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Something you request right before you die. Sometimes offered to you by your executioner, in which case you might ask for something seemingly innocuous, but pivotal to your narrow escape [[Clear My Name|stratagem]] or even [[Thanatos Gambit]]. You might also be offered one last choice of dish which isn't good for escape but at least you die full. And you might ask them to [[Get It Over With]], which tends to be not what they expect. A common comedy version is asking to not be killed.
See also [[One Last Smoke]] for a character indulging a charming partiality one last time.
You can also transfer your responsibilities to someone else with your last breath. Asking someone to take care of your family, [[Bring News Back|deliver a message]], [[Best Served Cold|avenge you]], or generally [[Take Up My Sword|keep up the good fight]] is almost playing low though, as a deathbed promise even by request, is very hard to refuse and nearly [[I Gave My Word|unbreakable]]—even if [[What You Are in the Dark|no one would ever know]]. (Though if you are [[Dying as Yourself]], you may have no choice.) This can be made especially touching with a [[Pietà Plagiarism]], or even [[Cradling Their Kill]]!
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Occasionally a near-death scene will be faked, in order to get someone to agree to something; most often played for comedy.
Tends to be called a Dying Wish if you're lying around and dying slowly.
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== [[Comics]] ==
* On her deathbed, {{spoiler|Kathy}} in ''[[Shade the Changing Man]]'' {{spoiler|makes Shade promise to care for their baby}}.
* ''Adventures Of The Rifle Brigade''. One of the privates has the hots for his commanding officer and takes advantage of each minor bump and wound. One time it was a request for a handjob like 'Nanna used to do'. Nanna did no such thing.
* ''[[Nick Fury]]'' fufills one of his dying men's request to watch out for his kid. Said kid is a simpleton who, despite supervision, keeps injuring himself. Nick almost shoots the boy to put him out of his seeming misery.
* In ''[[Superman and Batman Generations]]'', a dying Joker asks [[Batman]] to reveal his identity to "confirm a suspicion" (namely that [[Legacy Immortality|he's not the first Batman]]; Joker's right, this Batman is Dick Grayson). Batman refuses, saying "You're the '''last''' person I'd want to see die happy!"
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* "[[Spider-Man (film)|Peter, Don't tell Harry]]."
* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''. Eddie Valiant asks Judge Doom to grant one to Roger before "dipping" him. Doom agrees, and Eddie gives Roger a double shot of bourbon. This causes Roger to do his "steam whistle" impersonation, which distracts Doom and the weasels enough for Eddie and Roger to escape.
* [[Tron]]: Ram's [[Famous Last Words]]. "Flynn, help Tron..."
* In ''[[Die Hard|Die Hard with a Vengeance]]'', McClane asks Gruber if he has any aspirin. This doesn't help McClane escape his predicament, but it does give them a lead on where to find Gruber later.
== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[Poul Anderson]]'s ''[[The Broken Sword]]'', the dying hero's last request is for a [[Last Kiss]].
* In [[Ben Counter]]'s ''[[Warhammer
* In [[Star Wars/Allegiance|Allegiance]], Mara Jade's ally Tannis tells her, while dying of burns, to bury him out in space. She does.
* [[Artemis Fowl]]: The Opal Deception. Right before Julius dies he tells Holly something about saving Artemis, and you know what? He dies, and Holly goes to save Artemis.
* In ''[[Les Misérables]]'', Eponine asks Marius to kiss her on the forehead after she's dead. He obliges.
* In Suzanne Collins's ''[[The Hunger Games]]'', Rue asks Katniss to sing for her. Despite not singing for years, Katniss comes through.
* In the opening chapter of the first book of [[The Stormlight Archive]], King Gavilar gives his assassin a dark-glowing sphere of unknown origin and nature, to keep away from "them", and a cryptic message for his brother. The assassin obliges in taking the sphere and leaving the message because he believes the last wishes of the dying are sacred.
* "Look at me..." {{spoiler|Snape}}'s [[Last Words]] to [[Harry Potter|Harry]], he wants Lily's eyes to be the last thing he sees.
* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[The Golden Oecumene|The Golden Age]]'', it turns out that Phaethon is suing to have his father declared dead after his father had died to save him and been revived from a noumenal recording, not becuase he is an [[Ungrateful Bastard]] but to carry out his father's Last Request.
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** Later on {{spoiler|Wesley's last request is for Illyria to shapeshift and pretend to be the deceased Fred}}, and it (she?) complies.
* In the last episode of ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]'', the [[Imagine Spot]] song features three Russians played by Bret, [[Stalker with a Crush|Mel]] and her husband stranded on a small boat, with the Bret character continuously being asked for his Last Request before the others [[I'm a Humanitarian|eat him]]. He keeps asking them to sing and dance in the hopes of exhausting them too much to do it. [[Nightmare Fuel|It doesn't work]].
* One episode of ''[[Reno 911!]]'' featured a injured and bleeding Junior being held by the new recruit while they await an ambulance. He seems like he's dying so she agrees to sleep with him if he pulls through. They keep talking and realize they are, in fact, cousins. As the ambulance arrives, Junior hops to his feet (not nearly as injured as he was leading on) and she finds herself shocked and disgusted that he intends to hold her to agreeing to have sex with him.
* In [[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]], the Mystic Man's direct order to Cain to protect DG "at any cost" becomes this.
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' TOS episode "The Obsolete Man". The title character is about to be executed by the State for having an obsolete job: being a librarian. He is allowed to choose the method of his execution, which he takes advantage of to show how cowardly and weak the State is.
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