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A comedic storyline where the characters have been told that they have accidentally been poisoned, or have contracted a terminal illness, and only have one day left to live. The characters typically go around doing things they would never do otherwise: Rob a store, Insult some very tough-looking bikers, confess their feelings of true love to someone who doesn't reciprocate....and then they find out they aren't actually going to die after all. They are now screwed. See also [[The Last Dance]], [[Your Days Are Numbered]] and [[Like You Were Dying]].
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== Anime
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', where Sousuke orders a thermos full of a new form of liquid bioweapon. He brings it to school, go figure, and the entire campus is locked down. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. It turns out to only dissolve fabrics. ....''[[The Nudifier|almost all fabrics]]''.
* Van Zant and Smitty's initial reason for killing people during the Majin Buu Saga of ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' essentially amounted to this, as Zant wanted to kill as many people as he could due to the world ending with Majin Buu and wanting to go out with a bang. It's also viciously done in that not only did the end of the world end up not happening because Mr. Satan managed to teach Majin Buu right from wrong, but their nearly killing Mr. Satan as well as Bee the puppy when attempting to kill Majin Buu so they could kill more people ended up triggering the apocalypse due to Buu forcibly expelling his evil self, and then being absorbed by it.
== Film ==
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* Used in ''[[Dead Like Me]]'', Mason gets a purple post-it instead of the usual yellow and thinks this means he's going to reach his quota. After moping the entire day and selling all his possessions, the next day everyone gets a purple post-it. What? Rube was out of yellow. It's more of a Last Day to Be Undead, but...
** It's more likely that Mason had thought the purple post-it meant that Rube had found out about him {{spoiler|killing Ray}}, and that's also why he was so convinced that that day was going to be his last.
* In ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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* ''[[Even Stevens]]'': While not actually dealing with death, this trope still applies: In one episode, the Stevens were going to move to Washington D.C. after Mrs. Stevens won the Senate seat, so the family tried to live out their last day in their hometown to do things (Ren Stevens having her friends paired up with a lookalike, Louis Stevens finally taping his feelings for his female friend, and Steve Stevens... well... telling off his boss.). Of course, once it turns out that they wouldn't be moving to Washington D.C. after all (Turns out they mixed up the ballots, which means it was actually her opponent who won the election.), they immediately attempt to rectify the situation. It's also subverted in the sense that Steve Stevens ended up refusing to rejoin his job in the end despite attempt to get it back, as well as Louis Stevens receiving a video from his crush explaining her feelings for him as well by mistake (he originally intended to get back his own tape). Played straight with Donny, though, as his coach ended up in Washington D.C. because he never got the memo.
* The final episode of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' had this trope forcibly being placed onto HRG (Claire also was trapped with him, but for [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|obvious reasons]], she was exempt from this trope). After Samuel Sullivan buried the prize trailer that HRG was held in and Claire Bennet got trapped trying to save HRG, he ended up giving up hope on living and telling her to escape without him when Claire was desperately trying to get them both out. He only managed to survive another day along with Claire due to Tracy Strauss getting them out with her water abilities at the last second.
== Video Games ==
* Subverted in ''[[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker]]'', when Coldman managed to activate Peace Walker's launch protocol ''and'' its ability to leak data to NORAD, because he knows full well he is going to die before the consequences of his actions could come to haunt him if it turned out they would launch, and he actually does end up dying, even going as far as to do so before divulging the abort code (and it is heavily implied that he intended to die before giving out the abort code so there is no way they could stop it.).
* Inverted in ''[[Batman
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (
** Later in the series, Homer is following a self-help book. He reads "Live each day as if it were your last"; [[Smash Cut]] to him sitting on a curb, sobbing about how he doesn't want to die.
** When he thinks the world is going to end at sundown, [[Single
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* This was the plot of ''[[
* There was also an episode of ''[[
* Inverted in an episode of ''[[
* ''[[Hey Arnold
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* The second episode of ''[[
* In a ''[[
* In [[Arthur (
== Real Life ==
* Real life example, for some inadequately explored reason people thought the world would end in 1998, there were even radio adverts preparing people for their last day on Earth. This was in England by the way, and after said last day? Life continued as normal and never mentioned again.
* Many will probably be acting the same way in 2012.{{context}}
* May 21, 2011 anyone?{{context}}
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