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So I have hit the roadblock where I should write a death scene for a certain character.

As far as I'm concerned, there are certain tropes existing in this department, two of them are which:

a) A character rambling endlessly before dying

b) A character dying slowly overall which bores readers to, well, death.

...and most writers are trying to avoid them, which is fair enough.

But the problem is, that in my case I have no choice but to use these tropes, because:

a) Character 1 is dying because of sickness, which is overall a slow way of dying, except times when you just boom and don't wake up

b) Both of characters (there is 2 of them) had unresolved issues between them and they both were prolonging it until the very end, hoping that they would just magically disappear.

So I plan to write in the way like you all probably guessing: Character 2 will try to heal character 1 believing that it is possible, and when it will be clear that it doesn't, he will have emotional outburst ranting how useless he is and blaming himself for what had happened while character 1 will try to comfort him, and somewhere along the lines after that will happen their final dialogue about said issues.

First of all, it sounds like a big overused trope even to me, so I wonder if there any way to effectively present it or find way around it.

Second: if this horribly cheesy scene will turn out to be unavoidable, will it hurt much to the rest of the story? Is it worth to left it as it is so you could quickly get the reader to the better part after it?