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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]]
Occasionally a near-death scene will be faked, in order to get someone to agree to something; most often played for comedy.
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* In ''[[Angel]]'', {{spoiler|Fred's last request is that lover Wesley tell her parents that she was brave when she died.}} Or possibly averted since in a very uncharacteristic move: he forgot.
** 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
* 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.
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