Question: Who dies at the end of dear john?

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question: Who dies at the very end of the Dear John movie?
short_answers: Tim

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question: Who dies towards the end of the Dear John movie?
short_answers: John's dad

Mr. Tyree

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question: Who is the actor that dies at the end of dear john, the 2010 film?
short_answers: Richard Jenkins

Jenkins

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question: Who dies at the end of dear john, the novel?
short_answers: John's Father

Long answers:
knowledge: content: In 2003 after being shot in Afghanistan, John is encouraged to return home but he re-enlists for a second time. Four more years pass, and John is informed that his father has had a stroke, and is sent home to be with him. In the hospital, John reads a letter to his father that he wrote for him; John's voice-over at the beginning of the film was from this letter, in which he told his father that the first thing to cross his mind after he was shot was coins, and the last thing to cross his mind before he lost consciousness was his dad. Soon afterward, his father dies.
wikipage: Dear John (2010 film) Plot

content: Dear John is a 2010 American romantic war drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. 
wikipage: Dear John (2010 film)

content: Dear John is a romance novel by American writer Nicholas Sparks released in 2007. 
wikipage: Dear John (novel)

content: John sells his father's coin collection (except the valuable mule coin that he found with his father years ago) in order to raise money to help with Tim's cancer treatment, then he returns to the military, carrying the mule coin with him as a good luck charm. He receives a final letter from Savannah telling him that they received an anonymous donation but Tim succumbed to his illness after only two months of treatment.
wikipage: Dear John (2010 film) Plot

content: Savannah invites John to a bonfire party where he meets her neighbor, Tim, and his autistic son, Alan. Over the course of two weeks, they go on several dates and eventually fall in love. 
wikipage: Dear John (2010 film) Plot
long_answer: Dear John is a romance novel by American writer Nicholas Sparks released in 2007. In 2010, it was adapted into an American romantic war drama film. At the end of both the novel and the film, John's father, Mr. Tyree, dies after being hospitalized for a stroke. Mr. Tyree is played by Richard Jenkins. Later in the movie, Tim, Savannah's neighbor, dies from cancer after only two months of treatment.

knowledge: content: Dear John is a romance novel by American writer Nicholas Sparks released in 2007.
wikipage: Dear John (novel)

content: Dear John is a 2010 American romantic war drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks.
wikipage: Dear John (2010 film)

content: Richard Jenkins as Mr. Tyree
wikipage: Dear John (2010 film)

content: Richard Dale Jenkins (born May 4, 1947) is an American actor.
wikipage: Richard Jenkins

content: Henry Thomas as Tim Wheddon
wikipage: Dear John (2010 film)

content: Henry Jackson Thomas Jr. (born September 9, 1971) is an American actor and musician.
wikipage: Henry Thomas
long_answer: There was a novel named Dear John and a film of the same name. John's father dies at the end of the 2007 romance novel by Nicholas Sparks. John's dad, Mr. Tyree, played in the film by American actor Richard Dale Jenkins, also dies toward the end of the 2010 film based on the novel. However, Tim, played by American actor and musician Henry Thomas, dies at the very end of the film.