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* In ''[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]'' Shinji got into this state after Mot's counterattack.
{{quote|“Do not worry,” Rei said, face emotionless. “He is only clinically dead.” There was a pause, just enough for the black-haired woman to take a breath to respond, before Rei added, “He will get better.“}}
* In ''[http://fav.me/dd7ow55 Case of the Missing Technology]':', Thethe [[Playful Hacker|narrator]] explains to Jay about how members of {{spoiler|[[Girls Aloud]]}} were found near death, with some of them even been [[An Arm and a Leg|dismembered]] yet still alive. Later, {{spoiler|[[Spice Girls|Melanie Jayne]]}} is found in a similar condition. When she "woke up", {{spoiler|[[Spice Girls|Melanie Jayne]]}} learns that her head was placed in a device to stay alive until a replacement body is found... [[Futurama|reminds anyone of a show where a celebrity head is alive]] and [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight| without much noticed]], except for the narrator, of course.
 
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* [[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]] {{spoiler|gives himself up to Lord Voldemort in an attempt to save his friends in the last book. Harry is hit with Avada Kedavra and his soul enters some form of limbo long enough for exposition from Dumbledore, but because Voldemort accidentally tied him to life by taking his blood, Harry eventually revives unharmed.}}
** Voldemort himself could count. He is hit by an unstoppable killing spell, but survives as a spirit 'less than the meanest ghost' {{spoiler|because he split up his soul and hid the pieces in ordinary objects}}. He eventually returns to his whole body.
* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld/The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents|The Amazing Maurice and Hishis Educated Rodents]]'', the titular cat, Maurice, uses one of his [[Cats Have Nine Lives|nine lives]] to avoid becoming "all dead".
* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/The Restaurant At The End of The Universe|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'' famed Disaster Area frontman Hotblack Desiato is "spending a year dead for tax purposes". He still manages to eat at fine restaurants, travels the universe hooked up to his Death Support System, and employs a medium to translate his psychic impulses from beyond the grave into music.
* In ''[[Lonely Werewolf Girl]]'' the souls of dead werewolves go to the Forest Of The Werewolf Dead, fortunately Fire-Demon Malvera is able to intercept heroine Kalix's soul while it's just in the outskirts and bring her back. All for the [[Deal with the Devil|bargain price]] of one human girl's ability to love.
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