Like You Were Dying/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character who's about to die decides to live life to the fullest.
 * Straight: Alice, who has a terminal disease, decides to spend her last few days seeing the world and experiencing it.
 * Exaggerated: Alice catches a cold, and, thinking she's going to die, goes on an extravagant spending spree.
 * Justified: Alice always talked about how she wanted to do these things.
 * Inverted:
 * Alice spends her last few days curled up in a ball, sobbing.
 * A cancer patient is about to live, he decides to lounge about for the rest of his life.
 * Subverted:
 * "I'm dying? I guess this is my last chance to travel the globe! To the Internet!"
 * She's not really dying, she's just living in such a manner.
 * Double Subverted: "Where I will buy plane tickets to everywhere!"
 * Parodied: Alice actually throws a little party when she finds out she has the disease.
 * Deconstructed: Alice's attempts to live life to the fullest are just a mask for her inability to cope with death.
 * Reconstructed: She copes with death by doing the things she loved in life, i.e. partying.
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: Alice doesn't change her daily routine when she learns the news.
 * Enforced: "Alice is dying! It's time for a vacation episode!"
 * Lampshaded: "You've really opened up in these last few days!"
 * Invoked: Alice lies to a friend that he's dying so he can get out of the house.
 * Defied: Alice, after much consideration, decides that it would probably be better for her loved ones if she just stayed around them until she died.
 * Discussed: "You're dying? Shouldn't you be off swimming with dolphins?"
 * Conversed: ???

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