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Like You Were Dying

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Like You Were Dying	comment	A character knows that the end is nigh. They're usually sick but sometimes doomed in another way. As a result, the character is left in either anger or despair. But then, they meet someone: a character who's equally doomed, The Anti-Nihilist, a Love Interest or a happy innocent child. This person's attitude can be summed up with: "Yep, dying sucks, but life is fun anyway." Then, brought together by their understanding of what the other is suffering, they form a close bond. Usually no one gets healed, but before the movie or the character's end, the second character's attitude has rubbed off on the first one. Sometimes a character recovers or the diagnosis was wrong in the first place, then they decide to still make the most of their considerably elongated lifespan. Sometimes the roles are reversed, and it's the dying person's winning attitude that rubs off on some loser that doesn't know how to live. The basic lesson is the same, though. Compare with The Last Dance and Must Not Die a Virgin. Not to be confused with Like You Would Really Do It.
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Like You Were Dying / int_1153f710	comment	In The Gungan Council, Kirk lives vicariously all the time due to having just a few more years to live.
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Like You Were Dying / int_127e455d	comment	In the French film The Brand New Testament, the daughter of God gets back at her curmudgeonly, antagonistic father by texting everyone on Earth, letting them know how long they will live down to the last second (It Makes Sense in Context). Pretty much everybody who gets put on short time (the folks who only have a few days, or even a few months to live) takes this trope to heart and starts living their lives the way they'd always been afraid to, because why not, right? Interestingly enough, the same thing happens at the opposite end of the spectrum. One man, in his 20s already, is informed he still has almost 120 years to live; as a result, he loses all sense of caution. Not only is he perfectly willing to live life to the fullest and try every new thing, he becomes a professional daredevil, armed with the knowledge that no matter how crazy his stunts, some lucky break will keep him alive and kicking for the next 120 years.
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Like You Were Dying / int_14aab8d5	comment	Joe Versus the Volcano has this as its plot. Joe has a decidedly mediocre life, with a mediocre job, but even his mediocrity is ruined by his massive hypochondria. When he is told that he really is dying, from a "brain fog" that has no detectable symptoms until it ultimately proves fatal, an eccentric millionaire offers to give him an all-expenses-paid trip to a tropical Pacific island where he will then sacrifice himself in a volcano in accordance with native tradition to secure the millionaire the mining rights for the island. At the end, it is revealed that he never had a "brain fog", and his doctor was on the payroll of the millionaire looking for a schlub who he could trick into leaping into a volcano.
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Like You Were Dying / int_1817c4d8	comment	A Walk to Remember: Landon Carter is a delinquent boy who gets into trouble when he meets Jamie Sullivan, who helps change him for the better. Once he falls in love with her, he learns that she has leukemia. He gives her everything she asks for in their short life together before she dies.
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Like You Were Dying / int_1afaadc2	comment	A "couples" example from RENT: Angel and Collins are the "live like you're dying" couple who get Roger to open up a little. Mimi, who is Roger's love interest, finishes the job despite a considerably rocky start with him.
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Like You Were Dying / int_2275c659	comment	House: Subverted in an episode in which Wilson finds out that he had earlier misdiagnosed a patient with terminal cancer. When telling the man that he is in fact perfectly healthy, he is surprised to find the man is outraged: knowing that he was going to die within six months had given the man real happiness for the first time in his life. He then promises to sue Wilson for malpractice. Made funnier when House gives the man the name of a good lawyer. Played straight in a different episode. A young girl with terminal cancer who has an astonishing bravery and dedication to enjoying the little time she has left. Despite his best efforts at misanthropy, the girl's zest for life rubs off on House and he ends up buying a motorcycle. The series' last shot is of House and a terminally ill Wilson going touring on motorcycles.
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Like You Were Dying / int_24c33f13	comment	Harold and Maude: An Emo Teen who attends funerals and commits mock-suicide for fun gets into a relationship with a 79-year-old woman who is basically the septuagenarian equivalent of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. She kills herself for real in the end, but he still stops faking his suicides and starts actually living life.
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Like You Were Dying / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons, of course, has mocked this a few times, most notably with Homer believing that he would die after eating an improperly prepared poisonous fish. In another episode, Homer reads a self-help book that advises him to "Live each day like it was your last". Cut to Homer sitting on the curb sobbing "I don't want to die!"
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Like You Were Dying / int_2b74dabc	comment	Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: Said friend, Penny, has this effect on Dodge while the world ends.
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Like You Were Dying / int_3138dd1	comment	Bug Martini: Examined by Bug, who shows that you need to plan your spending wisely while doing this.
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Like You Were Dying / int_36242f53	comment	In "One Day Left to Live" by Sammy Kershaw, the singer barely avoids a fatal accident, and decides that from then on, he will live like he's got one day left to live.
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Like You Were Dying / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs: In an episode made to parody sitcom cliches, one patient is found to only have 24 hours to live, and is taken out by the doctors to go through a list of adventures before he died. Then, at the end of the day, they find out that his chart has been switched with another patient, so he's not going to die, and the patient who is terminal is antisemitic, so no one cares about him. Subverted in that this turns out to be a dream sequence in JD's head, none of the above adventures actually happened, and the patient dies. The moral of the episode ends up being "sometimes bad things happen to good people, which is why it's a good thing we have sitcoms to cheer us up". A separate episode has a subplot almost exactly identical to the House example above.
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Like You Were Dying / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes: In an arc where Calvin believes the world is ending because the weather's getting colder (it's really just fall), Calvin says he's prepared because he's always believed in living every day as though it were his last. He then goes to his room to slack off, eat junk food, and read comic books, Hobbes pointing out that this would've sounded more inspiring if Calvin were somebody else.
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Like You Were Dying / int_43576f5	comment	During the third season of Supernatural, Dean knows that he's going to die, as at the end of season two, he sells his soul to a demon to save Sam's life, and ends up with a year to live. So, he spends most of the season living it up whenever and however he can... at least until he gets a taste of what will happen to him when he dies, at which point he fights like Hell to survive. He dies anyway. He gets better.
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Like You Were Dying / int_4b790c7a	comment	In Iron Man 2, when confronted with his poisoning and seemingly imminent death, Tony asks Natasha Romanoff what she would do if she had only a brief time to live. Natasha, evaluating him for S.H.I.E.L.D., tells him that she would do whatever she wanted. As a result, he decides to have a wild party at his house in Malibu and get completely drunk in full armor, thereby endangering everyone around him, making him a rather less positive than usual take on the trope.
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Like You Were Dying / int_512a2028	comment	Knockin' on Heaven's Door is about two men with terminal diseases spending the last of their days enjoying some millions in cash from the mafia they got their hands on.
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Like You Were Dying / int_52f6626	comment	Subverted in Jak II: Renegade. The audience is made more aware of this than the characters, given that they're regularly bombarded by creepy voiceovers from Baron Praxis's City-radios, which often serve as "Wanted Dead or Alive" adverts or handy little reminders to Jak that the Dark Eco in his body will eventually kill him and he's just delaying an inevitable and highly painful end when Praxis could make it so much faster and painless... It doesn't stop Jak, however, who doesn't so much plan to end his days happy as he does plan to gun the living bejeezus out of the Krimzon guard and seek his revenge against Praxis.
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Like You Were Dying / int_592c7d18	comment	Your Lie in April: KÅ�sei Arima was a former piano prodigy, but loses the ability to hear himself play. He meets Kaori Miyazono, a violinist, who inspires him to get back into playing. It is found out that she was keeping the secret that she was dying.
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Like You Were Dying / int_60515a97	comment	Alisin from Fans! in early strips. Finding a cure was the first step of her Character Development from the hedonistic "Alisin" of the first two books to the "Ally" of the fifth and onward.
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Like You Were Dying / int_631805af	comment	Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots: The protagonist is not only extremely old, but has to commit suicide to save the world. He saves the world, is talked out of suicide at the last moment, and then attempts to leave to spend the six months he has left to live agonizing about how miserable his life was. Fortunately, his best friend visits him post-credits and says he'll be by the main character's side for the rest of his life, and promises he'll always remember how amazing he was. He also quits smoking.
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Like You Were Dying / int_68c7e5cd	comment	Macross Frontier plays with this some, uniquely in a way. Sheryl Nome gets hit with Your Days Are Numbered thanks to an Incurable Cough of Death in the second half of the series, and Alto Saotome (finally) ends up getting romantically involved with her after he finds out. There is a subtext to this that it might all be something of an act that the two of them are playing out, ignoring all other considerations just for Sheryl's sake. Sheryl even tries to let Alto off like this, presumably so he'd be free to chase after her rival in the Love Triangle in their last talk before the Final Battle, but we never find out what Alto had to say about that, as Sheryl gives him a "Shut Up" Kiss, declaring that no matter what he said, she wouldn't be able to sing (it's Macross, music is very important). The series ends promptly after the Final Battle without Alto ever finishing what he was going to say. As you might have guessed from the wall of spoiler text, it's complicated, and this is the short version. Still, it's clear that Character Two was very important to Character One.
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Like You Were Dying / int_6cd1904c	comment	In Scent of a Woman, the lead is given six months to live. She creates her bucket list, including dinner with a pop star and the chance to fall in love.
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Like You Were Dying / int_73d7930f	comment	In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Body Parts", Quark is diagnosed with an incurable and frequently fatal syndrome by a doctor on Ferenginar. He auctions off his vacuum-desiccated remains in traditional Ferengi fashion before he dies, but then it is revealed that the diagnosis was incorrect. His initial response? "It means I get to sue Dr. Orpax for malpractice!"
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Like You Were Dying / int_746814ae	comment	In an episode of Arthur, D.W. and Binky each discover that they've eaten a "poisonous" green potato chip and become unlikely friends. Cue a montage them bodyboarding in a lake, watching 4th of July fireworks, carving jack-o-lanterns, and building a massive snow castle — apparently "dying" for the better part of a year.
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Like You Were Dying / int_79620aaa	comment	Sandra and Woo: This is first hinted, then confirmed, to be the motivation behind Larisa's devil-may-care attitude about life and lack of inhibitions. She's known to be diabetic, and is also hiding some additional drug regimen from her friends. She eventually reveals (via As You Know to Sandra) that she has Wolfram syndrome, which is what's causing her diabetes and is slowly killing her.
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Like You Were Dying / int_86814cd2	comment	Final Fantasy IX: Played straight by Vivi, whose race has a very short lifespan. Averted by Kuja, who doesn't take the news of his pending demise very well... until the very end, when he finally regrets his actions and attempts to make peace with his arch-nemesis.
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Like You Were Dying / int_923dd091	comment	Parodied in the CollegeHumor short "Manic Pixie Dream Prostitute". The titular sex worker, pretending to be a Manic Pixie Dream Girl for a customer dude's fantasy, abruptly declares she's dying and that's why she had so much energy. Then she "dies" in the man's arm, and awakes to demand more money because dead roleplay costs extra.
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Like You Were Dying / int_990e8621	comment	Melancholia has an interesting take on this. Justine develops from being miserable and depressed to calm and peaceful when she realized everyone was going to die from planet Melancholia colliding with Earth. The final scene had Justine and Claireâ€™s son making the magic cave as an attempt to calm him down and try to enforce hope. Justine came through in the end at keeping everyone calm and together, showing how certain situations can sway our attitudes and actions.
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Like You Were Dying / int_aea84589	comment	Lampshaded in the revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, at the end of Sally's song "My Philosophy":
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Like You Were Dying / int_aff74f6b	comment	In D.N.Angel, it's found out that the people in Hiwatari's family have short lifespans, and he doesn't have much longer to live. However, at the same time, he notes that Daisuke was the only person who gave him joy in life.
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Like You Were Dying / int_ba1120d0	comment	Ikiru ("To Live") is a feature-length medication on this trope. When a petty bureaucrat in the Tokyo city planning department learns that he is dying of stomach cancer, he realizes that he's just been going through the motions for most of his life and decides that he wants to learn to truly live before he dies. He tries a lot of things, from dissipation to hedonism to a platonic affair with a former subordinate, which all leave him dissatisfied until he realizes that the solution has been sitting on his desk all along: a plan to build a playground in a poor neighborhood on land coveted by commercial developers, something only someone with his skills developed over a lifetime in the bureaucracy will be able to get accomplished. It's a goal he spends the last months of his life relentlessly and humbly pursuing, eventually dying on the completed playground shortly after the dedication ceremony, happy that he's finally made a real difference for somebody.
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Like You Were Dying / int_c720f71e	comment	YouTube has a video taken at a Garth Brooks concert where, in the middle of Brooks singing "The Dance" (a song about having no regrets about life, because the good always overweighs the bad), a stage camera spots a sign in the audience that reads "Chemo This Morning, Garth Tonight. Enjoying the Dance." Brooks is visibly affected by the attitude, and you can hear his voice begin to quaver a bit.
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Like You Were Dying / int_c9fecc4d	comment	Cathy Jamison from The Big C is diagnosed with terminal cancer, decides not to tell her family (to spare them misery) and spends her last few months taking life by the balls. The first season of the show then thoroughly deconstructs this trope, as her actions look extremely bizarre to her family and only widen existing riffs, while not really bringing her a lot of joy.
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Like You Were Dying / int_ccfdfab1	comment	In Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, Akira's goal is simply to enjoy himself and live life to the fullest after three miserable years in a crushing dead-end job. So he writes down "100 Things to Do Before I Become a Zombie" and resolves to do all of them before kicking the bucket. The Zombie Apocalypse is a great motivator.
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Like You Were Dying / int_dcdb5ca9	comment	Tsukihime: While not actually on the verge of death himself, due to a tragic accident during his childhood that claimed his parents and grandmother, Arihiko Inui was painfully aware that death could come at any moment. Luckily for him, he becomes friends with a certain Shiki Tohno, a boy who really was commonly on the verge of death when he was younger, but whose maturity and philosophical outlook were far beyond his years...
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Like You Were Dying / int_defedb34	comment	Shadow Hearts: Covenant has a strange example. In the good ending, Yuri is impaled on a rock spire to prevent his soul and memories from disappearing, so he could essentially die as himself and be reunited with his dead lover's soul. After the credits, though, it is shown that he is reborn as the man he was in 1913, heavily implied to have all of his memories intact, and he's restarting his life from the moment he met his lover as his second chance to save her life and create the good ending of the first game (Covenant begins as a sequel to the bad ending of the first game).
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Like You Were Dying / int_e1f8df08	comment	Sweet November is part of a Sub-Trope of Manic Pixie Dream Girl films that center around the fact that the girl in question is dying, and wants to try to live life to the fullest. The fact that this effectively makes their life goal "help some guy remove the stick from his ass" is incidental.
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Like You Were Dying / int_e87c1b2f	comment	In Short Time, Dabney Coleman plays an overly cautious, by the book cop who due to a mix-up is told he's terminally ill. He then discovers that his cop life insurance policy will only cover "professional damage" meaning he has to be killed in the line of duty. Wanting his wife and son to have the money, he decides to no longer play it safe, tosses "the book" out the window, and becomes the sort of risk-taking supercop who you only find in movies. Finally, after nearly twenty years of drudgery on the force, begins to believe that his life and his job means something.
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Like You Were Dying / int_ea4f62db	comment	In an episode of Family Guy, a meteor is about to destroy the Earth, so everyone starts acting like this, doing all the things they've always wanted to do without regard for the cost or the danger, since they figure they're all going be dead in a few days anyway, so it doesn't matter if they go broke or die slightly ahead of schedule. Peter, for example, decides to go to a black neighbourhood and shout the n-word in the middle of the street just to see what happens (they were impressed by the amount of bravery it took and made him their king). Then it turns out there was no meteor after all, it was just an April Fool's joke by the news crew.
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Like You Were Dying / int_f2dfb814	comment	The unnamed terminally ill protagonist of Narcissu provides the impetus for the also terminally ill Setsumi to go on a road trip to see the flowers instead of dying in hospital.
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Like You Were Dying / int_f40f4d9	comment	Scent of a Woman does this trope in both directions. Colonel Slade teaches poor, outcast prep student Charlie that you don't have to lie down and let other people's expectations of you determine your life. Charlie teaches the blind, bitter Colonel that you don't always have to spit in people's faces to make yourself important, helping others and sticking to your principles accomplishes the same thing. The Colonel stays blind, but is a little less bitter and Charlie accepts that he'll never be one of the rich White kids at his school, and is okay with that.
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Like You Were Dying / int_f5a3f243	comment	In L: change the WorLd, L spends the last week of his life taking care of two children, even holding a picnic for them while on the run.
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Like You Were Dying / int_f74b5f80	comment	A variant from Babylon 5: Londo Mollari isn't dying anytime soon but, being one of those Centauri who has dreamed of their death, knows that he will die in old age as the Centauri emperor, strangled by G'kar as he strangles him, thus he acts even more unhinged than most Centauri and, in dangerous situations, fights like a madman (that's even his nickname in his duelling circle) because, no matter what, he will survive it until that fatal confrontation.
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Like You Were Dying / int_fc0e7530	comment	Dexter's Laboratory has Dexter eating a comically oversized burrito and assuming that the gas cramps will make him explode, due to testing his hypothesis on a balloon. There is an explosion, but the only thing it destroys is the television he's standing in front of.
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