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* [[Award Bait Song]]: John Mayer's "Say" over the credits.

* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: Edward first discovers something is wrong when he coughs up blood into a handkerchief.

* [[Contemplate Our Navels]]: Both men spend quite a bit of the movie wondering about the meaning of life and death.

* [[Deadly Distant Finale]]: At the end {{spoiler|Edward, who beat cancer and lived another thirty years after that, has his ashes put on a mountaintop (illegally) next to those of Carter.}}

* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: The two men die. This should be obvious from the title alone.

* [[Good Adultery, Bad Adultery]]: Edward encourages Carter to sleep with an attractive woman because he's only been with his wife and will never have another chance. Subverted, since he doesn't go through with it. Plus, Edward only suggested it to remind Carter how much he misses his wife.

* [[Hollywood Atheist]]: Edward's bitter, cynical, extremely unpleasant to most people he interacts with, and claims to envy people with faith even if he doesn't understand what it's about. Yeah, classic stereotypical example.

* [[Hollywood Skydiving]]: As the ''[[Myth Busters]]'' showed, they would not be able to hear each other as they were diving. But both have a tandem partner, averting a usual cliche.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: Edward tried to fire Matt once before, for the "Oprah Incident."

* [[Odd Friendship]] / [[Salt and Pepper]]: The latter is played with since Carter is the much more level headed of the two

* {{spoiler|[[Posthumous Narration]]: A twist, in that though the opening narration implies otherwise, ''Carter'' is the one who dies first.}}

* [[Running Gag]]: Edward's love of Kopi Luwak, a coffee that's made from coffee beans that have been [[Foreign Queasine|digested and pooped out by a cat civet]].