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''There's so much more to know
''I guess I'll die another day
''It's not my time to go''
|[[Madonna]]|"Die Another Day"}}
On the brink of death, a character is told that he must go on because it is not his time to die.
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]]
* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'': This occurs in Season 2, when Kenshin is fighting [[Big Bad]] Shishio. He is laying on the ground, bleeding, thinking to himself, "Is this the end?" when he has a flashback/vision/visiting from his master, who tells him "Live on, Kenshin!" In the manga, this takes the form of a [[Loved Ones Montage]].
* In ''[[Ikki Tousen|Dragon Destiny]]'', a comatose and almost dead Hakufu is visited by the spirit of her [[Disappeared Dad]], who more or less delivers this line.
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* Subverted in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. After being attacked by the homunculi and losing consciousness, Al finds himself floating in a white void. A soft voice calls out to him, telling him that it's too soon for him to die. It's Pride, and he can't very well let Al go until after he's served his purpose.
== [[
* In
* ''[[Strangers in Paradise
== [[Fan
* Kirk, after his death, says this to Spock in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Slash Fic]] ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090422205400/http://liquidfic.net/publicrelations.html
* ''[[DC Nation]]'' plays with this. While [[The Sandman|The Endless]] are part of the universe, Death herself is very enigmatic about when it is and isn't someone's time. She ''does'' have a pair of "agents" working on her behalf, though. Jonah Hex is her "bounty hunter," collecting the souls that are overdue, and the [[Original Character]] Ash (the ghost of a 9-11 firefighter) is sent to protect people who shouldn't die yet.
* In ''[[One Small Kindness]]'': "For a genius, you can be, like, ''really'' dense. Why do you think? You came pretty damn close, but ''you aren't dead''."
* ''[[Half Life: Full Life Consequences|Half Life: Full Life Consequences 2]]''. "These birds dont have to see Gordon Freeman yet. its not time."
* ''[[Night of the Seance]]'', it's depends on the condition of the body upon death. Since her case beyond help regarding who's willing to care for her, Agnetha wasn't allowed to return. Knowing this, she simply accept death, but not everyone was willing to let her go.
* The narrator in the [[Spice Girls]] Fic ''[https://www.wattpad.com/637459221-astral-journey-it's-complicated-part-1 Astral Journey: It's Complicated]'' enters her astral form for the first time after the disaster on the football pitch. She sees a priest given her [[Last Rites (trope)| late rites]], believing she had died. Luckily, she was allowed to returned as it wasn't her time but gains some new abilities.
== [[Film]] ==
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* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children]]'', Cloud falls unconscious, when he hears the voices of his deceased friends, Aerith and Zack, tell him that he doesn't quite belong with them yet.
* Parodied in the [[Saturday Night Live]] spin-off film ''Superstar'', a TV falls and crushes Mary's dog. Her Subconcious Version of God then tells him it's not his time and to go back, ultimately having to throw a treat back into the world of the living to get him to leave.
*
▲** Joe Pendleton is in a traffic accident and finds himself in the afterlife. He's informed that an inexperienced angel plucked his soul out of his body too soon, before he actually died. Unfortunately his body has already been cremated, so he has to return to life in the body of someone else who has died. A remake of the 1941 film ''Here Comes Mr. Jordan''.
** Which was also remade as the Chris Rock vehicle ''Down to Earth''.
* ''[[The Frighteners]]'': The main character is delighted to be dead so he can be reunited with his wife, but she tells him to go back and enjoy being alive.
* ''[[Last Action Hero]]''. Death tells
* ''[[Revenge of the Fallen]]'': The heaven Sam goes to has Autobots in it for some reason.
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'', Harry is nearly killed by Voldemort. Next we see him, he's in some kind of surreal void, and is greeted by Dumbledore, who has been dead since the last book. Ultimately, he asks Harry whether he wants to go back to the living; an opportunity Harry takes, of course.
* Several [[The Big Guy|Badger]] [[Large and In Charge|Lords]] in ''[[Redwall]]'', notably Sunflash the Mace.
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' book ''[[
* At the end of ''[[Old Kingdom|Sabriel]]'' by Garth Nix, the titular protagonist is seemingly killed, but upon entering Death she is greeted by the spirits of her ancestors, who tell her that as she is the last of the family line, she must go back until there is another.
* ''[[Bionicle]]'': in ''Inferno'' when the Toa Inika reach the Chamber of Death, Matoro offers himself as a sacrifice so that the rest can continue further. He is promptly killed ... and then revived, as the voice that commanded the sacrifice says it wasn't his time and lets the group continue on. The whole trial in the chamber was a test of courage.
* The protagonist of ''[[Shadowmancer]]'' is ripped up by a demon and sees a vision of Riathamus (who's clearly the Abrahamic god), and given the choice of going to Heaven or being resurrected- he chooses to go back and save his friends.
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', Gandalf falls exhausted after defeating the Balrog atop the mountain. But his bosses don't let him die, for he still has work to do.
* Happens to Apollus in ''[[Warriors Of Cumorah]]'' after he drowns in the creepy time-travel river. His [[Dead Little Sister]] tells him to hold his breath, his time is not yet. Probably a good thing.
* In the [[Mercedes Lackey]] ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' book ''Arrow's Fall'', the ghost of Talia's dead friend {{spoiler|Kris}} appears to her after she has been thrown back in her cell after a session of [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]. When Talia tells him about her plans to [[Driven to Suicide|kill herself to escape further torture]], he tells her that it isn't her time yet. {{spoiler|And indeed, she is rescued in the middle of her suicide attempt.}} This also happens to Herald Vanyel in ''The Last Herald Mage'' trilogy, when the Shadow Lover (the Angel of Death) gives him a choice.
== [[Live
* ''[[The X-Files]]'' gives these to both main characters. Scully gets hers in the season two episode "One Breath" (in which her deceased father gives her the trope line). Mulder gets his in the season three episode "The Blessing Way" (where ''his'' deceased father and Deep Throat both give him the line).
* Hiro Nakamura in the latest season of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''.
*
* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''. "Tapestry".
{{quote|'''Q:''' You will go on with your life with a real heart.
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* In the episode "The Fisher King: Part II" of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', Elle talks with her dead father after being shot by an unsub. Somewhat bizarrely, the entire conversation (which is interspersed throughout the episode) takes place on the team's jet, which is slowly being emptied of furniture. At the end of the episode, Elle returns to life, and her father promises they'll see each other again, when it's her time.
* On ''[[Sliders]]'', the gang landed on a world where people were conducting afterlife experiments by killing and resuscitating people. When they did it to Quinn, he saw his father who told him it was not his time.
* ''[[Golden Girls]]'':
** Happens to Sofia
* Inferred in a funny variant
* One of [[Jeff Foxworthy]]'s bits has him speculating that catch and release must be like a near death experience for fish.
{{quote|'''Jeff''': "I saw all my dead relatives, and God was there. He was wearing a flannel shirt and said, 'It is not yet your time, go back.'"}}
* In one episode of ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'', a rather morbid kid obsessed with death is mistaken for a wandering spirit ready to enter the afterlife by some sort of spiritual attendant (played by Gilbert Godfrey). He eventually gets thrown into the afterlife...and is promptly thrown out. He explains that "they" said he wasn't dead yet. The kid seems to take that to heart and is noticably less morbid at the end of the episode.
* Mac gets told this, though not verbatim, by his late wife Claire in the ''[[CSI: NY]]'' episode
▲* Inferred in a funny variant in an episode of ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' where Rose has a scare from overworking herself-we don't see it, but she tells everyone about it afterward.
== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
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* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', the Val'kyr in the Death Knight starting area actually say this word-for-word when they resurrect you. The [[Big Bad|Lich King]] also says it during an Alliance quest if the player gets too close to him (though he kills you anyway, [[For the Evulz|just for lulz]]).
** The text box for Spirit Healers also says this. Seems like everything in Azeroth that's not [[Everything Trying to Kill You|trying to kill you]] is trying just as hard to keep you alive.
* ''[[Fable
{{quote|'''Theresa:''' Death is not your destiny today, little Sparrow.}}
* Kratos chooses his time in ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]''. Even the Judges of the Underworld admit that Kratos did not belong in the afterlife yet.
{{quote|'''King Radamthas:''' Your future is cloaked in shadow. The world of the afterlife is not yet ready for you.}}
* In ''[[Might and Magic]] VI'', a figure that appears to be a cross between [[The Grim Reaper]] and the boatman to the underworld says this to the player if the entire party is knocked out, killed or [[Deader Than Dead|eradicated]].
{{quote|"Though eternity lies before thee, thy work in the land of the living is not yet done. Return, brave ones. I am certain we will meet again... Ho ho ho ho..."}}
* ''[[The Darkness (video game)|The Darkness]]'': The titular Darkness {{spoiler|tries to stop Jackie Estacado from committing suicide over his dead girlfriend, Jenny}}.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[The
* In ''[[The Phoenix Requiem]]'', Jonas inverts in chapter 2 (his late wife appears to him while he is unconscious urges him to move on, but he refuses), and then played straight in chapter 20.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* In ''[[The Randomverse]]'', Superman has one of these, meeting up with Captain America.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Batman: The Brave
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' in the episode "Bart Gets Hit by a Car
* Played with in ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]''. Charlie dies, and, well... he's explicitly told that it ''was'' his time, but he refuses to stay dead. He breaks the rules and [[Back From the Dead|sends himself back]], and when asked for an explanation, he lies, "What can I say? It wasn't my time."
* In the ''[[Watership Down]]'' TV series, Campion's
* In season 2 of ''[[Wakfu]]'' it's revealed that Sadlygrove's ascension to the afterlife was halted by Rubilax. This example is less benevolent than most since Rubilax had ulterior motives.
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[[Category:Death Tropes]]
[[Category:Stock Phrases]]
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