History Main / LastWishMarriage

* Cameron on ''Series/{{House}}'' once married a man that had been diagnosed as terminally ill with thyroid cancer. He died six months after their wedding.

* In the Season 2 finale of ''Series/RobinHood'', Robin and Marian start to say their wedding vows when they think they're going to die together, but are rescued before they can finish them. Near the end of the episode, [[spoiler:they finish them as Marian is dying for real]].

* Played with in ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney''. In case 2, Alita Tiala wants to marry Wocky Kitaki because she knew that his heart could stop at any time, and when that happened, Wocky's fortune would become hers.

* Joseph Plunkett and Grace Evelyn Gifford got married mere hours before his execution in 1916. Part of the Easter Uprising (1916), Joseph was sentenced to death by execution squad. Grace and Joseph were married in his jail cell about seven hours before his death. [[TheMourningAfter Grace never married again.]] The event is memorialized in the song "Grace" by Music/TheDubliners.

* The US Government considers this with survivor benefits. For the spouse to qualify for survivor benefits, the marriage must have lasted at least nine months or produced a child, unless the death was in the line of duty.
* In 2013 a lesbian couple was allowed to get married before the date that gay marriages were to be officially allowed in their state, because one of the two had breast cancer and would be dead before the new law would go into effect. [[http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/11/28/Lesbian-couple-has-first-legal-same-sex-marriage-in-Illinois/UPI-65551385653496/ Read more here.]]

* Music/EazyE was very sick with AIDS, and died just two weeks after his wedding in 1995 to his longtime girlfriend Tomika Woods, at the age of 30.
* In the United States, a number of women have actually married death row inmates. This is legal as the 1987 Supreme Court decision [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_v._Safley Turney vs. Safley]] ruled prison inmates have the legal right to marry.

* In a variation, some [[TakingTheVeil religious orders]] specify in their rule that a novice can be permitted to make their final vows -- becoming a full and permanent member of the community -- earlier than usual if they are terminally ill or otherwise in danger of death.

* Eazy-E was very sick with AIDS, and died just two weeks after his wedding in 1995 to his longtime girlfriend Tomika Woods, at the age of 30.

Marriage is a big decision and one that normally shouldn't be entered into lightly because it will affect you for the rest of your life. However, long-term planning goes out the window when YourDaysAreNumbered. Many people want to get married at some point [[MustNotDieAVirgin (or experience sex and their morals demand marriage)]], and when you're terminally ill or [[WartimeWedding headed off into a battle]] where your odds of survival are slim, it's now or never. A result of this is that the people in question may have never even considered marrying each other under any other circumstances, but instead are just two terminally ill patients who don't want to die alone or an otherwise platonic friend volunteering to marry the patient because he/she is not long for this world. Alternatively, the two could have been/still are HighSchoolSweethearts. If it's done really cheesy, it will end with a LastKiss. See also TrueLoveIsAKink.