Living on Borrowed Time: Difference between revisions

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[D.O.A.]]'' is the [[Trope Codifier]], with a protagonist who's been poisoned in a manner that has no antidote.

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* This is the driving premise for action in ''[[Crank]]''. {{spoiler|At the very end of the first movie, Chev literally tapes a life support machine to himself.}}

** In the game itself, there's the Black Templars Chaplain Grimaldus - who has a special rule called ''Only in Death does Duty End'', permitting him to ignore fatal wounds as long as he continues to hold his nerve and focus on the Emperor's Will, although it's specified that even if this lets him finish out the battle, he's considered to die at the end.

* In the 3.5 ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' supplement ''The Book of Erotic Fantasy'' (a 3rd-party supplement dealing expressly with sex and all its aspects in the terms of the d20 system), there is a spell called Shadow Life. It is distinctly separate from the theme of the rest of the book, as on its own it has no sexual connotations. It grants the target ( a recently-dead character) one extra day of life for every level the caster has. The flavor text is especially poignant.

** Can count as [[Miles to Go Before I Sleep]], and is thus on that page too.

** In 3.5 proper, ''The Book of Exalted Deeds'' gives us the Risen Martyr [[Prestige Class]]. Someone who has died in the name of a good cause is brought back and granted special powers to fulfill that cause. When the work is finished or they have reached eleven levels after the point of resurrection (whichever comes first), the Risen Martyr is taken bodily into the Higher Planes and granted whatever reward is waiting for them.