
Lonely Funeral: Very few people attend the deceased's funeral.Load-Bearing Hero: Hero has to hold up a weight to prevent it from crushing them and others to death.Living on Borrowed Time: Character uses artificial means to prolong their life.The Living Dead: A living person pretends to be a corpse.Little Dead Riding Hood: Girl clad in red is at risk of dying.
Literally Shattered Lives: A person frozen solid or Taken for Granite is killed when they break into pieces. Like You Would Really Do It: Because of the character's importance, the audience refuses to believe that the character will actually die, which ruins the suspense of teasing that they might die. Like You Were Dying: A character radically changes their behavior because they're dying. Lights Off, Somebody Dies: Someone is found dead after the lights go off and come back on. Life Will Kill You: Dying in a non-dramatic way. Life/Death Juxtaposition: A life motif is juxtaposed against a death motif in some way. Libation for the Dead: Pouring a drink on the ground to honor the deceased. Let Them Die Happy: Lying to a dying loved one so that they're happy in their final moments. Leitmotif upon Death: A character's death triggers their Leitmotif being played to make their death sadder. Legally Dead: Someone is legally declared deceased on the basis that they've gone missing and no one's heard from them in a long time. Legacy Immortality: A hero thought killed continues living by way of other people taking up the identity after the previous person meets their end. Left for Dead: A person turns out to be alive after it was assumed they were left to die. Leave No Witnesses: Avoiding getting caught for a crime by murdering everyone who's seen you do it. Leave No Survivors: The killer refuses to leave anyone in their path alive. Leave Behind a Pistol: Leaving a pistol in hopes that the person left with it will use it to commit suicide. Last Wish Marriage: A dying character opts to get married while they still live. Last Survivor Suicide: Someone kills themselves over being upset at being the last one left alive. Last Stand: Someone kills as many enemies as they can before they die.
Last Request: Dying person asks for one last request before they die.Last of His Kind: The last surviving member of a near-extinct species.Last Kiss: Lovers exchange one more kiss before one or both of them die.Last Grasp at Life: Dying person reaches out in an attempt to grab something to save them.Last Disrespects: A funeral service where the attendees aren't very respectful to the deceased.The Last Dance: Character decides that if they're going to die, they may as well go down fighting.Last Day to Live: Character is informed they don't have much time left, but in reality they're in perfect health.Last Breath Bullet: Villain thought killed turns out to have enough life left in them to do one bad deed before dying for real.