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{{quote|''How's it hit ya, when you get that kind of news.<br />
''Man what do you do.<br />
''And he says,<br />
''I went
''I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Fu Manchu]].''|'''[[Tim McGraw]]''', "Live [[Trope Namer|Like You Were Dying]]"}}▼
▲I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Fu Manchu]].''|'''[[Tim McGraw]]''', "Live [[Trope Namer|Like You Were Dying]]"}}
A character knows that [[Your Days Are Numbered|the end is nigh]]. They're usually sick but sometimes doomed in another way. The character understandably angsts about it. They angst so much, that they can't make use of their remaining time. But then, they meet someone: A character who's equally doomed, a [[Love Interest]] or a [[Cheerful Child|happy]] [[Children Are Innocent|innocent]] child. This person's attitude can be summed up with: "Yep, dying sucks, [[The World Is Just Awesome|but life is fun anyway.]]" The two become friends and have a lot of fun. The good, healthy, swimming-naked-in-the-sea-at-night sort of fun, not the waste-time-surfing-the-net sort naturally.
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* [[Final Fantasy IX]]: Played straight by Vivi, whose race has a very short lifespan. Averted by Kuja, [[Earthshattering Kaboom|who doesn't take the news of his pending demise very well...]] {{spoiler|Until the very end, where he finally regrets his actions and attempts to make peace with his arch-nemesis.}}
* In the Visual Novel ''Heart De Roommate'' {{spoiler|the main heroine Asumi and her [[Dead Little Sister|older sister]] both possess an incurable heart disease which will kill them before they hit their twentieth birthday, something that both girls understandably found depressing. The older sister finally realized the truth of this trope on her death bed, [[My Sibling Will
** {{spoiler|The [[Player Character|PC]] asking her to [[Please Don't Leave Me|live for him]] and her renewed determination [[Power of Love|to do so for as long as she can]] moves it from firm [[Downer Ending]] territory into a more [[Bolivian Army Ending|open yet still tragic conclusion]].}}
* This happens to several characters in ''Tales of the Abyss,'' but some take it better than others...
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