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{{quote|''O'Grady, he was eighty, though his bride was just a pup,

 

A character having a heart attack and dying ''during'' sex, to the embarrassment and mortification of his or her still-living partner. Generally used in comedy (because, unless it's [[Played for Laughs|played for laughs]], there's nothing pleasant for the person who was with that character at the time). Sometimes they also [[Go Out with a Smile]].

* In the second chapter of ''[[Franken Fran]]'', Fran heals a crippled girl by making her part insect. When she goes to a love hotel with her new boyfriend after her convalescence is over, she instinctively eats her mate.

* The very first demon we meet in ''[[Berserk]]'' takes the form of a beautiful naked woman who lures men into sex with her so that she can transform into her true form and eat them alive. She is killed by Guts in the very first scene of the manga when she tries this on him and gets her brains blown out the back of her head with his [[Arm Cannon]]. But during the Eclipse, we get to see this Apostle in action {{spoiler|when she eats Corkus alive}}.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Cinder, one of the members of Deathstroke's new [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|"Titans"]] team of killers, is first seen having sex with one of that sucks out your [[Life Force]]. It doesn't help that her current form is based on the protagonist's subconscious ideal of the perfect woman, so he's [[Evil Is Sexy|obsessed with her]] at the same time as he's trying to track her down and kill her.

 

* In ''[[Divine Blood]]'' Aphrodite's [[Heroic Sacrifice|last]] [[Dying Moment of Awesome|stand]] in words of one commentator:

{{quote|"Check me on this, please ... Aphrodite killed at least fifty rebel gods, and incapacitated not less than 250 others for, well, we can assume several days at least, one of whom is Zeus himself ... in a bedroom-Olympiad that ran over two days?"}}

* In [http://anime.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600044772&chapter=8 this] ''[[Code Geass]]'' fanfic (very soft for something hosted on adultfanfiction.net), Euphie is stupid enough to have sex with Suzaku who is recovering from critical injuries. He barely survives.

* In the ''[[Touhou]]'' doujin ''Though the Wind Cries'' {{spoiler|a man who lost his entire family in the drought blames Suwako for it. He then proceeds to rape her as she is going through quite a severe [[Heroic BSOD]] and does no resistance. However during this, something snaps inside of her and she kills the man during the act.}}

 

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[The Infernal Affairs Trilogy|Internal Affairs II]]'', {{spoiler|the capo "Gandhi" gets suffocated with a plastic bag by a "masseuse" when he's expecting a different kind of "happy ending".}}

* In ''[[Spies Like Us]]'', Chevy Chase even ''says the line.'' Perfectly subverted in that {{spoiler|everyone in the group of spies and Soviets gets to have sex with someone, and then they figure out how to disarm the nuclear missile and avert world obliteration}}.

* In ''[[Death Becomes Her]]'', [[Bruce Willis]]'s character has a "customer" who died this way, big grin and all.

* In the screwball comedy ''Sibling Rivalry'' (1990), The one-night stand of Marjorie Turner (Kirstie Alley) dies during a wild rumpus. This lands Marjorie in a fine mess.

* In a German sex horror film called ''[[Rossa Venezia]]'', the killings are touched off by a wife coming home to find her hunting-crazy husband in bed with a pretty young thing riding his lap. As quietly as she can, she picks up his elephant gun and lets her have it in the back of her head. Just so happens they were climaxing at the same time too, making this a twofer for the unlucky gal. She then proceeds to [[Ax Crazy|flip the hell out]] and rampage across Germany Mrs. Vorhees style, killing anyone she sees 'doing the deed' or just having done it. For less of a bang but still a bang, she executes a couple of other women with electrified dildos.

** ''[[Ten Little Maidens]]'' with input by the same writer also features an electrified DOUBLE dildo as part of an incredibly unrealistic murder ploy. Yeah, that [[Fetish Fuel|seems to kind of be his thing]].

 

== Jokes ==

* An old joke, somewhat [[Not Safe for Work|NSFW]]: Two people are having sex in the back of a car when the man suddenly has a heart attack whilst still joined with his partner. The woman freaks but can't get him off her; she nevertheless manages to summon help, who get the emergency services to come out. They determine that the only way to get him out of there is to take the roof off the car. The fire department saws the roof off the car and manages to get the guy out, and as the paramedics are taking him away a police officer tries to comfort the woman, who is sobbing hysterically. She says "Don't worry, your husband's going to be fine." The woman replies "Fuck him, he's not my husband. It's my husband's car, though." Ba-dum-tish.

* Another joke: An ambulance is called early one Sunday morning to the home of an elderly couple, the paramedics find them both naked in bed - him dead, her weeping. When the paramedics ask what happened she explained: "Well my husband had a weak heart, but we both still wanted to have a sex life. So we'd only have sex once a week, timing our thrusts to the sound of the church bells to keep it slow.... ''if only that '''fucking''' ice cream van hadn't come along!''"

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* In the beginning of the ''[[Star Trek: New Frontier]]'' series, the Vulcan Selar is consummating her Pon farr with her mate when he dies. This merely delays the Pon farr for a little while. She eventually consummates with Burgoyne, the hermaphrodite engineer.

* A particularly disgusting variation of this occurred in [[John Connolly]]'s short story ''The Cancer Cowboy Rides.'' [[Enemy to All Living Things|Buddy Carson]] seduces a drunken waitress and has sex with her; however, on the second round, the waitress begins to feel the effects of Buddy's unique gift- ''fast-acting cancer transmitted by touch:'' tumours, black blood, and a slow and agonising death that Buddy watches eagerly.

* In ''[[The Iron Dragon's Daughter|The Iron Dragons Daughter]]'', Jane used [[Deus Sex Machina|sex magic]] {{spoiler|to convert her unfortunate targets into jet fuel for Melanchthon.}}

* [[Gene Wolfe]]'s "There are Doors" had an alternate Earth where humans have a very different reproductive cycle; after sex women store men's semen in their body for the rest of their life, and can use it to have as many children as they wish. Men die, as their immune system shuts down.

* The ''[[Sano Ichiro]]'' series used this as a major part of the plot in one of the books. {{spoiler|In ''The Perfumed Sleeve'', Sano's rival Makino dies during a threesome; his partners flee in panic, and his manservant finds his body and tried to "clean things up" so it looks like his master died with dignity.}}

* Averted, lampshaded, and played with in [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s novel ''[[I Will Fear No Evil]]''. The protagonist's elderly husband dies of a stroke on their honeymoon cruise (while lifting a heavy object), and his wife tearfully asks their physician if a contributing factor could have been 'too much honeymoon'. Her physician discusses this trope with her -- and then points out that in his experience cardio-vascular events brought on by sex generally happen immediately ''before'' the sex act in question, as the most logical time for them to happen is during the initial blood pressure spike brought on by the pre-sex arousal.

 

* Forms the basis of the plot of at least one episode of ''[[CSI]]'', with rather roundabout complications.

** In this episode, the main suspect, {{spoiler|a very overweight woman, accidentally suffocates her partner when she passes out drunk on top of him. The woman actually told the police that she smothered him with a pillow, because she said she would rather confess to murder than suffer through the jokes that would be made about her because of the true nature of the victim's death. Believe it or not, the show handled this with a degree of sensitivity}}.

* On [[Ham and Cheese]]-fest ''[[Dynasty]]'', Cecil Colby (Lloyd Bochner) suffers a heart attack and dies underneath new wife Alexis (Joan Collins). Alexis slapping him in the face to bring him around adds [[Narm]].

* Subverted and then played straight in an episode of ''[[Chicago Hope]]''. A man has a very bad blockage in his heart and shows up to get surgery. It turns out the doctor is an old flame of his. He doesn't tell her about his heart condition, instead acting like the only reason he's come to town is to see her.(Which isn't entirely a lie. It was really both reasons). They end up having sex and he has a heart attack during it. He actually lives for awhile afterwards since the doctor took the necessary steps to preserve his life and got him into surgery immediately. But while in recovery, his wife shows up. He wakes up to see his wife and the doctor together and instantly assumes that the doctor felt guilty (she didn't know he was married) and told the wife about his infidelity. The panic causes him to have ANOTHER heart attack, which kills him.

** In another episode, a man with a fetish for fatties ended up dying by suffocation when his date for the night climaxed and then passed out from exhaustion on top of him, preventing his lungs from expanding and covering his face with her fat rolls. Her reaction when she awoke was disappointed, but oddly not that surprised.

** A cheating sleaze is bitten by a spider, whose venom acts like Viagra during his final hours. Trying to relieve himself of the... ''tension'', he goes through a series of his girls until finally collapsing dead with one.

'''Owen:''' Now that's how I'd like to go.

'''Tosh:''' I'm sure we could arrange it. }}

* The live-action version of ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' kills off the Immortal (a [[Expy|Superman-expy]]) with a heart attack while under Captain Liberty. Given the... erm, ''frizzy'' part of her hair in the following scenes (and the paired scorchmarks in her ceiling), it's evident he wasn't in full control of his heat vision during the act...

* On ''[[The Golden Girls]]'', this is apparently how Rose's husband Charlie died.

{{quote|'''Rose:''' Oh, there was something wild about him that night. Although I did think it was strange when he started yelling, "Rose, I'm going! I'm going!"}}

 

== [[Music]] ==

* A double KO takes place at the end of "Leaving Love All Over The Place" by [[George Jones]]:

{{quote|''The mourners formed a single line

 

== [[New Media]] ==

* [[Snopes]] has [http://www.snopes.com/risque/kinky/cowheart.asp a (false) story] about someone who electrocuted himself using a cow's heart as an electrically-stimulated sex toy.

 

* [[Bill Hicks]] had a bit where he talks about his ex-girlfriend, and how he fantasizes that one day, she'll be having sex with her morbidly obese, abusive husband, and he'll die mid-coitus, right on top of her, slowly crushing her to death, and bile and blood and tobacco-laced saliva will spew out of his mouth into her face, and just before she drowns, she turns her head to the TV, "...and I'm gonna be on it!"

* In his third ''Evening With...'' DVD, [[Kevin Smith]] talks about the requirements for being canonized, and says it helps dying in the name of God, which means you could be in the middle of coitus, and suddenly clutch your chest and cry out "Jesus!" and you'd be "Saint Nutsdeep, Patron Saint of Dying While Fucking".

* [[Richard Pryor]] claimed that this is how his father checked out; "My father came and went at the same time".

** He also said in one (raunchy, thus spoilered) routine that it's how he wanted to go if they were ever going to do [[World War III|WWIII]]: {{spoiler|"If they launch, we'll get told you got half an hour to get out. Half an hour? That ain't enough ''time.'' Everyone clogging up the road; you ain't getting no-place! Me, I know a woman I been wanting to be with for ten years.. I would ''RUN'' over to her house; I'd say "baby (pant) we got fifteen, (pant) fifteen minutes!" And hope I get a nut just as the bomb go off!"}}

 

== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

* This was the [[Double Entendre|climax]] of [[WWE]] [[WWE/Characters/Divas|Diva]] Dawn Marie's (storyline) romance with Torrie Wilson's (real life) father Al Wilson: his death via honeymoon nookie. It had all been [[Played for Laughs]]... at least until Torrie tried to [[You Killed My Father|get revenge for her father's death]] by- what else?- [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen|defeating Dawn Marie in a professional wrestling match]]. When Dawn Marie showed up for their "Stepmother Versus Stepdaughter" match in ''mourner's clothing'' and close to tears it felt like the punchline to a different, much less funny joke.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* Multiple instances of this in ''[[FATAL]]'', including being the victim of an eternal orgasm spell and failing a saving throw if your anus or vagina is stretched too far.

** [[Memetic Mutation|REALISTIC!]]

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' treats this seriously because it is a very real danger for the hero, who has a weak heart that can fail from too much excitement and/or physical exertion. Usually he's able to keep calm enough to avoid any problems, but at least one h-scene is cut short due to him coming ''extremely'' close to having a heart attack.

* This is a frequent outcome of a human having sex with a monster or angel in ''[[Monster Girl Quest]]''. The human may die of exhaustion, die from having their energy drained out (particularly common when the nonhuman partner is a succubus) or be eaten alive.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''Dangerously Chloe'' started with Teddy accidentally getting into a demonic pact on a girlfriend, which led to summoning of certain young lady previously seen in ''[[Eerie Cuties]]''. So if they'll do it, the contract will be fulfilled on the demons' side, thus Teddy gets to die and be dragged to Hell. Later they found out that killing him won't require Chloe to actually do anything else - apparently, their link made Teddy vulnerable to being drained by her, circumventing her control over process; when another succubus "tasted" him a little, he didn't notice the drain at all.Unfortunately, they discovered the problem during "[[Practice Kiss|kissing lessons]]" (to get a girlfriend on his own and void the contract, he needs to know what to do, right?). Of course, [[Cosmic Plaything|that still being "Teddy-bear"]], almost dying wasn't enough, so ''on top of'' it this incident sent him headlong into yet another trouble.

** Also, a succubus without much practice of self control while excited is bound to "go wild" and messily kill a common soft mortal, no matter what her intentions were before - angels and demons are made of tougher stuff (Zachuriel at the end of an... unofficial meeting with Pandora was shown in a happily bewildered daze and covered in scratches, but no lasting damage), but demon boys are terrified of the succubi due to exaggerated rumors of this behavior, and angels usually are not an option due to the whole eternal enmity thing.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==