coming to terms with one's own death theme

A character is about to die, perhaps from a natural illness, comes to accept the fact and become at peace with themselves over it. In fantastic stories, a character may even have died and must now come to terms with the fact.

Examples

In tng5x24 "The Next Phase", Ro Laren and Geordi La Forge apparently perish in a freak engineering accident and become ghosts. Geordi implores Ro to accept the reality of their demise, but she will have none of it. As it transpires, they had merely been phase shifted and could be brought back later.

54 total · 8 choice · 29 major · 17 minor

Story	Level	Motivation
bbf5x22	choice	Sheridan knew he was days away from death.
movie: Dark Victory (1939)	choice	Judith initially did everything she could do pretend that she wasn't sick, and later that she wasn't dying. In the end, however, she made some sort of peace with the inevitable.
movie: Logan (2017)	choice	Logan was being slowly and painfully poisoned by his adamantium skeleton.
movie: The Seventh Seal (1957)	choice	Antonius Block played chess with death to give himself more time but knew that he would soon die.
novel: Never Let Me Go (2005)	choice	All the children being groomed for having their organs harvested came to learn their fate.
novel: The Buried Giant (2015)	choice	Axl and especially Beatrice, Gawain to an extent.
rbt1985e2x11	choice	The titular old woman Tildy stubbornly refused to come to terms with her own death that when it finally and inevitably came for her, she actually browbeat the grim reaper's henchmen into letting her return to corporeal life.
tz2002e1x23	choice	The story follows a man terminally ill with cancer who comes to accept his impending death.
bbf1x02	major	Delenn was going to have her soul extracted from her living body by the Soul Hunter. IPHO: maybe you mean about people facing death in general?
blackmirror3x04	major	Yorkie and Kelly coped with being old and near death in contrasting ways.