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* In [[Ngaio Marsh]]'s ''The Nursing Home Murder'', an ailing and unpopular Prime Minister collapses while speaking in the House of Commons. He's sent to a private hospital for an emergency appendectomy, but doesn't survive the procedure.

* Robert Heinlein's ''[[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress]]''. While Professor Bernardo de la Paz was on Earth he suffered greatly from the Earth's greater gravity, as it was six times what he was used to. After he returned to the Moon he seemed to get better. Near the end of the novel, after the Moon had won the war with the Federated Nations of Earth, he gave a speech to a crowd of Loonies.

Then he did die. }}

* A victim in the ''[[Alex Rider]]'' series goes out this way.