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* ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' - Sydney Carton's switching places with Charles Darnay with one of the most memorable final lines in English literature, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."
* ''[[The Black Cauldron]]'' - The undead-creating cauldron in the book can only be destroyed by a living person willingly crawling into it, shattering the cauldron and killing themselves. In the Disney film (very) loosely based on the book, they manage to [[Disney Death|bring back the one who made this sacrifice]].
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** {{spoiler|As one of Voldemort's Horcruxes, he had to die - but, due to his being a Horcrux of Voldemort, neither could die while the other lived. He existed in a state of limbo -- not alive, but not yet dead, and could choose to go either way.}}
* ''Deep Wizardry'', the second book in the ''[[Young Wizards]]'' series, features this as a major plot point. A magical song/play must be sung/performed or the ocean will be corrupted, and Nita volunteers to play the part which is [[Killed Off for Real]] at the end of it, a fact she doesn't realize until she's well and committed. The Shark King (who is supposed to eat her) sacrifices himself to prevent Evil from interfering, and is eaten by all the sharks in the ocean, getting her off the hook (no pun intended, since she's a fish at the time).
** [[Taxonomic Term Confusion|No, she's a whale.]]
** In fact the first book explains that defeating [[Satan|The Lone Power]] is perfectly possible but in '''every''' case Someone Has to Die (although sometimes it is in fact a different variation of [[Heroic Sacrifice]] involved, one death is inevitable when you oppose the Lone Power).
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