This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
This sounds quite similar to Victorian Novel Disease. Maybe they should be considered the same. --Document N
I think Incurable Cough of Death could be rolled into this. -osh
Black Humor: It's not really the same thing at all.
Black Humor: The writer mentioned missed a fairly big flaw in his plan, namely that they could just fire him anyway and have the character die from the disease.