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** A minor thief in ''[[Guards! Guards!]]'' turns around the corner and accidentally finds himself mugging a dragon, and dies with "Oh sh--" And then his ghost finishes "--it."
** Many an ancient lord's final words were, "You can't kill me, I'm wearing magic ar''rrgh''!" ("Armour" being the interrupted word)
* Lewis Carroll's ''[[The Hunting of the Snark]]''. The luckless person to find it {{spoiler| (the Baker)}} calls out "It's a Boo--!" and then {{spoiler|softly and suddenly vanished away, for the Snark ''was'' a Boojum, you see.}}
* ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' "You? No!" The word still hung in the air when death took him.” And that's the end of Asmodean. That's also all we hear about it for 8 books. It's slightly frustrating.
* Jake Featherston, the CSA's [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] [[Expy]] in [[Harry Turtledove]]'s ''[[Timeline-191]]'' series, does ''not'' commit suicide; he's still pushing his underlings to regroup when a group of black guerrillas spots them. "Get us some motorcars and--"