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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
** 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.
* In ''[[Dear]]'', Subaru's [[Evil Hand]] is painfully consuming him. He keeps quiet about it so Komomo wont worry.
* In ''[[Trigun]]'' when [[Badass Preacher|Wolfwood]] is mortally wounded in his battle with Chapel, he speaks briefly to Vash, then heads to an abandoned church to confess his sins. Vash is too busy angsting about his own duel with Caine the Longshot (who ended it via suicide) [[Distracted From Death|to notice the trail of blood droplets in his wake]].
* In ''[[Darker
** Also in ''[[Darker
* In ''[[Gundam Seed]]'', Rau le Creuset is very slowly dying [[Cloning Blues|because his cells are a good 30 years older than they should be]]. There are a number of scenes that show him self-medicating to deal with the pain, but the cause is not explained until [[The Reveal|The Big Damn Reveal]], as his condition is the root of his misanthropy and thus his desire to [[Taking You
* Kaiser in Season 3 of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]''. He wants one last amazing duel before his heart condition takes him down, and he shrugs off concern and support all season when anyone notices the pain he's in.
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Hiruluk keeps his fatal illness secret from Chopper. After getting [[Shoo the Dog]], though, Chopper learns the
** Also, Gol D. Roger seemed to conceal the fact he was dying from an incurable disease (the reason he turned himself in, simply to screw the World Government with his [[Famous Last Words]] for a long time.
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', {{spoiler|Itachi}} had a fatal illness.
* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'': {{spoiler|Loke, being a celestial spirit trapped in the human world, could not survive for an extended period, and the fact that he made it ''three years'' before he started dying just makes it that much more impressive. When he eventually reveals to Lucy that he's dying, she flips out and summons the Spirit King to revise Loke's sentence and save his life.}}
* In ''[[Shigofumi]]'' there was the story of an older man watching over a little girl named Mikawa (the same as the protagonist). The older man treated the girl nicely, but did not tell her that he was dying from a condition. He ultimately dies by pushing Mikawa out of the way of a bus, though he gets hit and dies.
== [[
* In ''[[Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'', Ironfist is dying from taking a [[Cranial Processing Unit|cerebro-seeking bullet to the head]] in an "[[Make It Look Like an Accident|accident]]", and having it slowly working its way closer and closer to its target and unable to be stopped. He hides it because he's assigned to what is a dream mission for him and doesn't want to be ruled unfit to serve it.
** {{spoiler|Prowl knew all along that Ironfist was doomed, and sent him on the mission ''because'' of it. The mission required someone to die, and Prowl intended Ironfist to be the sacrificial lamb.}}
* ''[[All
== [[Film]] ==
* One of the most famous movie examples is in ''[[
* Tony Stark in ''[[Iron Man (
* At the end of ''[[Once Upon a Time
* In ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'', Shaun's Mum doesn't let anyone see their zombie bite to avoid worrying anyone. This leads to the movie's biggest [[Tear Jerker]] when Shaun has to kill her when she turns.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Near the end of the ''[[Harry Potter (
* In ''[[Chalion|The Curse Of Chalion]]'', Cazaril has a supernatural tumor in his gut haunted by the ghost of the [[Complete Monster]] he killed with magic. He tries desperately to keep it under wraps, both for political reasons and so the girls he's trying to protect won't worry about him.
* In ''[[The Dogs of War]]'', {{spoiler|Mercenary leader "Cat" Shannon}} has been diagnosed with cancer.
* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' book ''Death Masks'', {{spoiler|Shiro}} exchanges himself to almost certain death for Harry. Harry learns via a letter that was arranged beforehand that his benefactor was already dying from cancer.
* In the [[
== [[Live
* ''[[Star Trek:
* Professor Arturo on ''[[Sliders]]'' had an incurable disease which will kill him in a number of months, but didn't want anyone to know.
*
* 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.
== [[Theater]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Proto Man from ''[[Mega Man (
* In ''[[
* Shinjiro Aragaki in ''[[Persona 3]]'' is slowly killing himself with power-inhibiting drugs. He refrains from mentioning his poor health to anyone, mostly because he's expecting one of two ''other'' things to kill him before the side effects of the drugs manage to do it, and because he thinks he deserves it. Even when it comes out that he was taking the suppressants, he waves off any concerns about the side effects, and only comes close to hinting how little time he has to the female protagonist in the last few stages of his Social Link.
** Also the Protagonist themselves go through this in [[Multiple Endings|the good ending]]. After perfoming a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], s/he is just living to meet up with everyone on graduation day, like they promised. However, everyone in SEES has [[Victory-Guided Amnesia|forgotten about what they've accomplished]], even if they haven't forgotten about you. Only one person remembers and she makes sure that you won't [[Dying Alone|die alone]]. Unless you're playing ''Portable'' with a [[New Game+]], then your preferred [[Love Interest]] can spend your last few seconds with you.
* Hanbe from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' hides his [[Incurable Cough of Death|tuberculosis]] from Hideyoshi and Mitsunari, who know he's ill, just not that it's terminal. If they were aware they'd probably either lose hope and abandon the conquest of Japan, or force him to stop being [[The Strategist]].
* Comes completely unexpected in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' with Naomi Hunter, who reveals it just after she disabled the implants that extended her life for the last couple of years, and dies within the next few minutes, having completed the last thing she needed to do.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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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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