A Good Way to Die: Difference between revisions

* [[Die Laughing]]: Usually the most benign form of this trope is the one at play: the character laughs because they die genuinely happy.

* [[Died Happily Ever After]]: If the work in question has the element of the afterlife present, the character dying will ALWAYS express their happiness beyond the wall of death.

* [[Dying Declaration of Love]]: The character dies happy in the knowledge that they were finally able to [[Cannot Spit It Out|spit it out]].

* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: VERY common with this trope.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: No trope invokes dying without regrets as much as a heroic sacrifice.

* [[I Die Free]]: A character is free from bondage in death and welcomes it.

== Literature ==

* Little Big Man: At the end of the novel, the Cheyenne chief Old Lodge Skins declares that "It is a good day to die." He asks Jack to accompany him to the summit of a nearby hill, where he lays down and promptly dies.

{{quote| '''Old Lodge Skins''': "Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn't."}}

* In ''Xenocide'', Ender refuses to Speak the death of {{spoiler|Quim}}, not because the deceased would have disapproved (though he would have), but because Ender felt there was nothing to say - {{spoiler|Quim's}} life was true and complete, and he died spreading the Gospel, as he'd have wished.

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