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[[Death Is Dramatic]]. [[The Musical|So is musical theatre.]] Therefore it should come as no surprise that major deaths are often accompanied by a final musical exclamation by the dying character—and frequently another, for extra duet points.
It should be noted that this can describe a song a character sings as he or she dies, or a song building up to (and ending with) the singing character's death.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* "Blue" from ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''. ▼
** But we're not quite sure he ''is'' dead...<ref>His star fell during the credits. He's dead.</ref>
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam:
== [[Film]] ==
* "I'm Goin' Home" from ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'', though Frank doesn't die during it, but afterwards, and isn't even aware he's going to be killed until afterwards.▼
* The reprise of "Somewhere" is {{spoiler|Tony's}} Death Song in ''[[West Side Story]].'' *sniffle* ▼
* "Mother Earth and Father Time," from the 1973 film of [[Charlotte's Web]].▼
* "The Mole's Reprise" from ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]''.▼
* "{{spoiler|Qui Gon's}} Noble End" from ''[[Star Wars]]''▼
* "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life" from ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian]]''.▼
* In one of its departures from the stage version, "The Flesh Failures/Let the Sun Shine" in the film adaptation of ''[[Hair (film)|Hair]]'' is ''Berger's'' Death Song.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[The Bachelor]]'' when Jimmy notes that [[Mariah Carey]]'s character is singing even while she's dying.▼
* Infamously,and [[Memetic Mutation|memetically]], the violent death scene from the finale of [[The OC]].▼
== [[Music]] ==
* [[Neil Young]]'s ''Birds'' has been interpreted as this.▼
* "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Canadian singer and songwriter [[Gordon Lightfoot]] is based on an actual ship wreck and was done as a memorial.▼
== [[Theatre]] ==
* "How Glory Goes" from ''[[Floyd Collins]]''.
* "Tell Her I Love Her" from ''[[Urinetown]]'', a duet which is half this and half [[Grief Song]].
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* "I Didn't Know I'd Love You So Much" from the film version of ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]''.
* The reprise of the titular song in ''[[Man of La Mancha]]'' - but a surprise, as Don Quixote does not know he is dying.
▲* "I'm Goin' Home" from ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show'', though Frank doesn't die during it, but afterwards, and isn't even aware he's going to be killed until afterwards.
▲* The reprise of "Somewhere" is {{spoiler|Tony's}} Death Song in ''[[West Side Story]].'' *sniffle*
* "Some Things Are Meant To Be" from ''[[Little Women]],'' [[The Musical]], acts as Beth's Death Song, even though she doesn't actually die at the end. She dies afterwards, off-screen.
▲* "Mother Earth and Father Time," from the 1973 film of [[Charlotte's Web]].
* ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' ends with the title character singing a reprise of {{spoiler|"A Barber And His Wife"}} which is both one of these and a [[Grief Song]] given that {{spoiler|he unknowingly killed his wife, who he had spent the entire plot seeking to avenge, because he did not know she was still alive}}, just before {{spoiler|Toby uses Sweeney's own razor to slit his throat}}.
▲* "The Mole's Reprise" from ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]''.
▲* Parodied in ''[[The Bachelor]]'' when Jimmy notes that [[Mariah Carey]]'s character is singing even while she's dying.
▲* "Blue" from ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''.
* "Farewell at the Foot of the Hill" from ''[[Visual Novel/Clannad After Story|Clannad After Story]]''▼
▲* "{{spoiler|Qui Gon's}} Noble End" from ''[[Star Wars]]''
* {{spoiler|Judas's Death}} from ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]''.
* {{spoiler|Now It's Just The Gas for Orin and Somewhere That's Green Reprise for Audrey}} from ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]''. {{spoiler|Two}} other characters die, but they either do not die immediately after a song or die immediately after a song sung by someone else.
* In ''[[Children of Eden]]'' Abel sings a few lines of 'The Wasteland' as he dies ▼
▲* [[Neil Young]]'s ''Birds'' has been interpreted as this.
* The Crucifixion from ''[[Godspell]]'' certainly counts.▼
▲* In [[Children of Eden]] Abel sings a few lines of 'The Wasteland' as he dies
* The Flesh Failures from ''[[Hair (theatre)|Hair]]'' is {{spoiler|Claude's}} death song. He even gets a [[Dark Reprise]] of his [["I Am" Song]] in.▼
▲* The Crucifixion from Godspell certainly counts.
* Last Midnight for The Witch in ''[[Into the Woods]]''. Of course, we're not quite sure if she's dead...▼
▲* The Flesh Failures from Hair is {{spoiler|Claude's}} death song. He even gets a [[Dark Reprise]] of his [["I Am" Song]] in.
▲* Last Midnight for The Witch in [[Into the Woods]]. Of course, we're not quite sure if she's dead...
* "No One Mourns the Wicked" from ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]''. Subverted, as we later find out [[He's Just Hiding|she's just hiding]].
* The reprise of "''Out to the Sea''" for {{spoiler|Robert}} in "[[The Emigrants|Kristina]]", as well as "''I'll Be Waiting There''" for {{spoiler|the titular character.}}
▲* Infamously,and [[Memetic Mutation|memetically]], the violent death scene from the finale of [[The OC]].
== [[Video Games]] ==
▲* "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life" from [[Monty Python's Life of Brian]].
▲* "Farewell at the Foot of the Hill" from ''[[
▲* "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Canadian singer and songwriter Gordon Lightfoot is based on an actual ship wreck and was done as a memorial.
▲* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam the Witch from Mercury]]'' manages to turn "Happy Birthday" into one for multiple characters.
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