trope by hiding his natural immunity to a world ending disease so a vaccine wouldn't be made.

Alice Cooper's song "Last Man On Earth" is about a guy who wakes up one morning to find that he's, well, the last man on earth. And instead of being depressed about it, he proceeds to sing about why it's awesome.

"The End of the World" by Lenka is an upbeat song about a girl who is perfectly fine with dying as long as she dies with her loved one. At the end of the world, we'll be together, be together

If I can spend it with you, then the end of the world don't matter

At all

The protagonist of "The Story Of Willy" by King Missile has this perspective on the impending apocalypse ("Todayis a special day, the last day of planet Earth, and I'm going to enjoy myself"). Even when he finds his friend Bob has committed suicide, he resolves to wait until Bob's wife gets home and take her out dancing. Of course, because this is King Missile we're talking about here, Willy then gets run over by a runaway steamroller

Tabletop Games

Early Shadowrun products' Alternate History timeline depicted downtown New York City being virtually leveled by an earthquake in 2004, and tallied the damages around 200 billion dollars. Even at 1989 prices, that figure seems preposterously like this trope, as does the premise that even that game-setting's Mega-Corp powerhouses could finance its reconstruction in a matter of a couple of decades.

GURPS Autoduel/Car Wars portrays Australia as having become a