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Another example is when the focus character mistakenly believes ''himself'' to be dying. As a result, he decides to take suicidally risky dares in order to go out in a blaze of glory (and, in some cases, to [[Suicide Is Painless|avoid the ravages of the imagined disease]]). Often times, the other characters tell him in the midst of one of the dares that he is in perfect health. His flash of relief is immediately replaced with mortal terror as he realizes that he has unnecessarily placed himself in mortal danger and has to be rescued.
Compare [[Hypochondria]] and [[Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You!]].
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* Also happened in the ''[[Godzilla: The Series]]'', where Randy reads an email to Mendel, saying that "his virus is fatal". Little did he know that the email was about a mummy Mendel examinated beforehand.
* Another example of "mechanic's report mistaken for doctor's diagnosis" occurs in an episode of ''The Raccoons'', where Cyril Sneer is ill and his pig servants, overhearing the doctor on the phone about his clapped-out car, mistakenly think Cyril "only has a few days to live". At first, Cyril also believes this "diagnosis", but, on learning that he only has a cold, keeps up the pretence in an attempt to force the Evergreen Standard(which needs a new printing press) out of business. However, Bert Raccoon thinks of a way he and his friends can both commemorate Cyril and save their paper - a memorial printing press.
* ''[[South Park]]'' episode [https://web.archive.org/web/20100131080712/http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103810
* ''Drawn Together'' has an episode {{spoiler|where Captain Hero hits his arch nemesis with a car, and decides to take care of him on his death bed. However, it's just an elaborate ploy to get CH to wash his balls, a recurring theme between the two.}}
* Pickles thinks he's dying in an episode of ''[[Metalocalypse]]''. It turns out everyone in the band switched their medical records with each other and the real one dying was {{spoiler|Toki's cat}}.
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