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Just thought I'd throw open this topic for discussion: What are some of your favorite books with death scenes that you'd like to see adapted to film?

One of my favorite scenes (though I still need to read the complete book) is from the Len Deighton spy novel "An Expensive Place to Die" where the nameless narrator is at a shady "sex clinic"/brothel when a beautiful naked woman suddenly runs out of one of the rooms, bleeding from multiple wounds (the result of being put in an iron maiden); she runs out into the street before finally collapsing, and passersby respond with catcalls and wolf-whistles, reacting more to her nudity than to the fact that she's dying.

Three of the previous novels in this series by Deighton (The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin, and Billion-Dollar Brain) were adapted into films starring Michael Caine; if only the series had continued long enough to adapt this novel (and that the adaptation would be faithful enough to include this scene in all its glory)!

What books would you want to see adapted (whether just for the death scenes or on the book's own merits)?

I would like to see Spillane’s “I, the Jury” and “The Death Dealers” done. Both Hollywood versions of “I, the Jury” screwed up the ending so badly that they don’t deserve the title.

I wish that King's "Dark Tower" series had gotten a better adaptation, so that we could have gotten an adaptation of Susan Delgado's BATS scene from Wizard and Glass eventually.