Gilead has the Colonies, camps where prisoners work themselves to death cleaning up toxic waste. Janine organizes a wedding for Kit (who is very weak and ill) and Fiona, who are in a relationship. It is their last moment of happiness before Kit dies. | |
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The Big Leap: Paula and Mike, since she knows she doesn't have much time left and the two are madly in love. It's a good thing too, since she only makes it a few weeks after the event before passing. | |
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In This Is The Army Johnny Jones marries his girlfriend before being sent overseas, which at the beginning of the film he's against doing. | |
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In Frozen (2013), Hans claims that he married Anna as she lay on her deathbed, thus making him King of Arendelle since the Queen, Anna's sister Elsa, had gone missing. | |
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In The African Queen, Rose Sayer and Charlie Allnut are captured during their attempted bombing of the German warship. The German captain asks if they have a Last Request before they're hanged, and they ask the captain to marry them. | |
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In The Shadow Rising, Perrin and Faile are married in Emond's Field as a demand from Faile to leave the village, which is due to be assaulted and overrun by Trollocs. She returns with The Cavalry, in the form of villagers from the neighboring villages that she recruited. | |
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Played with in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney. In case 2, Alita Tiala wants to marry Wocky Kitaki because she knew that his heart could stop at any time, and when that happened, Wocky's fortune would become hers. | |
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In the Wagons West book Nevada!, wanting to honor the wish of a "soiled dove" who was believed to be dying led to Toby's first marriage, althro the bride actually survived, causing issues after Toby came back from the war. | |
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In the Season 2 finale of Robin Hood, Robin and Marian start to say their wedding vows when they think they're going to die together, but are rescued before they can finish them. Near the end of the episode, they finish them as Marian is dying for real. In an earlier episode, "Walkabout", Guy of Gisborne repeatedly asks Marian to marry him so they can escape the forthcoming destruction of Nottingham (as a promise made to the Sheriff by Prince John that the entire city will be destroyed if the Sheriff should die an unnatural death has been triggered when the Sheriff goes missing, but Gisborne himself and his immediate family will be spared). Marian refuses because she cannot abandon the people of Nottingham, and eventually Gisborne decides to stay and die by her side. As the guards close in, he implores her to marry him now, as there is still time to "steal that from them, at least", although he is interrupted by the return of the Sheriff. |
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Independence Day: Just before Steven Hiller goes on his incredibly dangerous mission to implant the computer virus in the alien mothership, he finally marries his girlfriend. | |
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In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The End", Gumball and Darwin believe the world is going to end in a day, so Gumball tries to marry his crush, Penny, in the school hallway, apparently without even proposing first. She responds by pointing out the problem with this and the fact they're just twelve, but says she'd be open to him trying this again in like twenty years, which Gumball accepts... before he immediately proposes to the nearest girl after Penny walks off. | |
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In Forrest Gump, Jenny marries Forrest because she knows (or at least suspects) that she's dying. | |
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In In the King's Service, Lord Ahern de Corwyn is engaged to Zoë Morgan when he becomes ill from a ruptured bowel. The couple exchange wedding vows at Ahern's insistence (he refuses the Last Rites until this is done), and he dies about an hour later. | |
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In Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Matthew and Ingrid, convinced the world is going to end, want to get married. They were already boyfriend and girlfriend, but they hadn't been planning to marry quite so soon. It doesn't happen because the preacher is too busy hearing last-minute confessions. Unfortunately, it does happen later for the same couple after they're actually engaged. Ingrid is bitten by a rabid dog, and as her mind starts to slip from the ravages of the illness, she pleads with Matthew to marry her before it takes her from him completely. He does. |
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In V3 of the Legion of Super-Heroes comics, Shadow Lass married Mon-El when he was dying (and he died an issue later). In this case, Shadow Lass initiated the marriage. Whether this is still in continuity is uncertain. | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, during the final battle, Will proposes to Elizabeth. Knowing that there's a good chance they could die, Elizabeth asks Barbossa to perform the marriage ceremony right then and there (as he's a ship's captain and is legally able to do so), which he does - while sword-fighting with Davy Jones' minions the whole time. | |
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Attempted in Doctor Who. In the First Doctor serial The Aztecs, Susan is ordered to marry a man who is scheduled to be sacrificed. Naturally, she wants nothing to do with it. | |
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Little House on the Prairie anthology fic Harvest of Friends has Chapter 4, in which a dying Sylvia Webb is given a wedding in church and makes it to the kiss before starting to lose consciousness and succumb from the injuries sustained after falling while trying to escape her rapist rather than die in bed. | |
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In Cry, the Beloved Country, Absalom marries his pregnant girlfriend after he is sentenced to death. | |
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The Lois & Clark fic A Gift for Life has Clark getting Leukemia from Kryptonite exposure. He marries Lois...because she's agreed to have a baby for him, and even though actual sex will not be involved, he wants the child to be legitimate and have a "real" family. (The theme of the story is the controversy of conceiving a child to use as a donor). | |
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In When Darkness Falls Idalia accepts Jermayan's marriage proposal after she's already learned she must willingly sacrifice herself to foil the demons' plot. Shortly thereafter, however, she's reincarnated as the daughter of the elven king, and as Jermayan is an elf as well, a Jailbait Wait isn't a problem. | |
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On Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a supernatural apocalypse prompted Xander to finally propose to Anya, who was hurt because she thought he was only proposing for this reason, and he'd never have to go through with it. | |
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In Angel Beats!, Hinata proposes marriage to Yui to fulfill her final wish and allow her to move on from Purgatory. | |
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In an episode of Family Guy, Brian falls in love with an old woman. As she is in the hospital dying, he brings a virtual reality helmet for her to wear so she can see a long life married to him before she dies. Another episode of Family Guy, "Married... with Cancer", has Brian date Jess, a woman with cancer. Once her doctor announces that her cancer is terminal and she's due to die in days, she cries about the fact that she will never be able to get married, and Brian uses this opportunity to propose to her. Of course, Brian assumes that she's gonna die soon and he'll be able to use his selfless proposal to a dying girl as a way to impress future girlfriends. However, Jess's doctor announces that her cancer has gone into remission right after the wedding, and Brian is forced to live with a woman he never really wanted to stay with. |
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In Charmed, Cole and Phoebe got married in the face of their supernatural apocalypse, but after killing the Big Bad he Came Back Wrong and their relations were doomed. | |
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William and Daisy are married in Downton Abbey Series 2, with William on his deathbed after his war wounds. It is Played for Drama since Daisy doesn't love William (she only sees him as a good friend), but she is pushed to the marriage by the rest of the staff. Later it's revealed that William wanted to marry her also for the sake of his widowed father who had no family left, so he could have a nice daughter-in-law. | |
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