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* ''OnePiece'': In the [[TheAlcatraz Enies Lobby]] Arc, Nico Robin tried to sacrifice herself to keep her crewmates from being arrested (and later executed) alongside her. When they risk their lives just to get within shouting distance of her and ask if she really wants to make a HeroicSacrifice, she breaks down and begs them to save her. Asskicking ensues.
** One step further. Luffy INSISTS that they save her first, then she can quit the crew if she wants to. So "we're going to complete this SuicideMission to save you, whether you want us to or not." THEN the crying starts.

When the hero is forced to make a [[HeroicSacrifice great sacrifice for the greater good]], just before he does he suddenly realizes "Wait, IDontWantToDie". It might be a ChosenOne wondering why he specifically has to be the one to die and nobody else. This scenario is usually used to show a very human side of the hero and also making the scene more dramatic. It is characterized by very unheroic responses and actions where he loses bravery, resolve, consideration of the greater good and sometimes dignity. It is likely that the hero will have to have someone help them calm down if he doesn't end up doing so himself to FaceDeathWithDignity. There's also the possibility that this will end up being his DespairEventHorizon and might try to ScrewDestiny by running away. Attempts to TakeAThirdOption don't usually work out. Though there is a possibility of a DeusExMachina to save the day, this [[YourMileageMayVary may or may not affect the impact of this scene.]]

* Desdemona in Shakespeare's ''{{Othello}}'' grovels when it's clear that Othello wants to kill her, as she begs "Kill me tomorrow, let me live tonight."

* ''The End'', a 1978 comedy about a terminally ill man named Sonny (Burt Reynolds) who intends to take his own life rather than die of the rare toxic blood disease he has been diagnosed with. After a number of (comically?) failed attempts, and encounters with people -- an inexperienced priest, his self-absorbed parents, his estranged daughter and ex-wife, and his girlfriend -- who don't seem to care (at least in his view), Sonny drives to a secluded beach and swims out to the middle of the ocean, planning to drown himself. While under water, his life flashes before his eyes and he finally realizes his purpose in life. He suddenly resurfaces and swims to shore, bargaining with God that, if he makes it to shore, he'll be a better man. Indeed, Sonny does make it to shore ... but only to discover that his "friend" Marlon (Dom {{DeLuise}}), a psychopath whom had helped him with his previous attempts to take his life, is waiting for him and intends to follow through with his promise to help him die. Sonny tries to reason with Marlon that he wants to live ... and seems to have succeeded when, as the two are walking to the road to go home, Marlon pulls out a large butcher knife. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" screams Sonny as he flees (the knife-wielding Marlon in pursuit) down the beach under the final credits ("Another Fine Mess" by Paul Williams).

* ''OnePiece'': In the [[TheAlcatraz Ennis Lobby]] Arc, Nico Robin tried to sacrifice herself to keep her crewmates from being arrested (and later executed) alongside her. When they risk their lives just to get within shouting distance of her and ask if she really wants to make a HeroicSacrifice, she breaks down and begs them to save her. Asskicking ensues.
** One step further. Luffy INSISTS that they save her first. Then she can quit the crew if she wants to. So "we're going to complete this SuicideMission to save you, whether you want us to or not." THEN the crying starts.

* Pengin from ''{{Katanagatari}}'', a [[ChildSoldier child]] {{ninja}}, is asked for his last words by the man who just shot him. Pengin cries that he doesn't want to die. His opponent calls him a pathetic coward and [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel shoves the gun in his mouth]].

* A deeply disturbing scene in ''The Monocled Mutineer'' (starring PaulMcGann as the titular character) shows the execution of a soldier who panicked and ran away from the field of battle. The young captain spent the night before his execution locked in a shed, stalking up and down and ranting variations on "I want to live". At dawn he was taken out, blindfolded and tied to a chair. He screamed all the way. He screamed while they were shooting him, too, and went on screaming until someone walked up and put a bullet in his head. The noises he made [[HellIsThatNoise didn't even sound human.]]

* Buffy in the first season's finale of ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has to face The Master and is prophesied to sacrifice herself to defeat him. She tells Giles, her Watcher, that she's [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday only sixteen]] and that she doesn't want to die.
* On ''{{Angel}}'', while the visions are eating Cordelia's brains, she gets one of these moments.

* In ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'', [[spoiler:when Harry learns that he is a Horcrux and must die if Voldemort is to be made vulnerable, he does not speak to Ron, Hermione, or Ginny as he heads to his death, because he knows that doing so might cause him to cave in and not go through with it.]]
* A varient in ''Cirque de Freak''. Darren doesn't have to die, but he ''really'' doesn't [[TearJerker want to fake his own death to abandon his family]]. Unfortunately, he has to do so or else, as a half-vampire, he runs the risk of accidentally killing his family or friends. At one point he asks Mr. Crepsley if there's any way he can just run away in the middle of the night. He's told he can not, because his family would never stop looking for him.

* VillainProtagonist Yagami Light of ''DeathNote'' doesn't do this, since he had no intention of hastening his own death by one moment, but after all his drama and posturing these ''are'' his final words. Completely without dignity.

* [[spoiler: Wolfwood]] in the ''{{Trigun}}'' anime is on the verge of GoingOutWithASmile when it suddenly occurs to him he wants to stay with his friends. For a brief moment he reacts as he always had in life, [[RageAtTheHeavens screaming about how unfair it was]] and finally breaks down as he accepts that his entire life he had followed the wrong path.

* Discussed in ''TalesOfTheAbyss'', when Luke discovers he's dying because the fonons that make up his body are separating. At first, he's terrified, but eventually goes on to FaceDeathWithDignity and ''might'' have made a HeroicSacrifice, depending on the player's interpretation of the ending.

* ''The End'', a 1978 comedy about a terminally ill man named Sonny (Burt Reynolds) who intends to take his own life rather than die of the rare toxic blood disease he has been diagnosed with. After a number of (comically?) failed attempts, and encounters with people -- an inexperienced priest, his self-absorbed parents, his estranged daughter and ex-wife, and his girlfriend -- who don't seem to care (at least in his view), Sonny drives to a secluded beach and swims out to the middle of the ocean, planning to drown himself. While under water, his life flashes before his eyes and he finally realizes his purpose in life. Upon realizes this, he suddenly resurfaces and swims to shore, bargaining with God that, if he makes it to shore, he'll be a better man. Indeed, Sonny does make it to shore ... but only to discover that his "friend" Marlon (Dom {{DeLuise}}), a psychopath whom had helped him with his previous attempts to take his life, is waiting for him and intends to follow through with his promise to help him die. Sonny tries to reason with Marlon that he wants to live ... and seems to have succeeded when, as the two are walking to the road to go home, Marlon pulls out a large butcher knife. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" screams Sonny as he flees (the knife-wielding Marlon in pursuit) down the beach under the final credits ("Another Fine Mess" by Paul Williams).

* ''The End'', a 1978 comedy about a terminally ill man named Sonny (Burt Reynolds) who intends to take his own life rather than die of the rare toxic blood disease he has been diagnosed with. After a number of (comically?) failed attempts, and encounters with people -- an inexperienced priest, his self-absorbed parents, his estranged daughter and ex-wife, and his girlfriend -- who don't seem to care, Sonny drives to a secluded beach and swims out to the middle of the ocean, planning to drown himself. While under water, his life flashes before his eyes and he finally realizes his purpose in life. Upon realizes this, he suddenly resurfaces and swims to shore, bargaining with God that, if he makes it to shore, he'll be a better man. Indeed, Sonny does make it to shore ... but only to discover that his "friend" Marlon (Dom {{DeLuise}}), a psychopath whom had helped him with his previous attempts to take his life, is waiting for him and intending to follow through. Sonny tries to reason with Marlon and seems to have succeeded when, as the two are walking to the road to go home, Marlon pulls out a large butcher knife. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" screams Sonny as he flees (the knife-wielding Marlon in pursuit) down the beach under the final credits ("Another Fine Mess" by Paul Williams).

* ''The End'', a 1978 comedy about a terminally ill man named Sonny (Burt Reynolds) who intends to take his own life rather than die of the rare toxic blood disease he has been diagnosed with. After a number of (comically?) failed attempts, and encounters with people -- an inexperienced priest, his self-absorbed parents, his estranged daughter and ex-wife, and his girlfriend -- who don't seem to care, Sonny drives to a secluded beach and swims out to the middle of the ocean, planning to drown himself. While under water, his life flashes before his eyes and he finally realizes his purpose in life. Upon realizes this, he suddenly resurfaces and swims to shore, bargaining with God that, if he makes it to shore, he'll be a better man. Indeed, Sonny does make it to shore ... but only to discover that his "friend" Marlon (Dom {{DeLuise}}), a psychopath whom had helped him with his previous attempts to take his life, is waiting for him and intending to follow through. Sonny tries to reason with Marlon and seems to have succeeded when, as the two are walking to the road to go home, Marlon pulls out a large butcher knife. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" screams Sonny as he flees (the knife-wielding Marlon in pursuit) down the beach under the final credits ("Another Fine Mess" by Glen Campbell).

* ''The End'', a 1978 comedy about a terminally ill man named Sonny (BurtReynolds) who intends to take his own life rather than die of the rare toxic blood disease he has been diagnosed with. After a number of (comically?) failed attempts, Sonny drives to a secluded beach and swims out to the middle of the ocean, planning to drown himself. While under water, his life flashes before his eyes and he finally realizes his purpose in life. Upon realizes this, he suddenly resurfaces and swims to shore, bargaining with God that, if he makes it to shore, he'll be a better man. Indeed, Sonny does make it to shore ... but only to discover that his "friend" Marlon (Dom {{DeLuise}}), a psychopath whom had helped him with his previous attempts to take his life, is waiting for him and intending to follow through. Sonny tries to reason with Marlon and seems to have succeeded when, as the two are walking to the road to go home, Marlon pulls out a large butcher knife. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" screams Sonny as he flees (with Marlon in pursuit) down the beach under the final credits ("Another Fine Mess" by Glen Campbell).

* ''FateStayNight'': In the Normal Ending of the Heaven's Feel route, Shirou's mind is already dead when he goes to destroy the HolyGrail. And his last thoughts were about how he doesn't want to do this and how he wants to live, even for one more day.

* ''FateStayNight'': In the Normal Ending of Heaven's Feel route Shirou's mind is already dead, when he goes to destroy HolyGrail. And his last thoughts were about how he doesn't want to do this and how he wants to live, even for one day.

* ''FateStayNight'': In the Normal Ending of Heaven's Feel route Shirou's mind is already dead, when he goes to destroy HolyGrail. And his last thoughts, was about how he doesn't want to do this and how he wants to live, even for a one day.

* ''Super StreetFighter [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV IV]]'' has an occurrence of this during the [[FightingYourFriend Rival Battle]] between [[FinalFight Guy]] and [[StreetFighterAlpha Rose]]. Rose (despite '''a)''' [[LateArrivalSpoiler being]] [[EnemyWithout the good half of]] [[BigBad Bison's]] [[EnemyWithout soul]], '''b)''' having failed on several previous occasions to kill Bison because [[IncorruptiblePurePureness their]] [[MadeOfEvil power]] [[NoSell is equal but opposite]], and '''c)''' acknowledging herself that she is merely TheObiWan to Ryu, the ''true'' character [[TheChosenOne destined to finally vanquish Bison]]) is [[JustForPun dead-set]] on stopping her mortal enemy, even if it requires [[TakingYouWithMe her going down with him]]. Guy, in a [[HistoryRepeats revisitation]] of ''Street Fighter Alpha 3'', is wholly devoted to stopping Rose from proceeding with what is essentially a suicide mission. He questions Rose's methodology with the words [[HeroicSacrifice "Being prepared to die in battle]] is not the same as [[SenselessSacrifice offering yourself to death willingly."]] Cue a very somber battle with [[ApologeticAttacker much reluctance from both sides]]. One of Rose's [[BossBanter remarks during the battle]] is this trope word for word, and when the two aren't beating the tar out of one another, Guy is constantly urging Rose to reconsider her plans.

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]" has the Doctor have this reaction again. Five words: I don't want to go.
*** A little harder to relate to, but the experience is actually close to the same--except a new Doctor will probably change his life a lot less.