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->'''Phoebe:''' Would you want to break a dying woman's heart? ''(fakes a cough)''\\
'''Chandler:''' Yes, she's dying... of a cough, apparently.
-->-- ''Series/{{Friends}}''
'''Chandler:''' Yes, she's dying... of a cough, apparently.
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'''Chandler:''' Yes, she's dying...
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--> -- [[http://www.avforums.com/threads/the-hollywood-rule-book.32262 "Hollywood Rule Book"]], Vanity Fair
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* Lampshaded and subverted in The True Meaning of Smekday.
-> I know when somebody usually coughs in a story it means they're gonna die, but the Chief had had that cough ever since I met him.
-> I know when somebody usually coughs in a story it means they're gonna die, but the Chief had had that cough ever since I met him.
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* Barely averted with [[spoiler: Tear]] in TalesOfTheAbyss. The cough, like several examples on this page, comes from poison, which in every other case (meaning the NPCs) plays this trope straight when they come on contact with the miasma. The first case is only averted because [[spoiler: a dying Ion takes Tear's poisoned fonons out of her body when his fonons dissipate]]. [[spoiler: Tear]] does play the trope straight when it comes to fainting, trying to cover it up, and pretending to be getting better. Overlaps with DefinitelyJustACold sometimes.
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* Legendary gunfighter Doc Holliday eventually died of tuberculosis. It's said that knowing he was terminal was what made him such a DeathSeeker in the first place. (Reportedly his last words were "This is funny." He'd always thought he'd die with his boots on but found himself dying in bed looking at his socks.) Accounts of his Incurable Cough Of Death can be found in the historically inaccurate (but still pretty cool) movie ''{{Tombstone}}'' or [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/doc.html here]].
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* Legendary gunfighter Doc Holliday eventually died of tuberculosis. It's said that knowing he was terminal was what made him such a DeathSeeker in the first place. (Reportedly his last words were "This is funny." He'd always thought he'd die with his boots on but found himself dying in bed looking at his socks.) Accounts of his Incurable Cough Of Death can be found in the historically inaccurate (but still pretty cool) movie ''{{Tombstone}}'' ''Film/{{Tombstone}}'' or [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/doc.html here]].
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This is usually accompanied by [[HighPressureBlood nasty amounts]] of BloodFromTheMouth which is always a bad sign, even when there's no plausible reason for it, and may also involve collapsing. The character will probably try to hide it and will usually succeed until they actually pass out, no matter how ridiculously obvious it is. For some reason the character rarely visits a doctor after fainting/coughing blood/generally feeling like shit, no matter when the story takes place, possibly because of the RuleOfDrama. A character that goes outside in the rain or snow will often die, because he/she didn't "get out of those wet clothes fast enough". This trope is almost always carried out by the IllGirl or LittlestCancerPatient.
In Western literature the trope was heavily influenced by the prevalence of tuberculosis, an infectious disease considered by many historians to be the greatest killer in human history - yes, even greater than malaria or plague. The symptoms of tuberculosis (also known as consumption, phthisis, TB, or the White Death) are identical to those of the Incurable Cough Of Death, but death would usually come far more slowly for the TB patient, at least in RealLife. It's hard to say whether pneumonia influenced the trope or not, since pneumonia wasn't always differentiated from tuberculosis in the old days: the rapidity of death sounds more like pneumonia than TB, but then again all lung diseases back then were considered a form of tuberculosis - yes, even lung cancer, which wasn't even recognized as a separate disease until the end of the 19th century.
In {{anime}} this is likely inspired by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okita_Soji Okita Souji]], the famed [[TheShinsengumi Shinsengumi]] captain, who reportedly started coughing up blood due to tuberculosis before passing out during the Ikeda-ya Incident; he was unaware he had the disease until that moment. It's often said that he died 11 days later, [[NotSoInvincibleAfterAll creating the tragic image of a young warrior who defeated all opponents, only to fall to illness at the moment of his greatest triumph.]] It seems that most people fail to notice that two similar dates are four years apart due to the RuleOfDrama.
In Western literature the trope was heavily influenced by the prevalence of tuberculosis, an infectious disease considered by many historians to be the greatest killer in human history - yes, even greater than malaria or plague. The symptoms of tuberculosis (also known as consumption, phthisis, TB, or the White Death) are identical to those of the Incurable Cough Of Death, but death would usually come far more slowly for the TB patient, at least in RealLife. It's hard to say whether pneumonia influenced the trope or not, since pneumonia wasn't always differentiated from tuberculosis in the old days: the rapidity of death sounds more like pneumonia than TB, but then again all lung diseases back then were considered a form of tuberculosis - yes, even lung cancer, which wasn't even recognized as a separate disease until the end of the 19th century.
In {{anime}} this is likely inspired by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okita_Soji Okita Souji]], the famed [[TheShinsengumi Shinsengumi]] captain, who reportedly started coughing up blood due to tuberculosis before passing out during the Ikeda-ya Incident; he was unaware he had the disease until that moment. It's often said that he died 11 days later, [[NotSoInvincibleAfterAll creating the tragic image of a young warrior who defeated all opponents, only to fall to illness at the moment of his greatest triumph.]] It seems that most people fail to notice that two similar dates are four years apart due to the RuleOfDrama.
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This is usually accompanied by [[HighPressureBlood nasty amounts]] of BloodFromTheMouth which is always a bad sign, even when there's no plausible reason for it, and may it. May also involve collapsing. The character will probably try to hide it and will usually succeed until they actually pass out, no matter how ridiculously obvious it is. For some reason the character rarely visits a doctor after fainting/coughing blood/generally feeling like shit, no matter when the story takes place, possibly because of the RuleOfDrama. A character that goes outside in the rain or snow will often die, because he/she didn't "get out of those wet clothes fast enough". out. This trope is almost always carried out by the IllGirl or the LittlestCancerPatient.
In Western literature the trope was heavily influenced by the prevalence of tuberculosis, an infectious disease considered by many historians to be the greatest killer in human history - yes, even greater than malaria or plague. The symptoms of tuberculosis (also known as consumption, phthisis, TB, or the White Death) are identical to those of the Incurable Cough Of Death, but death would usually come far more slowly for the TB patient, at least in RealLife. It's hard to say whether pneumonia influenced the trope or not, since pneumonia wasn't always differentiated from tuberculosis in the old days: the rapidity of death sounds more like pneumonia than TB, but then again all lung diseases back then were considered a form of tuberculosis - yes, even lung cancer, which wasn't even recognized as a separate disease until the end of the 19th century. \n\nIn {{anime}} this is likely inspired by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okita_Soji Okita Souji]], the famed [[TheShinsengumi Shinsengumi]] captain, who reportedly started coughing up blood due to tuberculosis before passing out during the Ikeda-ya Incident; he was unaware he had the disease until that moment. It's often said that he died 11 days later, [[NotSoInvincibleAfterAll creating the tragic image of a young warrior who defeated all opponents, only to fall to illness at the moment of his greatest triumph.]] It seems that most people fail to notice that two similar dates are four years apart due to the RuleOfDrama.\n
In Western literature the trope was heavily influenced by the prevalence of tuberculosis, an infectious disease considered by many historians to be the greatest killer in human history - yes, even greater than malaria or plague. The symptoms of tuberculosis (also known as consumption, phthisis, TB, or the White Death) are identical to those of the Incurable Cough Of Death, but death would usually come far more slowly for the TB patient, at least in RealLife.
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Of course, in real life, people cough all the time from non-life-threatening causes, but those generally don't make for interesting stories. Think of this trope as the medical variant of ChekhovsGun: if someone coughs in the first act, they better be dead by the third. Ironically, Chekhov himself died of tuberculosis, which he contracted sometime in 1884, finally succumbing to it in 1904, after a good twenty years that are widely considered his most productive period as a writer. Note that Chekhov being a doctor had little to do with his unusually long lifespan after diagnosis: before streptomycin, there was no known effective treatment or cure for TB.
However, it should be noted that there is an element of TruthInTelevision to this, as it is not uncommon for terminally ill people to lose their swallowing reflex in their final days/hours, leading to the phenomenon known as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_rattle Death Rattle]].
However, it should be noted that there is an element of TruthInTelevision to this, as it is not uncommon for terminally ill people to lose their swallowing reflex in their final days/hours, leading to the phenomenon known as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_rattle Death Rattle]].
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Of course, in real life, people cough all the time from non-life-threatening causes, but those generally don't make for interesting stories. Think of this trope as the medical variant of ChekhovsGun: if someone coughs in the first act, they better be dead by the third. Ironically, [[note]]Ironically, Chekhov himself died of tuberculosis, which he contracted sometime in 1884, finally succumbing to it in 1904, after a good twenty years that are widely considered his most productive period as a writer. Note that Chekhov being a doctor had little to do with his unusually long lifespan after diagnosis: before streptomycin, there was no known effective treatment or cure for TB.
However, it should be noted that there is an element of TruthInTelevision to this, as it is not uncommon for terminally ill people to lose their swallowing reflex in their final days/hours, leading to the phenomenon known as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_rattle Death Rattle]].
TB.[[/note]]
However, it should be noted that there is an element of TruthInTelevision to this, as it is not uncommon for terminally ill people to lose their swallowing reflex in their final days/hours, leading to the phenomenon known as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_rattle Death Rattle]].
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* Subverted in ''BreakingBad'', where the protagonist has been diagnosed with lung cancer at the start of the show and becomes a drug dealer to make money fast for his family. In the episode where he starts coughing badly and even spitting up blood, he assumes he has little time left, kicking off a rather dark take on LikeYouWereDying. It turns out it's just a reaction he's having to the medication, and the blood is from a slight tear due to all the coughing--he's actually in remission.
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* Subverted in ''BreakingBad'', ''Series/BreakingBad'', where the protagonist has been diagnosed with lung cancer at the start of the show and becomes a drug dealer to make money fast for his family. In the episode where he starts coughing badly and even spitting up blood, he assumes he has little time left, kicking off a rather dark take on LikeYouWereDying. It turns out it's just a reaction he's having to the medication, and the blood is from a slight tear due to all the coughing--he's actually in remission.
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* ''VisualNovel/{{Hakuoki}}'' follows TheShinsengumi from before the Ikedaya Incident up to the end of the group, and thus unsurprisingly shows the onset of Okita Souji's tuberculosis and his struggle to cope with his illness. In most routes, it takes him out of the story entirely right around the onset of the Boshin War just like his real-life counterpart; in his own route (and in the anime adaptation) he manages to stick around a little longer thanks to [[spoiler:becoming a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent fury]]]], but his cough doesn't entirely go away and even his ending implies that he's living on borrowed time.
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* ''VisualNovel/{{Hakuoki}}'' ''VisualNovel/{{Hakuouki}}'' follows TheShinsengumi from before the Ikedaya Incident up to the end of the group, and thus unsurprisingly shows the onset of Okita Souji's tuberculosis and his struggle to cope with his illness. In most routes, it takes him out of the story entirely right around the onset of the Boshin War just like his real-life counterpart; in his own route (and in the anime adaptation) he manages to stick around a little longer thanks to [[spoiler:becoming a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent fury]]]], but his cough doesn't entirely go away and even his ending implies that he's living on borrowed time.
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* ''VisualNovel/{{Hakuoki}}'' follows TheShinsengumi from before the Ikedaya Incident up to the end of the group, and thus unsurprisingly shows the onset of Okita Souji's tuberculosis and his struggle to cope with his illness. In most routes, it takes him out of the story entirely right around the onset of the Boshin War just like his real-life counterpart; in his own route he manages to stick around a little longer thanks to [[spoiler:becoming a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent fury]]]], but his cough doesn't entirely go away and even his ending implies that he's living on borrowed time.
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* ''VisualNovel/{{Hakuoki}}'' follows TheShinsengumi from before the Ikedaya Incident up to the end of the group, and thus unsurprisingly shows the onset of Okita Souji's tuberculosis and his struggle to cope with his illness. In most routes, it takes him out of the story entirely right around the onset of the Boshin War just like his real-life counterpart; in his own route (and in the anime adaptation) he manages to stick around a little longer thanks to [[spoiler:becoming a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent fury]]]], but his cough doesn't entirely go away and even his ending implies that he's living on borrowed time.
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* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' has few of these too. Most of them happen during serious fights (and usually only bad guy dies afterwards), but there's actual example too. Since Okita Sougo's (character loosely based on Okita Souji) death would've completely messed up the comedic nature of the series, mangaka twisted things a bit- instead of him having tuberculosis, it was his sister Mitsuba who suffered from illness... and she lasts for about two episodes. Among fans the arc is considered to be a big TearJerker.
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* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' has few of these too. Most of them happen during serious fights (and usually only bad guy dies afterwards), but there's actual example too. Since killing off Okita Sougo's (character Sougo (a character loosely based on Okita Souji) death would've completely messed up the comedic nature of the series, mangaka twisted things a bit- bit - instead of him Sougo having tuberculosis, it was his sister Mitsuba who suffered from illness... and she lasts for about two episodes. Among fans the arc is considered to be a big TearJerker.
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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead:'' [[spoiler:A boy named Patrick develops this in the season 4 premiere, and by the end of the episode he's dead and re-animated. This results in a walker outbreak inside the prison, necessitating a massive quarantine.]]
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* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' has few of these too. Most of them happen during serious fights (and usually only bad guy dies afterwards), but there's actual example too. Since Okita Sougo's (character loosely based on Okita Souji) death would've completely messed up the comedic nature of the series, mangaka twisted things a bit- instead of him having tuberculosis, it was his sister Mitsuba who suffered from illness... and she lasts for about two episodes. Among fans the arc is considered to be a big {{Tearjerker}}.
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* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' has few of these too. Most of them happen during serious fights (and usually only bad guy dies afterwards), but there's actual example too. Since Okita Sougo's (character loosely based on Okita Souji) death would've completely messed up the comedic nature of the series, mangaka twisted things a bit- instead of him having tuberculosis, it was his sister Mitsuba who suffered from illness... and she lasts for about two episodes. Among fans the arc is considered to be a big {{Tearjerker}}.TearJerker.
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** In ''After Story'', [[spoiler: One of the first signs that her and Tomoya's daughter Ushio inherited the already [[DeathByChildbirth deceased Nagisa]]'s illness is that she beings coughing profusely. It gets nastier for both father and daughter. [[RetCon And then better]].]]
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** Hayate also appears to have this, though [[spoiler:he dies by other means.]]
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* Averted in ''{{Gravitation}}'' where Yuki [[spoiler:not only collapses as he also coughs blood in the process but manages to survive. The illness is blamed on stress (it ''might'' be ulcers) and just as mysteriously as it appeared it disappears. Ironically or not Shuichi assumes that his lover is about to die.]]
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* Averted in ''{{Gravitation}}'' where Yuki [[spoiler:not only collapses as he also coughs blood in the process but manages to survive. The illness is blamed on stress (it ''might'' be ulcers) and just as mysteriously as it appeared it disappears. Ironically or not Shuichi assumes that his lover is about to die.]]die]].
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* In the ''Manga/BlackButler'' manga during the [[CircusOfFear circus]] arc Ciel is dragged off to the makeshift outdoor baths by his roommate. During this time it's winter and the water the circus performers are washing up with isn't heated (it's VictorianLondon, after all). After being soaked with the freezing water we later see Ciel coughing, eventually falling into an aggressive coughing fit that causes him to vomit. We find out that he [[spoiler: suffers from asthma, a disease he inherited from his mother. The cold had aggravated it.]] He gets better, though.
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* In the ''Manga/BlackButler'' manga during the [[CircusOfFear circus]] {{circus|OfFear}} arc Ciel is dragged off to the makeshift outdoor baths by his roommate. During this time it's winter and the water the circus performers are washing up with isn't heated (it's VictorianLondon, after all). After being soaked with the freezing water we later see Ciel coughing, eventually falling into an aggressive coughing fit that causes him to vomit. We find out that he [[spoiler: suffers from asthma, a disease he inherited from his mother. The cold had aggravated it.]] He gets better, though.
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* Averted in ''MyNeighborTotoro'', where Satsuki and Mei's mother clearly ''is'' in a clinic for tuberculosis but [[spoiler:gets cured and sent home (after a few scares) in the end.]]
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* ''UchuuSenkanYamato'' had TheCaptain Juzo Okita (a nod to Okita of TheShinsengumi mentioned above; a.k.a. Captain Avatar for ''StarBlazers'' fans) suffering from a worsening case of radiation poisoning as the series progressed. The practical effect in the series was demoting him to TheMentor in favor of HotBlooded [[TheHero Hero]] Susumu Kodai (Derek Wildstar), the "Acting Captain" to be.
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* Strangely averted in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', when it is revealed that [[TheQuestion Vic Sage]] knew he was dying of lung cancer since before the start of the series, but the only hint of that is him disapproving of his protégées smoking, and that is treated like a RunningGag more than anything. Of course, once the cat is out of the bag, his symptoms starts to show. ''[[{{Tearjerker}} Fast.]]''
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* Strangely averted in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', when it is revealed that [[TheQuestion Vic Sage]] knew he was dying of lung cancer since before the start of the series, but the only hint of that is him disapproving of his protégées smoking, and that is treated like a RunningGag more than anything. Of course, once the cat is out of the bag, his symptoms starts to show. ''[[{{Tearjerker}} ''[[TearJerker Fast.]]''
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* Joey in the WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries fanfic ''[[FanFic/DecksFallEveryoneDies Decks Fall]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6474469/1/Decks_Fall_Everyone_Dies Everyone Dies]]'' has this.
* Marty has one of these in [[FanFic/NoAntidote No Antidote]]
* In the little known [[http://forum.fanfiction.net/forum/WHOO_Kingdom_Hearts_RPG/80471/ WHOO!]] ''KingdomHearts'' RPG! The character Reeves seems to have contracted one. Trolololo
* Marty has one of these in [[FanFic/NoAntidote No Antidote]]
* In the little known [[http://forum.fanfiction.net/forum/WHOO_Kingdom_Hearts_RPG/80471/ WHOO!]] ''KingdomHearts'' RPG! The character Reeves seems to have contracted one. Trolololo
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* Another Western movie example: In the spirit of all the "beautiful young woman dying from tuberculosis" operas mentioned below, NicoleKidman's character Satine in ''MoulinRouge'' is also dying from tuberculosis. In a slight subversion, she doesn't know she's dying (even though it should be pretty frickin' obvious), because Harold (her boss and father figure) tells the doctor not to tell her so she can continue to perform.
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* Another Western movie example: In the spirit of all the "beautiful young woman dying from tuberculosis" operas mentioned below, NicoleKidman's character Satine in ''MoulinRouge'' ''Film/MoulinRouge'' is also dying from tuberculosis. In a slight subversion, she doesn't know she's dying (even though it should be pretty frickin' obvious), because Harold (her boss and father figure) tells the doctor not to tell her so she can continue to perform.
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* ''[[RevengeOfTheSith Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith]]'' (No [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]], although it went in more depth about it) Villainous General Grievous starts coughing as soon as he appears on-screen (Probably so that the audience notices he's not a robot although he looks like one). He'll die... shot.
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* Fantine in ''Les Miserables'', of tuberculosis exacerbated by a snowball (poor research on the part of Hugo and 19th-century Western "medicine"). Apparently she coughs after every word - which doesn't stop her from delivering lengthy speeches on how happy she will be to see her daughter again. In the book, it both plays straight and inverts ThePowerOfLove - she might be cured if her daughter is brought to her, but she dies of shock when these hopes are dashed by Javert. (Also, see Theater.)
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* Fantine in ''Les Miserables'', ''Literature/LesMiserables'', of tuberculosis exacerbated by a snowball (poor research on the part of Hugo and 19th-century Western "medicine"). Apparently she coughs after every word - which doesn't stop her from delivering lengthy speeches on how happy she will be to see her daughter again. In the book, it both plays straight and inverts ThePowerOfLove - she might be cured if her daughter is brought to her, but she dies of shock when these hopes are dashed by Javert. (Also, see Theater.)
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* In the story ''Laura and the Silver Wolf'', the heroine [[spoiler: who has leukemia]] begins to cough... and from then on, she wakes up exactly once and then [[spoiler: dies. But if we believe her, then she is forever in the Ice-Land and [[DiedHappilyEverAfter quite happy there. ]] ]]
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* [[DiscussedTrope Analyzed]] in a [[Series/SaturdayNightLive SNL]] [[http://snltranscripts.jt.org/08/08pcoughs.phtml sketch]] with Alec Baldwin, where he hawks DVD #72 in his instructional acting series: "First Coughs: Foreshadowing Your Character's Death." Actually provides a pretty good breakdown of the various ways it's commonly handled, including "Ignoring It," "It's Just a Cold," and "I Don't Need Any Damn Doctors." The Advanced lesson is "Coughing Into a Handkerchief, Seeing Blood in It, Looking Nervously Around, and Hiding it in Your Pocket".
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* Subverted in ''BreakingBad,'' where the protagonist has been diagnosed with lung cancer at the start of the show and becomes a drug dealer to make money fast for his family. In the episode where he starts coughing badly and even spitting up blood, he assumes he has little time left, kicking off a rather dark take on LikeYouWereDying. It turns out it's just a reaction he's having to the medication, and the blood is from a slight tear due to all the coughing--he's actually in remission.
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** While not Chris' counterpart, the series from which Dragon Knight adopted its footage, ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'' also contains one such character in Shuichi Kitaokao/Kamen Rider Zolda. In fact, its more or the less the main reason why he becomes involved in the Rider War as he wants to use the promised wish to grant himself immortality, thereby curing himself. By the end of the series, Shuichi decides to quit the Rider War deciding to enjoy what little time he has left. However, [[spoiler: he also begins to feel the need to take some personal responsibility over his role in allowing his ArchEnemy to become a Rider, and decides to fight him one last time. Before he gets the chance, however, he succumbs to his illness and dies. Even taking the ResetButton ending into account, there's no indication that things will turn out any better for Kitaoka, and worse, he'll probably never go through the CharacterDevelopment he did in the series and grow out of his JerkAss tendencies.]]
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** While not Chris' counterpart, the series from which Dragon Knight adopted its footage, ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'' also contains one such character in Shuichi Kitaokao/Kamen Rider Zolda. In fact, its more or the less the main reason why he becomes involved in the Rider War as he wants to use the promised wish to grant himself immortality, thereby curing himself. By the end of the series, Shuichi decides to quit the Rider War deciding to enjoy what little time he has left. However, [[spoiler: he also begins to feel the need to take some personal responsibility over his role in allowing his ArchEnemy to become a Rider, and decides to fight him one last time. Before he gets the chance, however, he succumbs to his illness and dies. Even taking the ResetButton ending into account, there's no indication that things will turn out any better for Kitaoka, and worse, he'll probably never go through the CharacterDevelopment he did in the series and grow out of his JerkAss {{Jerkass}} tendencies.]]
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* Mimì from Puccini's ''[[LaBoheme La Bohème]]'' is another operatic character who coughs and faints her way to a tear-jerking death scene. Mimi from ''Rent'' fares much better.
* Both of the above were based on real people (though Mimi very loosely so). What makes La Boheme even more depressing is that the real 'Rudolpho' also died of TB shortly after writing ''Episodes from the Artistic Life'', as did most of the main cast. (Except Mussetta... who saved up money to quit prostitution for good after 'Marcello' died, sailed away to start a new life in French Tunisia... only to be killed when her ship sank.)
* Both of the above were based on real people (though Mimi very loosely so). What makes La Boheme even more depressing is that the real 'Rudolpho' also died of TB shortly after writing ''Episodes from the Artistic Life'', as did most of the main cast. (Except Mussetta... who saved up money to quit prostitution for good after 'Marcello' died, sailed away to start a new life in French Tunisia... only to be killed when her ship sank.)
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* Mimì from Puccini's ''[[LaBoheme La Bohème]]'' ''Theatre/LaBoheme'' is another operatic character who coughs and faints her way to a tear-jerking death scene. Mimi from ''Rent'' ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'' fares much better.
* Both of the above were based on real people (though Mimi very loosely so). What makes La Boheme even more depressing is that the real'Rudolpho' 'Rodolfo' also died of TB shortly after writing ''Episodes from the Artistic Life'', as did most of the main cast. (Except Mussetta... Musetta... who saved up money to quit prostitution for good after 'Marcello' died, and sailed away to start a new life in French Tunisia... only to be killed when her ship sank.)
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* Double Subversion in Creator/MartinMcDonagh's play ''The Cripple of Inishmaan'': Cripple Billy, having a pronounced cough from the start of the play, produces a doctor's letter diagnosing him with TB, and is seen to die of it in a Hollywood motel room. [[spoiler: It turns out that he forged the letter so that Babbybobby, the boatman whose wife died of TB, would take him to Inishmore so that he could be in the film ''Man of Aran''. His "death scene" is actually him rehearsing his lines in his motel room.]] And then [[spoiler: after Billy returns to Inishmaan when, irony of ironies, it turns out that he ''has'' contracted TB after all, complete with BloodFromTheMouth.]] On a related note, the play is also a {{Deconstruction}} of BuryYourDisabled.
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* Double Subversion in Creator/MartinMcDonagh's play ''The Cripple of Inishmaan'': Cripple Billy, having a pronounced cough from the start of the play, produces a doctor's letter diagnosing him with TB, and is seen to die of it in a Hollywood motel room. [[spoiler: It turns out that he forged the letter so that Babbybobby, the boatman whose wife died of TB, would take him to Inishmore so that he could be in the film ''Man of Aran''. His "death scene" is actually him rehearsing his lines in his motel room.]] And then [[spoiler: after Billy returns to Inishmaan when, irony of ironies, it turns out that he ''has'' contracted TB after all, complete with BloodFromTheMouth.]] BloodFromTheMouth]]. On a related note, the play is also a {{Deconstruction}} of BuryYourDisabled.
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* A character in ''Videogame/IllusionOfGaia'' coughs when you first meet him. He turns out to be your opponent in a Russian Roulette-type game, which he was playing to earn money for his family, since he knew he was dying anyway.
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* A character in ''Videogame/IllusionOfGaia'' ''VideoGame/IllusionOfGaia'' coughs when you first meet him. He turns out to be your opponent in a Russian Roulette-type game, which he was playing to earn money for his family, since he knew he was dying anyway.
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* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' Juushirou Ukitake subverts the death aspect.. sorta, with a particularly terrible, bloody cough from an unnamed illness he's had from childhood. As a noble-ranked shinigami, he was born in Soul Society (the afterlife) but spirits are still capable of dying and even breathe. Usually, he's either laid up in bed or his activities will be interrupted by a violent coughing fit that will lead to him coughing up blood. Fans popularly conclude he has tuberculosis but the story itself has never confirmed the nature of the disease only that he obtained it in childhood and the shock of being diagnosed with it [[LockedIntoStrangeness turned his hair]] [[WhitehairedPRettyBoy white.]]
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* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' Juushirou Ukitake subverts the death aspect.. sorta, with a particularly terrible, bloody cough from an unnamed illness he's had from childhood. As a noble-ranked shinigami, he was born in Soul Society (the afterlife) but spirits are still capable of dying and even breathe. Usually, he's either laid up in bed or his activities will be interrupted by a violent coughing fit that will lead to him coughing up blood. Fans popularly conclude he has tuberculosis but the story itself has never confirmed the nature of the disease only that he obtained it in childhood and the shock of being diagnosed with it [[LockedIntoStrangeness turned his hair]] [[WhitehairedPRettyBoy [[DiseaseBleach white.]]
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* In ''AlienVsPredator'', Charles Bishop Weyland not only has a cough, but actually listens to a story about someone who died because they were in no physical shape to take on the challenges that they faced. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that he won't be walking off into the sunset at the end of this movie.
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* In ''AlienVsPredator'', ''Film/AlienVsPredator'', Charles Bishop Weyland not only has a cough, but actually listens to a story about someone who died because they were in no physical shape to take on the challenges that they faced. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that he won't be walking off into the sunset at the end of this movie.
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* Subverted by another real-life character played by KateWinslet, Juliet Hulme, in ''HeavenlyCreatures''. Juliet suffered from TB as a child, and her relapse as a teenager is signaled by one scene of her in school coughing slightly and then spurting a tasteful amount of blood on her text book. She spends months in hospital, [[spoiler: and helps her best friend Pauline murder Pauline's mother, after Juliet recovers]].
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* Subverted by another real-life character played by KateWinslet, Juliet Hulme, in ''HeavenlyCreatures''.''Film/HeavenlyCreatures''. Juliet suffered from TB as a child, and her relapse as a teenager is signaled by one scene of her in school coughing slightly and then spurting a tasteful amount of blood on her text book. She spends months in hospital, [[spoiler: and helps her best friend Pauline murder Pauline's mother, after Juliet recovers]].
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* In ''Thérèse'', Thérèse (soon to be St. Thérèse of Lisieux) develops a violent cough, complete with BloodFromTheMouth, which proves to be tuberculosis.
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* In ''Thérèse'', Thérèse (soon to be St. Thérèse of Lisieux) develops a violent cough, complete with BloodFromTheMouth, which proves to be tuberculosis. tuberculosis.
* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}''. The entire point of the story is that the titular dog-wolf hybrid had to help a dogsled team get medicine so that the diphtheria epidemic didn't kill most of the town's children. They are shown occasionally, growing weaker and often coughing weakly to get the point across, but Balto and the team make it in time to save them.
** However, consider that one of the symptoms of Diptheria actually ''is'' a Cough of death - this is a bit of [[ShownTheirWork showing their work]]. Especially since in real life, the dog-teams ''did'' make it in time.
* Also averted in ''TheSecretOfNIMH''. Timmy is bedridden and coughing because he has pneumonia, but we're led to believe by the end of the movie that he's getting better thanks to the medicine his mother gave him.
* The Van Dorts' servant Mayhew in ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'' has a nasty cough at the beginning of the film that the Van Dorts complain about. He later succumbs to whatever was causing it and falls over dead while driving them home. They don't even notice aside from the sudden lurching of the carriage. He then shows up in the Land of the Dead as a "new arrival".
* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}''. The entire point of the story is that the titular dog-wolf hybrid had to help a dogsled team get medicine so that the diphtheria epidemic didn't kill most of the town's children. They are shown occasionally, growing weaker and often coughing weakly to get the point across, but Balto and the team make it in time to save them.
** However, consider that one of the symptoms of Diptheria actually ''is'' a Cough of death - this is a bit of [[ShownTheirWork showing their work]]. Especially since in real life, the dog-teams ''did'' make it in time.
* Also averted in ''TheSecretOfNIMH''. Timmy is bedridden and coughing because he has pneumonia, but we're led to believe by the end of the movie that he's getting better thanks to the medicine his mother gave him.
* The Van Dorts' servant Mayhew in ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'' has a nasty cough at the beginning of the film that the Van Dorts complain about. He later succumbs to whatever was causing it and falls over dead while driving them home. They don't even notice aside from the sudden lurching of the carriage. He then shows up in the Land of the Dead as a "new arrival".
* ''VideoGame/BrothersATaleOfTwoSons'' begins with the father having contracted what [[ZeroPunctuation Ben Croshaw]] described as "the old classic unspecific-persistent-cough disease", and the two protagonists are tasked with finding a cure before he dies of it.
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* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}''. The entire point of the story is that the titular dog-wolf hybrid had to help a dogsled team get medicine so that the diphtheria epidemic didn't kill most of the town's children. They are shown occasionally, growing weaker and often coughing weakly to get the point across, but Balto and the team make it in time to save them.
** However, consider that one of the symptoms of Diptheria actually ''is'' a Cough of death - this is a bit of [[ShownTheirWork showing their work]]. Especially since in real life, the dog-teams ''did'' make it in time.
* Averted in ''TheSecretOfNIMH''. Timmy is bedridden and coughing because he has pneumonia, but we're led to believe by the end of the movie that he's getting better thanks to the medicine his mother gave him.
** However, consider that one of the symptoms of Diptheria actually ''is'' a Cough of death - this is a bit of [[ShownTheirWork showing their work]]. Especially since in real life, the dog-teams ''did'' make it in time.
* Averted in ''TheSecretOfNIMH''. Timmy is bedridden and coughing because he has pneumonia, but we're led to believe by the end of the movie that he's getting better thanks to the medicine his mother gave him.
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* [[OCStandIn Melania Black]] in ''Frachise/HarryPotter'' fanfic ''Fanfic/IfThemsTheRules'' starts coughing up blood when the poison runs it course and she starts to die.
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* Parodied in ''Anime/{{Macross 7}} Encore'', where Millia comes down with a cough and assumes that she is dying. She begins doing a whole bunch of [[HilarityEnsues really silly things]] that she wants to do before she finally gives out. At the end of the episode, Dr. Chiba finally states his diagnosis: a cold. The cough was never anything more than a cough, but Millia overreacted due to apparently never having gotten sick before.
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* Played frighteningly straight with ''KamenRiderDragonKnight'' as [[WellDoneSonGuy Chris Ramirez]], aka Kamen Rider Sting, had asthma severe enough to get him discharged from the Marines. It probably wasn't lethal on its own, but when given the offer to be a Kamen Rider he JumpedAtTheCall. After that he really aggravated his condition with all the superheroics, ignoring every warning sign along the way. At least when he went out, it was by HeroicSacrifice instead of illness (and due to being a FateWorseThanDeath that turned out to be not really, he was able to come back in the epilogue ''and'' the heroes now could use {{Phlebotinum}} to cure him).
** While not Chris' counterpart, the series from which Dragon Knight adopted its footage, ''KamenRiderRyuki'' also contains one such character in Shuichi Kitaokao/Kamen Rider Zolda. In fact, its more or the less the main reason why he becomes involved in the Rider War as he wants to use the promised wish to grant himself immortality, thereby curing himself. By the end of the series, Shuichi decides to quit the Rider War deciding to enjoy what little time he has left. However, [[spoiler: he also begins to feel the need to take some personal responsibility over his role in allowing his ArchEnemy to become a Rider, and decides to fight him one last time. Before he gets the chance, however, he succumbs to his illness and dies. Even taking the ResetButton ending into account, there's no indication that things will turn out any better for Kitaoka, and worse, he'll probably never go through the CharacterDevelopment he did in the series and grow out of his JerkAss tendencies.]]
** While not Chris' counterpart, the series from which Dragon Knight adopted its footage, ''KamenRiderRyuki'' also contains one such character in Shuichi Kitaokao/Kamen Rider Zolda. In fact, its more or the less the main reason why he becomes involved in the Rider War as he wants to use the promised wish to grant himself immortality, thereby curing himself. By the end of the series, Shuichi decides to quit the Rider War deciding to enjoy what little time he has left. However, [[spoiler: he also begins to feel the need to take some personal responsibility over his role in allowing his ArchEnemy to become a Rider, and decides to fight him one last time. Before he gets the chance, however, he succumbs to his illness and dies. Even taking the ResetButton ending into account, there's no indication that things will turn out any better for Kitaoka, and worse, he'll probably never go through the CharacterDevelopment he did in the series and grow out of his JerkAss tendencies.]]
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* Played frighteningly straight with ''KamenRiderDragonKnight'' ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'' as [[WellDoneSonGuy Chris Ramirez]], aka Kamen Rider Sting, had asthma severe enough to get him discharged from the Marines. It probably wasn't lethal on its own, but when given the offer to be a Kamen Rider he JumpedAtTheCall. After that he really aggravated his condition with all the superheroics, ignoring every warning sign along the way. At least when he went out, it was by HeroicSacrifice instead of illness (and due to being a FateWorseThanDeath that turned out to be not really, he was able to come back in the epilogue ''and'' the heroes now could use {{Phlebotinum}} to cure him).
** While not Chris' counterpart, the series from which Dragon Knight adopted its footage,''KamenRiderRyuki'' ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'' also contains one such character in Shuichi Kitaokao/Kamen Rider Zolda. In fact, its more or the less the main reason why he becomes involved in the Rider War as he wants to use the promised wish to grant himself immortality, thereby curing himself. By the end of the series, Shuichi decides to quit the Rider War deciding to enjoy what little time he has left. However, [[spoiler: he also begins to feel the need to take some personal responsibility over his role in allowing his ArchEnemy to become a Rider, and decides to fight him one last time. Before he gets the chance, however, he succumbs to his illness and dies. Even taking the ResetButton ending into account, there's no indication that things will turn out any better for Kitaoka, and worse, he'll probably never go through the CharacterDevelopment he did in the series and grow out of his JerkAss tendencies.]]
** While not Chris' counterpart, the series from which Dragon Knight adopted its footage,
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** In ''After Story'', [[spoiler: Oone of the first signs that her and Tomoya's daughter Ushio inherited the already [[DeathByChildbirth deceased Nagisa]]'s illness is that she beings coughing profusely. It gets nastier for both father and daughter. [[RetCon And then better]].]]
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** In ''After Story'', [[spoiler: Oone One of the first signs that her and Tomoya's daughter Ushio inherited the already [[DeathByChildbirth deceased Nagisa]]'s illness is that she beings coughing profusely. It gets nastier for both father and daughter. [[RetCon And then better]].]]
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* In ''Literature/InfernalDevices'' Jem's illness that causes him to cough up blood. No cure has been found.
**[[spoiler: That is until the epilogue where a cure was finally found.]]
**[[spoiler: That is until the epilogue where a cure was finally found.]]
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* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': This is a symptom shown by the submarine crew exposed to an unshielded nuclear weapon in "Enemy Below".
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* ''TheRoad'' has the father coughing through most of the movie. His sickness is never identified, but he does die from it.
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* At about the halfway point of the AndyKaufman BioPic ''ManOnTheMoon'', Andy coughs while explaining his latest stunt to his agent; later, during a comedy club appearance where he invites audience members to touch a cyst on his neck, he has a brief fit of coughing. These are both given no heed and the latter could be seen as AllPartOfTheShow...but in the next scene Andy breaks the news to his confidantes that he has a rare form of lung cancer, which he eventually dies from. Notable because this is actually TruthInTelevision: Andy developed a cough in the mid-1970s, and he sometimes can be seen coughing in interviews. In 1983, when it became too frequent and pronounced to ignore, he took his loved ones' advice, went to a doctor, and learned that he was dying; the cough was a side effect of his illness.
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* At about the halfway point of the AndyKaufman Creator/AndyKaufman BioPic ''ManOnTheMoon'', ''Film/ManOnTheMoon'', Andy coughs while explaining his latest stunt to his agent; later, during a comedy club appearance where he invites audience members to touch a cyst on his neck, he has a brief fit of coughing. These are both given no heed and the latter could be seen as AllPartOfTheShow...but in the next scene Andy breaks the news to his confidantes that he has a rare form of lung cancer, which he eventually dies from. Notable because this is actually TruthInTelevision: Andy developed a cough in the mid-1970s, and he sometimes can be seen coughing in interviews. In 1983, when it became too frequent and pronounced to ignore, he took his loved ones' advice, went to a doctor, and learned that he was dying; the cough was a side effect of his illness.
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* On ''{{The 4400}}'', people whose bodies don't accept promicin get one of these before death.
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* On ''{{The 4400}}'', ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'', people whose bodies don't accept promicin get one of these before death.
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', a flashback with [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4639 Lil' E's mother coughing]] grimly sets up how he came to be alone.
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', a flashback with [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4639 Lil' E's mother coughing]] grimly sets up how he came to be alone. She's desperate enough to appeal to his father for help -- and he's {{Satan}}.
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* In Creator/CharlotteBronte's ''Literature/JaneEyre,'' the minor character [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth Helen Burns]] expires from consumption during a typhus epidemic.
** Helen's illness is portrayed quire realistically, though- her general weakness is emphasised far more than the coughing, and she is well enough to more or less function for a long time. Helen, in both character and condition, was based on one of the older Bronte siblings (who died before getting famous), so Charlotte knew what she was talking about.
** Helen's illness is portrayed quire realistically, though- her general weakness is emphasised far more than the coughing, and she is well enough to more or less function for a long time. Helen, in both character and condition, was based on one of the older Bronte siblings (who died before getting famous), so Charlotte knew what she was talking about.
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* In Creator/CharlotteBronte's ''Literature/JaneEyre,'' the minor character [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth Helen Burns]] expires from consumption during a typhus epidemic.
**epidemic. Helen's illness is portrayed quire realistically, though- her though. Her general weakness is emphasised far more than the coughing, and she is well enough to more or less function for a long time. Helen, in both character and condition, was based on one of the older Bronte siblings (who died before getting famous), so Charlotte knew what she was talking about.
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*** Ruby Gillis, Anne's childhood friend, does die of "galloping consumption" in the same novel, but there is no issue of this being hinted with a cough, as Anne does not learn of Ruby's illness until just before the latter's death.
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* In an episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Phoebe poses as Chandler's dying wife to help him get an engagement ring for Monica. She coughs rather casually to emphasize the point that the other man is going to "break a dying woman's heart," prompting Chandler to explain that she's dying "of a cough, apparently."
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* In an episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Phoebe poses as Chandler's dying wife to help him get an engagement ring for Monica. She coughs rather casually to emphasize the point that the other man is going to "break a dying woman's heart," heart", prompting Chandler to explain that she's dying "of a cough, apparently."apparently".
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* TheTudors features this at one point, where King Henry's sister starts coughing up blood and dies within an episode. Henry mildly lampshades the suddenness by telling her husband (who is his best friend) in an accusatory tone that "You didn't even tell me she was sick." Unfortunately, somewhat TruthInTelevision... the real life woman died of tuberculosis, which was quite common at the time and manifested primarily as coughing and later hemorrhaging from the lungs.
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* TheTudors ''Series/TheTudors'' features this at one point, where King Henry's sister starts coughing up blood and dies within an episode. Henry mildly lampshades the suddenness by telling her husband (who is his best friend) in an accusatory tone that "You didn't even tell me she was sick." Unfortunately, somewhat TruthInTelevision... the real life woman died of tuberculosis, which was quite common at the time and manifested primarily as coughing and later hemorrhaging from the lungs.
* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'':
** Captain Keene is a very old and frail man who coughs and wheezes all the time. It's clear that he's dying. He dies after the obligatory two thirds of the episode, but interestingly enough, he died when his ship ''Justinian'' was attacked and sunk by the French.
** Finch, a lower-deck character, feels dizzy and feverish, and falls down from a mast. He coughs while his fellow sailors try to nurse him back to health, and even Mr Hornblower is invested in his recovery. It doesn't help that they are on half-rations and his fever doesn't disappear. He dies very soon.
* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'':
** Captain Keene is a very old and frail man who coughs and wheezes all the time. It's clear that he's dying. He dies after the obligatory two thirds of the episode, but interestingly enough, he died when his ship ''Justinian'' was attacked and sunk by the French.
** Finch, a lower-deck character, feels dizzy and feverish, and falls down from a mast. He coughs while his fellow sailors try to nurse him back to health, and even Mr Hornblower is invested in his recovery. It doesn't help that they are on half-rations and his fever doesn't disappear. He dies very soon.
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