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''It's not my time to go''|[[Madonna]]|"Die Another Day"}}

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic]]'' (1970's version) episode "War of the Gods". After Apollo is killed by Count Iblis, his body is taken aboard the ship of the "angels". The "angels" say that Apollo was not meant to die and that Ibis had broken their laws by killing him. They then bring him back to life.

* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''. "Tapestry".

'''Q:''': Of ''course'' you'll ''die''! It'll just be at a ''later'' time. }}

* In the episode "The Fisher King: Part II" of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', Elle talks with her dead father after being shot by an unsub. Somewhat bizarrely, the entire conversation (which is interspersed throughout the episode) takes place on the team's jet, which is slowly being emptied of furniture. At the end of the episode, Elle returns to life, and her father promises they'll see each other again, when it's her time.

* Happens to Sofia from ''[[Golden Girls]]'' ''twice'', both times seeing her late husband Salvadore and being tempted to stay.

* One of [[Jeff Foxworthy]]'s bits has him speculating that catch and release must be like a near death experience for fish.

* In one episode of ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'', a rather morbid kid obsessed with death is mistaken for a wandering spirit ready to enter the afterlife by some sort of spiritual attendant (played by Gilbert Godfrey). He eventually gets thrown into the afterlife...and is promptly thrown out. He explains that "they" said he wasn't dead yet. The kid seems to take that to heart and is noticably less morbid at the end of the episode.

* Mac gets told this, though not verbatim, by his late wife Claire in the ''[[CSI: NY]]'' episode 'Near Death', where he's been shot and is hovering on the brink.

** The text box for Spirit Healers also says this. Seems like everything in Azeroth that's not [[Everything Trying to Kill You|trying to kill you]] is trying just as hard to keep you alive.

* ''[[Fable]] 2'': When you get shot by Lucien and fall from the window of Castle Fairfax, Theresa and your dog find you.

* Kratos chooses his time in ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]''. Even the Judges of the Underworld admit that Kratos did not belong in the afterlife yet.

* In ''[[Might and Magic]] VI'', a figure that appears to be a cross between [[The Grim Reaper]] and the boatman to the underworld says this to the player if the entire party is knocked out, killed or [[Deader Than Dead|eradicated]].

* [[The Darkness (video game)|The Darkness]] {{spoiler|tries to stop Jackie Estacado from committing suicide over his dead girlfriend, Jenny}}.