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== Tabletop Games ==

* [[Warhammer 40000]]: One of the [[Space Wolves]] characters has a stasis bomb in place of a second heart. When he dies, the bomb activates and all models in base contact are removed from the game. Including [[Humongous Mecha|Titans]]. All affected are locked in a time loop, and forced to listen to his last laugh. Forever.

* D&D has a spell called Contingency, that can do this if you know another spell that would be helpful. Though, the condition for activating the second spell can be just about ''anything'' ~~-- it~~ doesn't ''have'' to be your death. On the other hand, the spell gets triggered when the specified condition occurs, whether you ''want'' it to [[Gone Horribly Right|go off at that moment]] or not.

* D&D has a spell called Contingency, that can do this if you know another spell that would be helpful. Though, the condition for activating the second spell can be just about ''anything''—it doesn't ''have'' to be your death. On the other hand, the spell gets triggered when the specified condition occurs, whether you ''want'' it to [[Gone Horribly Right|go off at that moment]] or not.

** There are a number of Epic Destinies who have powers that state: "once per day when you die" as their activation condition. Usually, it involves getting revived.

* There are several ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' cards which have abilities which activate on conditions which would normally cost you the game.