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== Literature ==
* In the book ''[[The True Meaning of Smekday]]'' (yes), the book ends with a newspaper clipping reporting the main character's death. It's actually a
* The final chapter of ''[[The World According To Garp]]'' by John Irving.
* ''[[Watership Down]]''
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* Dumas' Vicomte Of Braggelone, probably better known to English-speakers as [[The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)|The Man in the Iron Mask]], ends with a greatly aged D'Artagnan getting blown up by a cannonball.
* Jon Cleary used this in at least two novels, ''The Golden Sabre'' and ''High Road to China''. The prologue to ''High Road'' already established this would happen, as the story is stated to be [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|based on an unpublished memoir by the male lead]], titled ''An Adventure''. The epilogue's final sentence, after describing how he was found dead shortly after his wife's death, is, "The adventure was finally over."
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