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This may lead to [[Dying Alone]], if taken to its logical extreme.
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== [[Anime]]
* Roy Fokker's death in ''[[Macross]]''. After coming back from a mission where his fighter got shot up, he spends a quiet night at his girlfriend's place strumming his guitar... then keels over, revealing bloody wounds in his back. Possibly a [[Stupid Sacrifice]] since the injuries weren't severe enough to debilitate him—he might have lived if he'd gotten immediate treatment.
** This incident is referenced and the trope subverted in ''[[Macross Frontier]]'', where Ozma Lee goes to Ranka's concert while seriously wounded and collapses - but he's rushed to the hospital and survives.
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* In the [[Gaunt's Ghosts]] novel ''Blood Pact'', the reader is led to believe that Ayatani Zweil is dying of cancer this way. He isn't: {{spoiler|Dorden is}}.
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* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky". Dr. McCoy learns that he's suffering from a disease called xenopolycythemia which will kill him in one year. When he tells Kirk about it he asks him to keep it to himself so he'll be most effective in his job in the time left.
* Professor Arturo on ''[[Sliders]]'' had an incurable disease which will kill him in a number of months, but didn't want anyone to know.
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* President Laura Roslin spends most of the first season of the remake of ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' hiding the fact that she has terminal breast cancer from the fleet at large. Then, after the news broke, and a miracle cured her, it came out at Baltar's trial that she was hiding a relapse.
* During the early part of season 7 of ''[[The X-Files]]'', Mulder is hospitalized for unusual brain activity. At the end of the three-episode arc, it's implied he made a full recovery. In reality, he did not and is dying from an "undiagnosable condition." He hides it from everyone, including the audience. It's not until he goes missing in season 8 that anyone finds out. And how do Scully and Skinner find out? Doggett has the manhunt team bring in his ''family headstone'' from North Carolina, which Mulder had recently changed to include his own name,
** Given how hard it was for him to deal with Scully's illness and its terminal diagnosis back in season 4-5, it's no surprise he wanted to spare her that suffering.
* In the last season of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', Odo conceals from Kira (with whom he's recently gotten together after many seasons of pining) the fact that he's got the disease that's infected his entire species. Slightly subverted in that Kira is actually perfectly aware what's going on; she just doesn't let on because she respects Odo's reasons for not telling her.
* ''[[Firefly]]'': [[Word of God]] says this is why {{spoiler|Inara}} joined Serenity.
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* [[Bill Hicks]] never told anyone but his doctors that he had cancer until he died from it, just weeks after his last live performance.
* One version of the death of Turkish Sultan Murad I at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 is that he was killed in his tent before or during the battle by a Serb pretending to defect, and asked his entourage to make sure the news didn't get out to his army. Unfortunately for colourful historical tales, there are other versions in which he is killed fighting during the battle or even afterwards.
* Freddie Mercury kept his AIDS diagnosis secret within [[Queen]] and a few close friends, not
* Pete Postlethwaite allegedly ''averted'' this trope on the set of ''[[Inception]]'', telling [[Cillian Murphy]] that he was dying.
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