death scene
Character's last breath
A death scene is the moment in a narrative when a character dies, often dramatically rendered in film, theater, or literature: She delivered one of cinema's great death scenes.
The term also refers to the physical location where someone actually died, particularly in criminal investigations: Forensics photographed the death scene.
- mortalityState of eventual death
- corpseDeceased human body
- chalk outlineDrawn perimeter marking remains
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
blood · wound · knife · climax · Juliet · silence · pallor · melancholy · pulse · sacrifice · closure · Hamlet · final act · final words · last rites · betrayal · cold · inevitability
- high dramamelodrama, soap opera, theatrics, histrionics, overwrought
- medical fictionmedical drama, medical mystery, diagnosis, symptoms, cure
- tragic romanceRomeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, Wuthering Heights, doomed lovers, star-crossed
- scenesdream sequence, climax, confrontation, first kiss, first meeting
- tearjerkerstearjerker, tearjerkers, weepie, weepies, weepy
- operaopera, aria, arias, soprano, tenor
death scenebirth scene
Portrayal of delivery
nativity scene · first breath · first cry · conception · emergence
death scenerescue scene
Depicted act of saving
survival · escape scene · happy ending · narrow escape · last-minute save
death scenewedding scene
Ceremony depiction in narrative
love scene · victory celebration · birth announcement · comic relief · party scene
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