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Sometimes the race will be trying to save themselves. This might lead to [[Only You Can Repopulate My Race]]. If they accept their fate, they may want to [[Fling a Light Into The Future]].
If the race is reduced to just a single individual, that is the [[Last of His Kind]], not this trope. But then again maybe [[There Is Another]], too. See also [[
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* [[John Varley]]'s ''Millenium''. The future human race can't reproduce because their DNA has been damaged by pollution. This also appears in the [[Film of the Book]].
* ''[[The Alchemy of Stone (Literature)|The Alchemy of Stone]]'' by Ekaterina Sedia. Mattie's quest is to save an ancient race.
* The alien race that the AIs have contact with in [[Arthur C. Clarke (Creator)]]'s ''Sunstorm''.
* In an early [[Discworld]] book, one troll mentions that they were a dying race. This is not mentioned in later books.
** It's suggested that vampires ''not'' wanting to become this trope is a major motivation for the foundation of [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampires|the Uberwald Temperance League]]. With human technology and civilization on the ascent, they know it's their only chance.
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* ''[[Babylon Five]]'' - Several examples:
** The Minbari - fewer are born with each generation and the greatest of their souls are no longer found among them, for {{spoiler|their souls are being reborn into humans (a large plot point in the series)}}.
*** We later get a full explanation for this: {{spoiler|The Minbari were, at one point, introduced to a [[Half
** The Narn and the Centauri are both said to be dying races according to Kosh. However, this is more philosophical than literal - Kosh meant that both were trapped in a cycle of revenge and fixated on each other's deaths to their own detriment, and were therefore (from a Vorlon point of view) on the path to eventual destruction. Both the Narn and Centauri are in fact populous and relatively vital.
** The Hyach are a more literal example; though there are still quite a few of them around, their genome is slowly collapsing due to having become dependent on a counterpart species that is no longer around {{spoiler|because the Hyach killed them all}}.
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