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What is the meaning of 添い遂げる in the following sentence?

> それがすべてを背負い覚悟してきた人の最初で最後の自由ならば俺も添い遂げたい。

Context: a man agrees with a friend's request to act freely, without worrying
of anything.

The only meaning I found in dictionaries is `to remain married/together for
life`, but this cannot be the case. I think here it has a meaning similar to
`follow`, could it be? Here's my attempt:

> If this is the first and last time a man that had the resolution to carry
> everything on its shoulder acts freely, then I'll follow him.
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Meaning of 添い遂げる in this sentence
If these two people are not in a romantic relationship, "to follow" may be
appropriate. But the important connotation of 添い遂げる is _until the end_ , or
usually, _until death_. Maybe the friend has little time left to live?

There are other compound verbs which include 遂げる:

  * 成し遂げる: to accomplish something difficult (after much struggle)
  * やり遂げる: to do something all the way to the end

As you can see, "consuming much time/effort (to do something)" is the meaning
of 遂げる as an element of a compound verb.
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> I think here it has a meaning similar to "follow", could it be?

Yes, I would say that you are on the right track.

In this context, 「添{そ}い遂{と}げる」 is being used as a dramatic and exaggerated
word choice to mean " ** _to get in the same boat_** ".

In fact, the whole sentence sounds extremely dramatic. It is **_not_**
something you will hear in the real Japanese-speaking world **_at all_**.
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