Near-Death Clairvoyance: Difference between revisions

 

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* ''[[Giant Robo]]'' uses the narration version of this trope to pull off [[Anyone Can Die]]. {{spoiler|Ginrei narrates the beginning of the first episode as if she's flashing back after the end of the story. After she dies in the last episode, her disembodied spirit says a few lines in a post-credits epilogue.}}

* Ash and Pikachu go through this in the ''[[Pokémon]]'' episode in which the team goes to Lavender Town in order to catch a Ghost Pokemon(which he does...kind of). [[Hilarity Ensues]] with Misty and Brock.

* Erza in [[Fairy Tail]], after she attempts to sacrifice herself to stop the Etherion from killing Natsu.

 

* The [[Spice Girls]] fic ''[https://www.wattpad.com/story/163260272-astral-journey-it's-complicated Astral Journey: It's Complicated]'' has the narrator (Emma) and Melanie going through this.

 

* ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' has a child who can see all sorts of Dead Men Walking. {{spoiler|Including the protagonist, who is totally unaware he's dead.}} It's so old now as to have become a [[It Was His Sled|catch-phrase]], but hey, a spoiler is a spoiler.

* According to director commentary on ''[[The Abyss]]'', the sequence where Ed Harris's character tries to revive his love interest was shot with camera angles meant to evoke the "hovering over your body" idea.

* In ''[[The Orphanage]]'', {{spoiler|people who are close to death can see ghosts, and the main character can see ghosts because she is dying of cancer.}}

 

* ''[[Anansi Boys]]'', by Neil Gaiman, which contains a subplot of the ghost of Maeve Livingstone watching the investigations of her own murder.

* Setup of ''[[The Lovely Bones]]''.

 

* An entire episode of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' is told from the point of view of a soldier's ghost, seen by Klinger while the latter [[Fever Dream Episode|recovers from a high fever]].

* ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' manages to kill off its [[Narrator]] at the start of the first episode. She continues narrating, giving us glimpses into the personal lives of her still-living friends that they don't get to see in each other. She actually appears to Lynnette in one episode.

* In ''Kingdom Hospital'', Stephen King's [[Author Avatar]] spends nearly the whole series slipping in and out of a ghostly duplicate of the hospital, halfway between life and true death, while his body lies comatose.

 

* Similarly, ''[[Orpheus]]'' split the "Laments" between actual ghosts and living people who were able to project their soul out of their body. Skimmers could do it through meditation, but Sleepers required cryogenic tanks to bring their body to a state of "death" that would allow them to "vacate the premises." In fact, that's how Orpheus got into the "post-life management" business—they were doing extensive research into cryogenics, and discovered an interesting side effect...

 

* A routine event for the titular character in ''[[Nodwick]]''.

 

* In ''[[Family Guy]]'', Peter is struck by lightning and has a [[Near-Death Experience]]. He proceeds to steal money from his own wallet and later tries to reenter his body through the mouth, having about as much success as a flesh-and-blood fat man would have trying to climb inside an unconscious person. [[Grim Reaper|Death (a recurring character)]] shows up to hang out with him for a while as part of his [[Near-Death Experience]], and when Peter asks when he's really going to die, he's told it'll be a few years after Lois divorces him. Peter tries convincing Death that'll never happen, and leads him through a bunch of flashbacks depicting their courtship, showing how deeply in love they were. In the process, Peter realizes that he's been taking Lois for granted lately, and has the epiphany necessary to save his marriage.

 

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