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** {{spoiler|Subverted in the case of Lyra and Will, when they decide they cannot remain together only to die in ten years.}}
* In ''[[Dracula (novel)|Dracula]]'', vampirism is considered inevitably a [[Fate Worse Than Death]]. Which makes it a rather disquieting [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] when Jonathan Harker, faced with the possibility that his [[Vampire Refugee]] wife [[Darkest Hour|might not be saved]], resolves that, no matter what, she ''will not meet that fate alone''.
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* Also from [[Robert Heinlein]], in ''[[I Will Fear No Evil]]'', the spirits of two main characters desperately cling to the mind of a third, still living, person. {{spoiler|At the end, with the death of the final person, all three spirits willfully cross over together.}}
* The fifth ''[[Aubrey-Maturin]]'' novel, ''Desolation Island'' featured amoung other convicts being shipped to Australia, one Salubrity Boswell, whose husband had been sent there already, so she decided to follow him, first by getting his brother to get her pregnant so she wouldn't be hung, then by assaulting the judge who sentenced him. Stephen Maturin calls her "a female worthier of a nobler age."
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