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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"It's easy to find something worth dying for. [[Armor-Piercing Question|Do you have anything worth living for?]]"''
|'''Lorien''', ''[[Babylon 5]]''}}
This trope can be the end of a [[Death Seeker]]'s search in the non-lethal fashion, or simply someone deciding that it's time to stop merely plodding through life and actually ''live''.
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Compare [[World of Cardboard Speech]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* [[Played for Laughs]] in a current TV ad from Phillips
== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
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* In the ''[[X 1999]]'' anime, Kamui falls [[Achilles in His Tent|catatonic]] after [[Sacrificial Lamb|Kotori]]'s death, but Subaru manages to convince him that his life is still worth living, if only to save Kamui's best-friend-turned-evil (and Kotori's brother) Fuuma. Much later in the series, Kakyo and Subaru's ghostly sister do this for Subaru himself (who falls catatonic after {{spoiler|killing Seishirou}}), just in time for him to save Kamui ''again''.
* In ''[[Claymore]]'', when Teresa is sentenced to be executed, she refuses because she has found something worth living for in Claire.
* One of the major aesops in ''[[Monster (
* ''[[
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[[And the Adventure Continues...|Always, somewhere]],
[[Knight in Sour Armor|someone is fighting for you]]
[[Ret-Gone|As long as you remember her]],
[[Bittersweet Ending|you're not alone]]. }}
* While it was his aim to survive in the first place, Guts from ''[[Berserk]]'' stopped wasting his life away for the purpose of revenge and stopped acting so sociopathic when he realized how the end of his life would ultimately mean the end of Casca, his ill-fated lover, as well. His current mission is trying to [[Find the Cure|find a cure]] for her insanity.
* Because of this, by Episode 24 of ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In [[Y:
== [[Fanfic]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[
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'''Simon:''' ''I mean to say.''
'''Kaylee:''' ''To Hell with this. '''I'm gonna live!''''' }}
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]: [[Red Zone Cuba]]''. Doctor Forrester gets beaten into a pulp by a mob enforcer at the beginning of the episode. Later, he appears to die in his hospital bed, only to suddenly wake up and declare that he has too much to live for. He climbs out of his hospital bed, stumbles out of the room... and immediately gets beaten again by the same mob enforcer.
* In ''[[Igor]]'', Scampers is an immortal rabbit who really wants to die, and makes several humorous suicide attempts throughout the movie. At the very end, he freaks out when he briefly thinks he might actually die, because he [[The Power of Friendship|finally made some friends]].
* In the ''[[Harry Potter and
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'''Harry''': Because I have something worth living for. }}
== [[Literature]] ==
* Happens in ''[[Inheritance Cycle
== [[Live
* ''[[
** After Sheridan's {{spoiler|death at Z'Ha'Dum}}, he is challenged by [[The Obi-Wan|Lorien]] to find something worth ''living'' for, rather than merely finding something worth ''dying'' for. For Sheridan, it turns out that the one thing in his life worth living for is {{spoiler|[[Lady of War|Delenn]]}}. This helps him persevere towards the end of the fourth season after {{spoiler|he is captured and subjected to [[Cold-Blooded Torture]].}}
* Cain's arc in ''[[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]]''. He was dead-set on killing Zero to avenge his family, then dying. But then his former boss appeals to his honorable streak and forces him to promise that he'll guard DG {{spoiler|the lost princess of Oz}} "at any cost." Cain is still [[Lawful Good]] enough to not turn down the Mystic Man's [[Last Request]]. Between this and learning {{spoiler|his family survived}}, he's got enough [[Heroic Willpower]] to fend off a bullet and hypothermia.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S10
** Discussed at the end of "The Doctor's Daughter". The Doctor spends the episode coming to terms with the presence of [[Opposite
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'''Doctor:''' Oh, there's always something worth living for, Martha. }}
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* In ''[[Tsukihime]]'', {{spoiler|Shiki lets himself be killed by vampire Yumizuka Satsuki due to his promise to her earlier}} in Akiha's route unless you answered earlier in a fashion that makes him realize he has to live for Akiha.
* Solid Snake decides this in a long speech at the end of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' after learning he has been infected with a disease that he thinks will suddenly stop his heart without warning. The difference is that instead of being a [[Death Seeker]], Snake has focused entirely on survival rather than on enjoying life.
** Then played touchingly straight at the end of [[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]. Where Snake knows his time is drawing near, but is now content to see out peacefully in retirement.
* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (
* ''[[Clannad (
* [[Girls Love]] [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Akai Ito]]'': Oh Sakuya... {{spoiler|She's what happens when a [[Time Abyss]] is subjected to [[Humans Are
* In ''[[Mass Effect]] 2'', Thane Krios if female [[Player Character|Shepard]] decides to romance him. Which is difficult, since his [[Death Seeker]] status was due to terminal illness...
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