History Main / BuryMeNotOnTheLonePrairie

* TheFugs, with "Bury Me in an Apple Orchard":

* Pianist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Tchaikowsky Andre Tchaikowski]] donated his body to medical research, and asked that his skull be used in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Hamlet. In 2008, he played Yorick opposite Creator/DavidTennant.

* In ''WonderWoman'', when Diana's one time publicist Minda Mayner's video will is played, she includes a large sum of money for Diana as an incentive to have her cremation ashes spread around the Amazons' Paradise Island so she can be a part of that place. Diana's only complaint is that she was upset that Minda felt she was so shallow that she needed to be paid to do something she would have immediately done for nothing.

* BigAndRich, "Deadwood Mountain"

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* In ''Film/EdgeOfDarkness2010'', Mel Gibson's character Tom Craven scatters his daughter's ashes on a beach where he'd taken her for outings when she was little (YMMV about whether or not this may also be an AshesToCrashes type situation).
* At the end of ''Film/FamilyBusiness'', Jesse has a rooftop wake where Adam and Vito mend fences. They scatter Jesse's cremains on the edge of the building's parapet to let the wind take them where it may, while the rest of Jesse's old friends from the neighborhood call, "So long!" and "See you on the other side, Jesse!" (Again, YMMV on whether the AshesToCrashes trope fits this one.)

* HunterSThompson, [[TropeOverdosed whose life contains about every trope in existence]], had the best funeral in history. His ashes were shot out of a ''cannon shaped like a giant sword, the hilt of which was shaped like the Gonzo logo.'' The man in charge of getting all of this (and the frankly ''amazing'' party) together? JohnnyDepp.
** The best part? His ashes were mixed into fireworks. [[CrazyAwesome Yeah.]]

* And then there's James Doohan, Scotty from ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'', who requested his ashes be sent into space. It took them 2 years to take his remains up even on a temporary trip. On the rocket that was going to bring his ashes (with several others) into space, the launch was halted at T-0.5 seconds because the rockets were malfunctioning. It launched properly a few days later. Somehow, a ''malfunctioning'' spacecraft seems more appropriate for the man behind Scotty than one where everything goes smoothly.

* And then there's James Doohan, Scotty from ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'', who requested his ashes be sent into space. It took them 2 years to take his remains up even on a temporary trip. On the rocket that was going to bring his ashes (with several others) into space, the launch was halted at T-0.5 seconds because the rockets were malfunctioning. It launched properly a few days later.
** Somehow, a ''malfunctioning'' spacecraft seems more appropriate for the man behind Scotty than one where everything goes smoothly.

* ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny'' sings the trope namer in one of his cartoons.

* On ''KingOfTheHill'', Cotton's will demands that his ashes be flushed down a specific toilet on a specific diner, apparently because General Patton used it once. Hank has to get around the diner owner, who's fed up with soldiers having the same request.

* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove'', Lazarus Long tries to give Libby the cremation he requested, by letting him burn up de-orbiting into Earth. Problem is, he dies on the other side of the galaxy, but thankfully corpses keep well in space. Long sets up the body in an orbit around the planet where Libby died, knowing he can always come back later when it's possible to get to Earth and retrieve the body. Oddly enough someone steals it before he can come back, and even odder it turns out to be Lazarus himself. (TimeTravel is fun like that). However, in ''Literature/TheNumberOfTheBeast'' we discover that he steals Libby's corpse a ''second'' time so they can recapture his DNA and memories and ''clone'' him, this time [[OppositeSexClone as a woman]].

* In Literature/TheBible, Joseph makes the Israelites swear that they would take his body with them when they left Egypt. He was eventually reburied in Israel, meaning that they must have carried his coffin through the desert for forty years. This causes complications along the way, because the people carrying his coffin are therefore ritually impure and can't offer the Passover sacrifice. A "make-up" date for the sacrifice one month later is instituted due to this, which means that complications as a result of a will are OlderThanFeudalism.

* FrederickTheGreat of Prussia stipulated that he be buried in a simple grave at Sanssouci palace, next to his dogs. His successor decided that this was not on and had him buried in the vault of the Garnisonkirche in Potsdam. At the end of WorldWar2, the coffin was taken to Hohenzollern castle in Baden-Württemberg. He was finally buried where he wanted after the reunification of Germany.

* Pianist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Tchaikowsky Andre Tchaikowski]] donated his body to medical research, and asked that his skull be used in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Hamlet. In 2008, he played Yorick opposite DavidTennant.

* Before the beginning of ''Redemption Ark'' by Creator/AlastairReynolds, Antoinette Bax's father had said he wanted to have his ashes scattered in the atmosphere of a gas giant. At the time that he dies, all the gas giants in the system where she lives are in the middle of a war zone. This doesn't stop her from personally dropping his body off in the atmosphere of a gas giant while it's still in the contested volume.

* Kaspar and company use this as their cover story in ''Exile's Return'' by RaymondEFeist. They are trying to bring a magical set of armour back home for the wizards to study. To avoid attracting the attention of thieves, they put it in a coffin and claim that the coffin contains the body of their deceased leader, which they are bringing home for burial.

* [[BilingualBonus Hanfkopf]], one of the scholars mentioned in the footnotes from RobertAntonWilson's ''The Widow's Son'' [[hottip:*: Which has a lot of footnotes, most of them completely unrelated to the plot and concerned with the controversy surrounding the philosopher De Selby. It's an homage to Miles na Gopaleen's "The Third Policeman"]] requests that his ashes be ''thrown into the face'' of a rival expert. Sadly, his executors don't got through with it.

* Before the beginning of ''Redemption Ark'' by AlastairReynolds, Antoinette Bax's father had said he wanted to have his ashes scattered in the atmosphere of a gas giant. At the time that he dies, all the gas giants in the system where she lives are in the middle of a war zone. This doesn't stop her from personally dropping his body off in the atmosphere of a gas giant while it's still in the contested volume.

* In ''EdgeOfDarkness'', Mel Gibson's character Tom Craven scatters his daughter's ashes on a beach where he'd taken her for outings when she was little (YMMV whether or not this may also be an AshesToCrashes type situation).
* At the end of ''Film/FamilyBusiness'', Jesse has a rooftop wake where Adam and Vito mend fences. They scatter Jesse's cremains on the edge of the building's parapet to let the wind take them where it may, while the rest of Jesse's old friends from the neighborhood call, "So long!" and "See you on the other side, Jesse!"

* In his will, the MarquisDeSade requested that he be buried in an unmarked grave and that acorns be sowed above him, so that trees would hide his resting place and the world would forget him. This request was not honored, sad to say: his skull was later removed from his grave so the [[ScienceMarchesOn phrenologists]] could have a good look at it, and the world has not exactly forgotten him either.

Compare TheFunInFuneral. Can sometimes overlap with OnOneCondition.