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'''Jim Moriarty:''' That's what people '''DO'''!|''[[Sherlock]]'', "The Great Game"}}

 

 

See also [[We Are as Mayflies]], [[Don't Fear the Reaper]], [[Not Afraid to Die]] and [[Life Will Kill You]]. Compare [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]. Do not confuse with [[Kill'Em All]].

 

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* ''[[Fight Club]]'': "On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."

* Briefly comes up in ''[[The Whole Nine Yards]]''. Bruce Willis has a chat with Matthew Perry about the high suicide-rate of dentists, unaware that Perry knows that he's a former Hitman With A Heart, and is scared shitless about it. Perry comments that "I may hate my life, but I do NOT want to die." to which Bruce responds "Well, get used to it, 'cuz you're gonna." Beat. Perry looks terrified. "...we're all gonna die someday, y'know?"

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* In ''[[Sharpe]]'s Sword'', Patrick Harper is wounded in battle and asks the priest if he is going to die. The Priest says yes he is, and Harper says he wishes he'd married his long-term partner Ramona with whom he has a child out of wedlock. The Priest then does the quick version of wedding vows with Harper lying on the ground (do you? do you? you're married) and then tells Harper to stand up and kiss the bride. When Harper says he thought he was going to die, the priest responds:

* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', as a counterpart to the latin ''Memento mori'', there is the [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Valyrian]] saying ''Valar morghulis'', meaning "All men must die".

* Comes up in ''[[Troy Rising]]'' when Comet has a chat with one of the local AI's about the way they deliberately suppress part of their hyperintelligence to avoid knowing things they know they ''mustn't'' know. Such as, for example, the way that each and every one of their human friends will eventually die. Thinking about stuff like that would be too depressing even for an AI, and talking about it would depress the ''humans'' even more.

* [[Harry Potter]]'s ability to acknowledge this is what often gives him the advantage in his confrontations against Voldemort.

 

* ''[[Sherlock]]'', between Sherlock and Moriarty, as per page quote.

** In ''Forest of the Dead'':

** In ''A Christmas Carol'':

'''Amy:''' Not today. }}

* Lister in ''[[Red Dwarf]]''

** The holographic (and dead) Rimmer travels back in time to warn his living counterpart:

'''Past Rimmer''': Will I really? }}

* In ''[[The Iron Giant]]'' when Hogarth is trying to console the Giant after the deer incident.

'''Hogarth:''' I don't know. You're made of metal, but you have feelings, and you think about things, and that means you have a soul. And souls don't die. }}

* In an episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' a historian from the 26th century comes to watch what happens during a crisis on the Enterprise back in the 24th. Picard wants him to tell him what the future says happened, but he's reluctant.

'''Rasmussen''': Everyone dies, Captain. It's just a question of when. All of those people down there died years before I was born. All of you up here, as well. So you see, I can't get quite as worked up as you over the fate of some colonists who, for me, have been dead a very, very long time. }}

* From [[Game of Thrones]]:

'''Arya Stark''': [[Badass Boast|Not today.]] }}

 

== Music ==

* The TUNNG song Hands ends three of its six verses with variations on the phrase

* The Flaming Lips song "Do You Realize" contains the line, "Do you realize....that everyone you know someday will die."

* [[Avenged Sevenfold]]'s song "A Little Piece of Heaven" has the recurring line "Cause everybody's gotta die sometime."

* [[Lana Del Rey]]'s single Born To Die (and the whole damn album of the same name, too) is based around this trope. [[Captain Obvious|Makes sense if you think about it...]]

 

== Stand-Up Comedy ==

* Louis CK had a bit about his six year old daughter asking him questions about the sun.

"Well no, someday it will explode... (off the horrified look on her face) Don't worry, sweetie, this won't happen until after you and everyone you know have been dead for a very long time." }}

 

* Wynne, the elderly Enchanter in ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' (and the oldest member of your Player Party, except the golem Shale), is very acutely aware of her own mortality... and embraces it. It doesn't mean that she will just drop dead on you anytime soon, however. It is much later revealed that she is practically [[Living on Borrowed Time]], having already effectively died long ago but kept alive via a benevolent case of [[Demonic Possession]].

* Acknowledged in [[Grim Fandango]].

* "Memento Mori" (remember you will die) is the [[Arc Words]] of ''[[Persona 3]]''. {{spoiler|Appropriate, given the game ends with the protagonist's death.}}

 

* From ''[[A Softer World]]'' strip: ''"I miss my little girl, I never said goodbye." Oh, suck it up. She won't live forever either.''

* From '''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'':

'''[[Hive Mind|Fleetmind]]''': Eventually, yes. Are you saying you know when? }}

* ''[[Unsounded]]'', [http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch03/ch03_47.html Ch. 3, p. 47]:

'''Sette:''' Well, everyone's got to ''do'' it, ain't they? But you'll go cacklin'-crackers thinking of it always. }}

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Played for dark humour in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' when Bart and Lisa are trapped in a terrible summer camp.

'''Bart:''' So did I. }}

* In one [[Bugs Bunny]] short, Bugs says "Never take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive!"

'''Arthur''': *sad nod* }}

 

 

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