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When the DeathSeeker character actually answers this with great confidence or profound sense of hope, expect a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming moment]] and/or [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome an awesome moment]].

--> [[DesolationShot Don't forget]].
--> [[AndTheAdventureContinues Always, somewhere]],

--> [[RetGone As long as you remember her]],
--> [[BittersweetEnding you're not alone]].
** At the same time, the anime shows Homura is willing to sacrifice herself for Madoka's sake. And in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' [[spoiler: Homura decides that Madoka isn't just worth living and dying for - she's also worth becoming a monster for.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'', Scampers is an immortal rabbit with no will to live, and makes several humorous suicide attempts throughout the movie. Eventually he finds friends, which gives him the will to start living. However, this causes problems when he's on a ConveyorBeltOfDoom towards a raging inferno and is concerned that this might actually kill him. It's more fortunate for Igor and Brian that he wanted to live; otherwise, he might have just elected to go through with it.

* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'': PlayedForLaughs. Our heroes are making their climactic LastStand against a horde of [[TheDreaded Reavers]], and nobody really expects to survive. Kaylee's reason to fight and live? [[TheMedic Simon]] [[CantSpitItOut finally]] admitted that he is interested in her.

* The infamous ending of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' centers around the main character deciding that his life is worth living. Interesting in that he doesn't find a ''reason'' so much as he learns to accept his own limitations.

-->'''Kaylee:''' To Hell with this. '''I'm gonna live!'''

** Ace had tons of angst over his bloodline, to the point that the question he spent his entire life searching the answer for... was whether he not he deserved to be born. Living only stopped being so painful when [[spoiler:Sabo]], Luffy, and eventually, the Whitebeard Pirates, came into his life, having finally found the answer to that one question. [[spoiler:All of it only serves to make his death more tragic.]]

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'': When Rau keeps on ranting that Kira doesn't deserve to exist and everything on both sides (even the world) must be destroyed for their [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves fatal mistakes]], Kira responds with a variation of this:
-->'''Kira''': "So what!? This world is still worth protecting!"

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'': When Rau keeps on ranting that Kira doesn't deserve to exist and everything on both sides (even the world) must be destroyed for their fatal mistakes, Kira responds with a variation of this:
-->'''Kira''': "So what!? This world is worth protecting!"

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'': When Rau keeps on ranting that Kira doesn't deserve to exist and everything on both sides (even the world) must be destroyed, Kira responds with a variation of this:

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'': In the words of Kira, regarding to the world:

* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' in "The Three Garridebs" when Watson, of all people, is wounded, he says "it was worth a wound, it was worth ''many'' wounds, to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The firm lips were shaking, and hard eyes were dimmed for a moment. The one time I saw a great heart as well as a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service have cultivated in that revelation." Basically, this means that, despite he was ''nearly killed'' he was SO surprised that his friend (of all people) would be there for him, and it proved that his friend was the only person he was WORTH living for.

* PlayedForLaughs in a current TV ad from Phillips 66 -- a woman is sitting at her husband's bedside in a hospital, and between her sobs says that she never had a chance to tell him that he'd won free gasoline for life (a promotion run by that company). He immediately sits up, yanks his life support equipment off, announces that he has something to live for, and charges out of the hospital room.

* Happens to Nico Robin in ''Manga/OnePiece''. Robin was on the verge of giving up on her life, and Luffy was the light at the end of the tunnel. Her time with the crew was the happiest she had ever been -- and she cared for them so much that she willingly turned herself in in order to save their lives from the Buster Call. The Straw Hats come to rescue her from being executed, and refuse to abandon her just because she had the entire world as her enemy. Just to prove their point, they '''''declared war on the entire world''''' for her sake. It was only then that Robin realized that she had finally found her place.

** After Sheridan's [[spoiler:death at Z'Ha'Dum]], he is challenged by [[TheObiWan Lorien]] to find something worth ''living'' for, rather than merely finding something worth ''dying'' for. For Sheridan, it turns out that the one thing in his life worth living for is [[spoiler:[[LadyOfWar Delenn]]]]. This helps him persevere towards the end of the fourth season after [[spoiler:he is captured and subjected to ColdBloodedTorture.]]

** When he starts dating Asuka Shinji realizes she is his reason to keep living and fighting, even if he hates fighting.

** [[spoiler:Trafalgar Law had lost his friends and family to the World Government and a disease that would kill him before he even reached adulthood. Thus, he believed that all had to live for was to destroy everything in sight, as retribution against a world that cruelly took away all he held dear and persecuted him -- until Corazon showed him kindness and compassion, and eventually gave up his own life so Law could live. Thus, Law had something else to live for: killing Donquixote Doflamingo, Corazon's murderer. Thirteen years later, after Doflamingo is finally defeated, Law finds closure after speaking with Corazon's father-figure Sengoku, who tells him that the Corazon saved him not because of some fabled inherited will, but out of love, and that if Law truly wants to honor sacrifice, he should live as Corazon would want him to: free]].

** [[spoiler:Trafalgar Law had lost his friends and family to the World Government and a disease that would kill him before he even reached adulthood. Thus, he believed that all had to live for was to destroy everything in sight, as retribution against a world that cruelly took away all he held dear and persecuted him -- until Corazon showed him kindness and compassion, and eventually gave up his own life so Law could live. Thus, Law had something else to live for: killing Donquixote Doflamingo, Corazon's murderer]].

-->All of her life, Commander Ikari had given her a purpose to live for.

* In ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'', when Teresa is sentenced to be executed by her fellow Claymores for breaking the rule against killing humans in order to save the orphaned girl Claire, she refuses to submit because in Claire she has found something worth living for. After she grows up to be a Claymore herself, Claire reaches a similar point when Raki's pleas bring her back from the verge of becoming an Awakened Being, and she decides to keep on living for his sake.

-->'''Kaylee:''' ''You mean to say... as in sex?''
-->'''Simon:''' ''I mean to say.''
-->'''Kaylee:''' ''To Hell with this. '''I'm gonna live!'''''

* In ''Film/ForrestGump'', Lt. Dan always thought it was his destiny to die in the field, just like someone in his family in every major war. When Forrest saves him against his will, he become embittered at life and God, until [[spoiler:he makes peace with himself after Hurricane Carmen leaves him and Forrest alive.]]

->''"It's easy to find something worth dying for. Do you have anything worth living for?"''
-->--'''Lorien''', ''Series/BabylonFive''

* In ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'', when Teresa is sentenced to be executed, she refuses because she has found something worth living for in Claire.