History Main / DuetoTheDead

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* ''Manga/SevenSeeds'': Whenever possible, the characters will try to perform a burial or something similar to anyone that has died. In cases like [[TakingTheBullet Izayoi]] or the three Team Winter members that didn't survive the cryo-stasis, it's done for emotional reasons and as a sign of respect and grief. But others cases, like covering up Mayu's body, are stated to be done to prevent the bodies from being damaged by wildlife.
* Cruelly subverted in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''; after the disastrous 57th expedition of the Survey Corps, they ''attempt'' to recover the bodies to be brought back to their families and proper burial within the walls, but when a few troops go against orders and try to get a body that was deemed unrecoverable due to proximity to Titans, and end up drawing them back to the convoy, Levi orders all of the bodies ([[spoiler: including those of his entirely wiped out squad]]) to be dumped so the cart carrying them can escape. And none of the soldiers, including Levi, are happy with it.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** One of the duties of the Shinigami sent to the world of the living is to perform Konso (soul burial) on the souls of the [[UnfinishedBusiness lingering dead]], allowing them to pass on to Soul Society. This serves a number of purposes: chiefly, it saves them from being preyed upon by [[TheHeartless Hollows]], who [[HorrorHunger eat the souls of the dead in order to satiate their hunger]], and it stops them from becoming Hollows themselves. It also serves another purpose in that [[BalancingDeathsBooks it helps preserve the balance between the realms of the living and the dead]], which would spill unto one another if one were to house too many souls.
** Their other main duty is to outright kill Hollows. A Shinigami's [[EmpathicWeapon Zanpakuto]] has the power to purify the soul of a Hollow of the sins they committed in death, which then allows them to move on to Soul Society and re-enter the cycle of reincarnation. Hollows that committed grave sins in life, however, are another story: those get DraggedOffToHell.
** Every year, on the anniversary of Masaki's death, Ichigo and his family go to [[GraveMarkingScene visit her grave.]] Notably, it is the one day in the entire year where [[BumblingDad Isshin]] smokes, since the one time Masaki complimented his looks was when he smoked during the time they started dating.
** When it becomes apparent that Ikkaku will die fighting Edorad, Yumichika calls Soul Society and requests, among other things, that they make preparations for his military funeral. Fortunately, it doesn't come to that.
** After Chojiro Sasakibe dies fighting the Vandenreich, he is given a military funeral with the entirety of the Gotei 13 in attendance. Later on, Yamamoto gives his Lieutenant a "proper send-off" by ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill obliterating]]'' the man responsible for his death.
--->'''[[AFatherToHisMen Yamamoto]]:''' I'm finally able to give you a proper send-off. Chojiro... Farewell.
* The manga version of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' shows a crowd of mourners at [[spoiler: Rosette Christopher]]'s grave, and many years later a minor character states that flowers are placed on the grave every year, even though the grave's location wasn't revealed to the public. [[spoiler: It's implied that Chrono is the one leaving flowers on her grave every year, showing that he still cares for her several decades after her death.]]
** The anime also shows [[spoiler:Satella]]'s body laid out for viewing in a church, possibly after her funeral.
** Both versions have Rosette and Joshua find Chrono sleeping in a tomb, that was sealed with holy magic and intricately carved. Flashbacks later reveal that it's the grave of [[spoiler:Mary Magdalene]], and show her in her coffin laying on a bed of flowers before her tomb is sealed.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has [[spoiler: cyborg [[EnsembleDarkhorse Jeremiah Gottwald]]]] actively deciding to respect a dead commander of [[spoiler: the Geass order]] because of the loyalty the man showed, which is the one trait [[spoiler: Jeremiah]] values above all others.
** Despite having professed hating him not too long before, Lelouch makes a point of burying [[spoiler: Rolo]] with his ''own hands'' after his HeroicSacrifice [[spoiler: marking his grave with the pendant he gave him that was originally meant for Nunnally; proving that he grew to genuinely care for his false brother.]]
* Played straight with [[spoiler:L's funeral]] in the ''Manga/DeathNote'' anime- at least, until Light is left alone, at which point one of the most disturbing scenes in the series begins.
* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', the series has at least two key events for these rites.
** After [[spoiler: Kyojuro]] dies, several scattered scenes of characters reacting to his death is shown, his lord Kagaya in particular is offering his prayers to the already fallen slayers before [[spoiler: Kyojuro]], commending on [[spoiler: Kyojuro's]] bravery until the end, earnestly expecting to join him and everyone else in the afterlife when their mission to eradicate demonkind is finally done.
** [[spoiler: In the end, after Muzan is dead, the Corps are disbanded, Tanjiro and Nezuko go back home, taking Zentisu and Inosuke with them; Zenitsu carries the ashes of his beloved master Jigoro with him, Tanjiro and Nezuko allow him to bury the ashes in the same place the Kamado family was buried, where they all send their prayers and move on]].
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': When Vegeta dies tearfully begging Goku to avenge their race on Namek, Goku, out of [[SympathyForTheDevil sympathy]], takes the time to give Vegeta a proper burial before fighting Frieza.
* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'':
** After [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled throwing himself to his death before the effects of a Hokuto Shinken attack kills him]], Shin's body is retrieved by Kenshiro, who gives him a proper burial out of respect for the man who loved Yuria as much as he did.
** After Rei dies in a hut as a result of Raoh's attack, Kenshiro puts the hut to flame as a funeral pyre.
* In ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', Tohru and her friends visit her mother's grave, and find that her grandfather had also come to pay his respects.
* In ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'', a flashback shows that one of the most important talks between Roy and Riza took place at the end of the Ishvalan war... when she was done giving an Ishbalan murdered child, whose body she found by a nearby road, something similar to a dignified burial.
* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic''
** The fact that Sōsuke is respectful to the dead becomes a ''huge'' plot point in ''The Second Raid''. It's eventually revealed that the reason for Gauron's [[StalkerWithACrush obsession]] and LoveAtFirstSight towards Sōsuke stems from having seen the dignified way [[TheStoic Sôsuke]] serenely dragged and threw the corpses of all his fallen enemies into a makeshift burial. There was no compassion or great emotion found in Sōsuke's eyes while he was doing that, and his reason for doing it was presumably because of his own internal set of morals.
** As for Gauron himself, he reveals that when he was around the same age as Sōsuke, he was ordered to arrange the bodies of the victims of the Khmer Rouge his Pol Pot colleagues killed. The similarities in that aspect end there, however. Although he was forced to give proper burials to the people his superiors killed, he is shown to be [[AxCrazy sick and perverse]], and is later shown to have wanted Kaname's body to be raped and brutally violated by the assassin he sent after her (along with photos to be taken of it). Of course, his reason for that might be based more on his want for revenge against the girl that is [[DefrostingIceQueen melting the heart]] of his "beautiful" Assassin Saint.
* ''Manga/FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden'':
** Right before Takiko is spirited away to the world of the book, her mother Yoshie had just passed away and the preparations for her Buddhist funeral were about to begin. [[spoiler: Some time later, she looks into Hikitsu's MagicEye and is temporarily sent back to Japan, but she ends up returning to the book right before the funeral properly takes place.]]
** In the book itself, [[spoiler: Soruen]] is given a very heartfelt funeral after he dies [[spoiler: in an HeroicSacrifice.]]
* ''Franchise/LupinIII'':
** When Zenigata is declared dead, he is always treated to full police honors, as if he made a HeroicSacrifice ForGreatJustice. Lupin and his gang attend at a respectful distance. (If they're seen, the police would have to arrest them.)
** Lupin himself is declared dead on occasion. Pops will assault the corpse to prove it isn't really Lupin. (If he ''can't'' prove it, he's usually sad for a while afterwards.) The rest of the gang mourns him in their respective ways. The service is very small, no family in attendance.
* During the final episode of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', Signum and Genya are seen taking flowers to what is implied to be Zest's grave. When they arrive, they find Auris nearby, who had already left some flowers of her own.
* In ''Anime/MyOtome'', there is a shrine to fallen Otome beneath Garderobe. Since an Otome's body dissolves after death, there are no earthly remains but what appears to be a copy of their GEM is inserted into a crystal pillar to serve as their monument. Miss Maria specifically kneels and apologizes to the deceased when a gaggle of aspiring Otome trespass into the shrine.
* ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'': Two instances of this in the episode where Nadia and Jean met Marie:
** When their plane is shot, Gladys and her two henchmen cross themselves and take a moment of silence for the memory of the chiildren they were tracking, thinking they were dead.
** After sucessfully fleeing the assaulters, Jean take a shovel and go bury Marie's parents and dog, even though he was still tracked. After this, the trio go to these graves.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** More than one funeral takes place in the story, including those of [[spoiler: the Third Hokage (who died fighting Orochimaru)]] and [[spoiler: his son Asuma (died fighting Hidan)]]
** One of Kakashi's "quirks" is him always being late because he likes spending time checking on the symbolic grave of his best friend Obito. [[spoiler: It's a huge plot point: Obito turns out to be NotQuiteDead, and he learns about Naruto's upcoming birth when he hears Kakashi talking to his grave about it.]]
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** The Marineford War ends in the (most notable) deaths of [[spoiler: Whitebeard and Ace]]. When [[spoiler: Shanks]] steps in to put a stop to it, he demands to take the bodies to give them a proper burial. While Vice Admiral Doberman objected (he wanted to put their heads for viewing as a symbol of the Marines' victory) Fleet Admiral Sengoku outranked him. Whether this was out of respect or because he didn't want hostilities to flare up again, Sengoku conceded to the demand without complaint.
** This is used as an EstablishingCharacterMoment for Oden during a flashback when he uses a dead friend's funeral pyre to ''cook himself lunch''. It was his way of symbolically sharing one last meal with him.
* An early episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' has and his gang as well as Team Rocket escape from the capsized St. Anne. Ash has Pidgeotto look for dry land, and it finds Team Rocket unconscious and brings them to Ash and company's platform. They presume Team Rocket dead and say a quick prayer and attempt to bury them at sea, but Team Rocket comes to just in time to stop them. [[BlackComedy Pikachu snaps his fingers in disappointment]].
--> '''Ash, Misty, and Brock''': Ahh! Zombies!
* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': Played with.
** Colbert gives a whole song and dance to Akira and Sheryl about retrieving the dead traitor hunter Guyver's body to give it to the [[AdventureGuild Hunter's Office]] for the greater good, convincing them to take the body from the wasteland. But it turns out that Colbert was assigned to monitor Guyver and make sure he didn't flee from paying his debts, and hands the body to the debt agency to verify his death wasn't faked.
** A PunchClockVillain NobleDemon hunter Akira fights named Erde talks about how TheDeadHaveNames, and asks Akira for his name in order to properly honor him after killing him. Erde apologizes to his subordinates that died fighting Akira in his LastWords.
* At the conclusion of ''Manga/SaintSeiya'''s Galaxian Wars arc, [[ThePhoenix Phoenix Ikki]] performs a HeroicSacrifice to [[RedemptionEqualsDeath redeem his evil deeds]] and save the Bronze Saints [[TakingYouWithMe from an even bigger threat]]. Although [[NeverFoundTheBody he was buried beneath a mountain]], the four remaining Bronzes erect a grave in his honor at that site.
* In ''Manga/SnowWhiteAndSevenDwarfs'', whereas the government simply dumps bodies in places where they're out of sight, Takeru tries to bury what bodies he can, from those of civilians to those of their enemies. Respect for the dead, overall, seems to be a theme in the series—Shirayuki believes that you should NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead, compared to [[BigBad Kuroyuki]] who's happy to disrespect the fallen.
* In the manga adaptation of ''LightNovel/SwordOratoria'', Aiz Wallenstein throws herself into battle against a huge army of monsters who've killed at least two other adventurers, whose eyes are open even in death. A few panels later, the corpses' eyes have been closed, making them seem much more at peace.
* Used as an EstablishingCharacterMoment in ''Manga/TokyoGhoul''. When Kaneki is sent to help Yomo harvest bodies for the cafe, he's understandably intimidated by the silent Ghoul. But when they arrive on site and discover the body of a recent suicide, Yomo pauses to pray over the victim prior to getting to work. Afterwards, it becomes clear that Yomo is actually an incredibly kind person.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'', before the remaining [[PunkPunk Stitchpunks]] go after [[spoiler: The Seamstress, to get 7 and 8]], they give [[spoiler:2]] a water burial, sending him off on a raft. Then, at the end of the film [[spoiler: the survivors, 9, 7, and 3 + 4 build and light a funeral pyre for the deceased Stitchpunks]].
* In the original, uncut version of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', this trope is discussed only by Commissioner Barbara Gordon at the end of the flashback [[spoiler:where Robin (Tim Drake) shoots ComicBook/TheJoker dead with a [[BangFlagGun BANG Flag Spear Gun]]]]:
-->'''Commissioner Barbara Gordon:''' [[spoiler: We buried the Joker deep beneath Arkham. The only other person who knew what happened that night was my father, the first Commissioner Gordon. He promised to keep that night a secret.]]
* The story-within-the-story in ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'' opens with the three main characters celebrating Dia de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, by leaving flowers and bread at the graves of their deceased relatives. The trope also becomes more important thematically, where [[spoiler:recognizing the pain his bullfighter ancestors caused the bulls they killed and paying them respect helps put the animals' souls to rest, winning Miguel the chance to come back to life.]]
* The Mexican tradition of Dia de los Muertos is the primary driving force behind the plot of ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}''. When Miguel takes a guitar from a memorial, he is cursed because he "stole from the dead" and trapped in the Land of the Dead trying to find a way to undo the curse by sunrise before he becomes one of them.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'': Tiana wants to honor her father's memory by opening a restaurant--her father dreamed of having his own restaurant. [[spoiler: At the end, Tiana and Naveen attend Ray's funeral.]]

[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
* ''Film/AdAstra''. When someone dies in space, their body gets prayers, then is ThrownOutTheAirlock in their space suit. This is in contrast to the Lima crew who have been left floating where they died, a sign of their commander's callousness and SanitySlippage.
* ''Film/TheBlackHole''. The robot crew are seen doing a BurialInSpace for one of their own, which tips off the ''Palomino'''s crew that all is not as it appears aboard the ''Cygnus''.
* This is the central dilemma for Private Mitsushima in Japanese film ''Film/TheBurmeseHarp''. While struggling to make his way to the POW camp where the rest of his unit is interned, Mitsushima keeps running across piles of corpses of Japanese soldiers. This so affects him that he elects to stay behind in Burma and bury Japanese dead rather than go home with his comrades.
* ''Film/Cargo2013'': a couple of survivors from the group that shoot the father are seen digging a grave in the background while the woman in their group plays with Rosie.
* ''Film/CryBloodApache'': When Vittorio returns to the camp and finds his entire tribe slaughtered, he buries all of them before he embarks on his RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* In ''Film/DemonKnight'', Brayker DiesWideOpen. Jeryline respectfully closes them [[spoiler:before taking his blood to refill the Key as its new Guardian]]. The Collector opens them up again when he finds Brayker's corpse, as if any more proof of his evil was needed.
* In ''Film/TheDry'', Billy's classmates at the primary school plant a tree in his memory after he is killed in a [[PaterFamilicide family annihilation]]. The principal Scott Whitlam says to Aaron that he is not sure how he is going to explain it to the students when the tree inevitably dies due to the ongoing drought.
* ''Film/{{Elysium}}'': [[spoiler: Frey covers Delacourt's body with a sheet after she dies]].
* ''Film/EnemyMine''. The bodies of the soldiers killed in the war are shown being ejected from a spaceship amid a solemn funeral dirge. Then we GilliganCut to what's actually going on, with the corpses on a [[RedshirtArmy conveyor belt]] being briefly paused while a bored technician looks up their religious denomination and plays the appropriate music (until the music machine breaks down). The protagonist is nearly ejected into space himself, but turns out to be NotQuiteDead.
* ''Film/FemaleAgents'': The last scene is Louise lighting candles in a church for the fallen, as she had promised earlier.
* ''Film/{{Greyhound}}'': During an engagement with a U-boat, GREYHOUND takes a hit from the sub's deck gun. Later, Commander Krause is informed three of his crew were killed. Since they don't have room to carry bodies for any length of time, he orders an immediate burial at sea. The three bodies are draped in American flags as the crew gathers on deck, the ship slows to a stop, the bell is rung and one by one the names are read and the bodies are dropped overboard accompanied by a TwentyOneGunSalute. The event is marred slightly when the body of Mess Mate George Cleveland, Krause's personal steward, gets caught on the flag, and has to be shaken loose.
* In the 1971 Western ''Film/HannieCaulder'', bounty hunter Price (Creator/RobertCulp), whenever he kills his quarry, always gives back part of his reward to pay for the funeral. When Hannie (Creator/RaquelWelch) takes up the profession, she does the same thing.
* In ''Film/{{Highlander}}'', Connor makes a promise to his first mortal wife Heather to light a candle on her birthday every year after her passing. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments He honours this promise for four centuries]].
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': Katniss does this with [[spoiler:Rue]], inspiring a riot in her district 11. The male District 11 tribute Thresh saves and spares Katniss in deference to this as well, and also savagely kills one of the Careers who gloated about it while attempting to kill Katniss moments before.
* In ''Film/IFrankenstein'', one of the first clues that [[FrankensteinsMonster Adam]] is more than a soulless monster is that even though he hates Victor Frankenstein for creating him, he still carries his body back to the family cemetery and digs him a grave.
* In the film version of ''Literature/TheIndianInTheCupboard'', Omri transforms an action figure of an older Native American so he'll release his grip on the tomahawk in his hand and Omri can take the real thing. The older man dies of fright before Omri can do anything to stop it. Little Bear calls Omri out for not only going that far to get the tomahawk and ending the older man's life, but disrupting the life he had back home in the process. He demands that Omri turn the older man back into an action figure so his flesh-and-blood body can be buried in his own world and because "he would want to be back" there. Little Bear wraps and ties up the action figure, and he and Omri release an action-figure-sized deer into Omri's backyard, apparently as compensation for the life lost. They say a few words before Omri buries the action figure with a trough.
* Film/JamesBond:
** ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'': Bond attends the funeral of SPECTRE agent Colonel Jacques Bouvar, but it turns out Bouvar was FakingTheDead and [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral attended it]] as his "[[DisguisedInDrag widow]]". After killing Bouvar, Bond mockingly empties a flower pot on his body and flees.
** ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'': Bond is FakingTheDead and gets a fake Royal Navy funeral so he can get onboard a submarine for his assignment.
** ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'': Bond nearly ends up victim of MurderByCremation at the Slumber inc. crematorium.
* The plot of ''Film/TheKarateKidPartII'' starts when Miyagi gets a letter from Okinawa telling him his father is dying. When he and Daniel get there, Miyagi is confronted by his lifelong rival, Sato, who years ago had assumed Miyagi fled like a coward to avoid facing him, and still holds a grudge.[[note]]The truth, as Sato eventually figured out, was that Miyagi didn't wish to commit to something one or the other would likely regret later; their grudge wasn't worth a DuelToTheDeath.[[/note]] However, this confrontation is interrupted by the issue at hand. Miyagi manages to speak to his father briefly together with Sato just before the elder Miyagi finally dies. Sato had regarded the elder Miyagi as a mentor himself, so he sternly tells Miyagi he has three days to mourn before he comes to settle their grudge (unfortunately, Sato's nephew Chozen has quickly taken a dislike to Daniel and gives him a lot of trouble in the meantime).
* ''Film/LakePlacid:'' In ''3'', Brett places his jacket over [[spoiler:Charlie's]] remains. However, he also doesn't hesitate to SpeakIllOfTheDead, admitting that he hated [[spoiler:Charlie]] and considered him to be a pervert and an idiot (which is a fair description).
* ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]]'' opens with a traveling salesman arguing with the town undertaker over the burial of a Native American who died in the street: the salesman is willing to pay for the burial, but no one is willing to drive the hearse up to Boot Hill because a "certain element" in the town objects to having a non-white buried there and is threatening violence. The matter is resolved when Chris and Vin, the first two of the eponymous seven, volunteer to drive the hearse and engage in a brief gunfight with a group of racists who try to stop them from entering the cemetery. The villagers then approach them to ask for help, for men who do that are men who will help them.
* ''Film/MariaFullOfGrace'': Colombian teen Maria accepts a risky gig as a drug "mule" to smuggle heroin from Colombia to the United States. [[spoiler:One of her fellow drug mules dies on the job after one of the pellets she swallowed ruptures inside of her. After the body is found and identified Maria donates half of her earnings so that her body can be sent back to Colombia instead of buried in an unmarked grave in New Jersey]].
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** This trope forms a very powerful moment in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2''. When informed by Rocket of Yondu's HeroicSacrifice, the ninety-nine remaining tribes of Ravagers turn up for his funerary cremation and, in recognition of his atonement, fly their salute: the Colors of Ogord. Various captains are also seen delivering a Ravager salute in Yondu's honor, as does a jubilant Kraglin, who realizes [[DeathEqualsRedemption his captain had earned redemption]].
** Shows up twice in ''Film/BlackPanther2018''. After learning of the circumstances surrounding his uncle's death, T'Challa is upset to learn that his body was just left in his apartment and not given a proper burial. Later in the movie, [[spoiler: T'Challa is apparently killed and thrown over a cliff by Killmonger. His younger sister Shuri laments that this means they can't bury him.]]
** In ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', a Skrull infiltrator posing as [[spoiler:the head of S.H.I.E.L.D.]] takes a moment to pray for a fallen comrade who's been subjected to an AlienAutopsy, even though this risks his cover. [[spoiler:It's an early hint that the Skrull-Kree War isn't as black and white as it seems.]]
** ''Film/SpidermanFarFromHome'' opens with a memorial tribute to the Avengers who died during the events of ''Infinity War'' and ''Endgame'': [[spoiler:Vision, Black Widow, and Iron Man, and a tribute is also paid to Captain America, even though he's still alive]]. In addition, throughout the movie, there can be seen a number of murals and other art memorializing [[spoiler:Tony Stark]].
* In ''Film/MyScienceProject'', Cleopatra tosses a flower to Vince. After the protagonists kill a Neanderthal, Vince lays the flower on its chest.
* In ''Film/NeverGrowOld'', Dutch wakes Patrick in the middle of the night and requests two coffins. He takes Patrick to a dugout hole where he kills Bill Crabtree and one other man, and then has Patrick give them a proper burial. Dutch's twisted concepts of friendship and honour demand that he see them properly buried even though he murdered them, because they used to be his friends.
* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'' Jack's first scene has him passing by a few [[MakeAnExampleOfThem pirate skeletons hung outside the harbor]], with a sign reading "Pirates: ye be warned" next to them. His response is to remove his hat and cover his heart, presumably out of respect for the dead. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment This serves to establish that while Jack may be a rogue, he's not a purely evil man.]]
* ''Film/PrairieFever'': After Blue is shot by Logan, the others bury her: marking her grave with a cross of branches, hung with a sketch of her done by Abigale, while Lettie plays the organ and sings a hymn. Preston then speaks some stumbling words over the grave. It is a surprisingly touching scene.
* In ''Film/RevengeForJolly'', Harry and Cecil bury Harry's murdered dog in his backyard and light a firecracker in her memory.
* ''Film/TheRevengers'': When Benedict is shot and LeftForDead, Job gives money to the saloon keeper to see that he receives a proper burial. However, after Job leaves, the saloon keeper discovers that Benedict is NotQuiteDead.
* ''Film/RhymesForYoungGhouls'': Alia and Joe's trauma over losing Anna is only deepened by the fact that she's also been denied proper burial because hers is a death by suicide. In fact, it's happened to many people, all buried close together. They visit her grave out in the forest regularly to make up for this.
* Subverted in ''[[Film/Slipstream1989 Slipstream]]'' (1989). After a BattleCouple from an AfterTheEnd law enforcement agency kill some smugglers, they build a cairn over their bodies while the man prays for them. Then he insists on filling out an incident report, despite the woman telling him that no-one gives a damn. It's presented more as a sign that he's out of touch and clinging to the idea that reports and proper burials matter because he wants to avoid facing reality.
* Occurs twice in ''Film/{{SOB}}''. A group of Felix's friends believe that he would be appalled at the over-the-top Hollywood funeral that is being planned for him, so they steal Felix's body from the funeral parlor in order to give him the funeral that they think he deserves: a Viking funeral where they burn his body at sea on one of Felix's boats. In a subplot that has yet to turn out to be related, a character actor died unknown on the beach in front of Felix's house. The same group all believe this actor never got the respect he deserved, so they substitute his body for Felix's, and they allow the closed casket to be given the previously mentioned over-the-top Hollywood funeral that they think he deserves, with (almost) no one knowing.
* In ''Film/SonOfAGun'', JR and Lynch are preparing to dispose of [[spoiler:Sterlo's body]]. JR, who is obviously uncomfortable with this, asks if they shouldn't say some words or something. Lynch thinks about this for a few moments, then says "Where you're going, there is no parole". He and JR then [[FieryCoverup set fire to truck]] and push it off the cliff into a flooded mine.
* The main plot of ''Film/SonOfSaul'' involves Saul, a prisoner at Auschwitz, trying to get a proper Jewish funeral for a guy who might be his son rather than having the boy burned up in the ovens.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** In ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', Spock's funeral has his body [[BurialInSpace shot out of the torpedo tube]], in a reference to BurialAtSea. The full context (both in the movie itself and over the entire franchise), and especially what happens in the following movie, ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', indicate that this is ''not'' the traditional Vulcan burial rite. Starfleet has been around long enough to build up its own customs and traditions about burial while serving.[[note]]The novelization of the movie stated that Spock's will specified his remains were not to be returned to Vulcan, and that Admiral Kirk decided Spock's torpedo casket was to be fired at the Genesis Planet with the intent the heat of atmospheric entry would cremate Spock's body. ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock The Search For Spock]]'' lends credence to this by having the USS ''Grissom'' crew express surprise to find Spock's casket intact on the surface of the planet.[[/note]]
** ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'' manages to deliver an emotional, powerful ending to Captain Kirk, without need to use words. After Kirk eventually dies from injuries in his final act of heroism, Captain Picard takes the time to do things properly, even when he's alone on a barren planet. He buries Captain Kirk in rocks on a nearby mountaintop and holds vigil overnight before setting out to reunite with his crew.
** ''Film/StarTrek2009'': Nero and the ''Narada'''s crew all have hairless heads. Except the solitary woman. She got to keep her hair, apparently. [[AllThereInTheManual In the backstory]], it's explained that Romulan men shave their heads when grieving and wear facial tattoos. Nero and his crew are in permanent grief, so they're bald forever.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** Jedi largely cremate the bodies of their dead on open pyres unless their bodies had disappeared into the Force as had happened with Luke Skywalker, Yoda, Princess Leia, Anakin Skywalker, and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
*** ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' has Qui-Gon's funeral, and ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' has Luke burn the empty armor and cybernetics of Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker.[[note]] It was confirmed in both the ''Legends'' and current canon continuity that Skywalker's body disappeared off-screen and all Luke burned was Vader's armor and prostetics.[[/note]]
** Padmé's funeral procession is shown at the end of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', with several Naboo and Gungan dignitaries, including Boss Nass, attending.
** In contrast, Vader is fond of strangling people, dumping them on the floor, and storming off in a rage.
* ''Film/{{Stone}}'': The movie's iconic scene is a biker funeral escort on the F3 Freeway. During the funeral, the deceased is buried standing up, so [[StaringDownCthulhu he won't have to take anything from the Devil lying down]].
* In ''Film/TakingChance'', American military members who die while serving overseas are kept under a military escort for their entire trip back to their home town. The movie follows a Marine officer who volunteers to escort PFC Chance Phelps for the last few legs of the trip between Dover AFB and Chance's home town.
* ''Film/TheTheatreBizarre'': In "Vision Strains", The Writer thinks she is memorialising the women she murders by writing down their stories in her journals, because otherwise they would be completely forgotten. During her VillainousBreakdown, a voice in her head (which may just her saner self) tells her that she is doing no such thing. All she is doing is stealing other people's stories because she has no creativity of her own.
* At one point in ''Film/{{U 571}}'', the [[HollywoodHistory US Marines who've boarded a U-Boat to recover the Enigma decoder]] are attempting to convince soldiers manning a German warship that they've been sunk, firing the body of one of their fallen comrades out of a torpedo tube along with whatever junk they can get hold of. The private assigned this task regards it as extremely DirtyBusiness, and takes the time to recite the prayer used for burial at sea before doing so.
* ''Film/UlzanasRaid:'' [=DeBuin=] cares a lot about properly burying the dead, whether they are murdered homesteaders, Apache enemies, or his own men. This is mostly shown in a compassionate light, although it does overlap with a KickTheDog moment when he specifically orders the TokenEnemyMinority ArmyScout to bury a man who was tortured to death.
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* Book 8 of the ''Literature/LoneWolf'' series, ''The Jungle of Horrors'', has a few examples.
** If you take the Barge to Tharro at the beginning of the book you get to witness both sides of this trope. The {{Necromancer}} that you fight and kill on the barge has his corpse weighted with rocks and tossed overboard like so much garbage. On the other hand, the friendly NPC that was killed by that necromancer is laid to rest in a casket and given a respectful burial in the river.
** If you take the Great North Road, you might end up at an abbey. The monks of said abbey [[spoiler:are actually undead Vordaks that murdered the real monks and took their place]]. After [[spoiler:dealing with the Vordaks]], Lone Wolf discovers [[spoiler:the bodies of the real monks]] and takes the time to bury them.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol2009'', we start off with Jacob Marley's death and his corpse being prepared for burial with two pennies covering his eyes to pay Charon. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Scrooge pockets them for his own.]]
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* In horror films, the classic reason why the {{mummy}} stirred was to avenge itself on those who broke into the tomb. Indeed, more generally this trope is a persistent theme in horror films. One example: ''Film/TheAmityvilleHorror1979'', where the basis for the haunted nature of the house is (eventually) revealed to be the fact it was built on an ancient IndianBurialGround. Not ''just'' an IndianBurialGround, but one used for Indians who were [[AxCrazy insane]] or had some lingering illness. And then later it was used by [[EvilSorcerer devil worshipping witches]]. And ''then'' [[TooDumbToLive someone built a house there]].
* Subverted in ''Film/{{Anaconda}}''. Sarone was a [[SinisterMinister former priest]], so he holds a eulogy for a recently deceased crew member after the Anaconda devoured him in front of everyone. However, his prayer is so half-hearted and insincere that [[{{Jerkass}} he just comes off as a prick instead]], especially since Sarone is directly responsible for the guy's death and his weeping girlfriend is sitting right next to him.
* ''Film/ElCamino'': After murdering his cleaning lady, Todd praises her for her honesty and hard work, planning to bury her in a nice spot. This just serves to show his MoralSociopathy.
* ''Film/{{Charade}}'' plays this for laughs: Audrey Hepburn is attending the lying-in-state of her husband when three former associates show up, one by one. One begins sneezing violently, causing the widow's best friend to remark that he must've known the dead man very well: he's allergic to him. Another holds a mirror to the corpse's nostrils to check for breathing. And the third slams open the church door, strides in fiercely, and jabs a pin into the dead man's hand. Audrey's wide-eyed look is hilarious.
* ''Film/HighPlainsDrifter''. The federal marshal whose death was arranged by the townspeople is buried in an unmarked grave, and the idea that such a man can't rest without a marker is lampshaded. At the end of the movie the [[NoNameGiven Stranger]] (who may or may not be the marshal's avenging spirit) arranges for a gravestone to be made before vanishing into the distance.
* ''Film/{{Highlander}}'': Continuing the aforementioned example, after Connor lights a candle for Heather in the church and then sits down, [[BigBad the Kurgan]] walks in and shows contempt for the gesture by crushing Heather's candle under his hand.
* ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'': Balian's wife is denied Christian burial as a suicide. She's buried at the crossroads and beheaded. TruthInTelevision for the time. However, the priest really shouldn't have [[BerserkButton rubbed this in his face]].
* The eponymous ''Film/{{Predator}}'' prizes the skulls of worthy prey as valuable trophies, like a human game hunter mounting the heads of animals he's killed on his wall.
** In the Expanded Universe, Predators without honor are hunted, their bodies dismembered and desecrated, and their heads disposed of, as opposed to being kept as a trophy. It seems that the Predators see keeping a skull as an honor not just for prey but for themselves as well.
* In ''Film/TheSearchers'', one of the big clues that Ethan Edwards is [[AntiHero not John Wayne's usual role]] is the scene where he uncovers a dead Comanche warrior and shoots his eyes. As he explains, the Comanche believe that you need your eyes to enter the spirit world -- by shooting the eyes out, he'd just condemned that warrior to wander the Earth as a ghost.
* In the 1943 FilmSerial ''Secret Service in Darkest Africa'' a German naval vessel is given permission to bury their dead on neutral soil. Instead they dump the bodies overboard and fill the coffins with explosives which their agent can pick up later. Sailors are buried at sea of course, but it's [[PropagandaMachine clearly meant to show the callousness of the evil Nazis even to their own]].
* In ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', the crew comes across the village where Book has been living peacefully having been completely slaughtered by The Operative's forces. Mal decides to use the bodies to camouflage Serenity to sneak past the Reavers orbiting the planet Miranda, which (naturally), his crew finds completely disgusting. Mal [[DirtyBusiness probably didn't feel especially good about it either]], but it ''does'' enable the crew to bring the man chiefly responsible for their murder to something like justice, ([[spoiler: not to mention start the ball rolling on doing the same for thirty million more innocent victims]]) so there's that.
* In ''Film/ThirteenAssassins'', Lord Naritsugu kicks the severed head of the most loyal of his own subjects, who just gave out his life to defend Naritsugu. When the hero calls him out for it, Naritsugu shrugs it off.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': a serious case of EvenEvilHasStandards.
** One of the signs that [[DirtyCop Marcus]] isn't a complete {{Jerkass}} is him visiting the grave of [[spoiler: Grayson]] and telling his daughter she was a good person. [[spoiler: He's visibly still guilty about being partly responsible for her death.]]
** Amazingly, [[BigBad Silco]] allowed a statue of Vander to be built in Zaun. He [[LibationForTheDead pours out part of his drink]] while commiserating about how in the end he's become just like Xander in that his love for his surrogate child has trumped his prior revolutionary zeal.
** A guilt-ridden Viktor disposes of the [[ReducedToDust remains]] of Sky after she's accidentally killed during an experiment he was running. He scatters her ashes in a place where they met as children but laments that [[IgnoredEnamoredUnderling he didn't know her well enough]] to know what she would have wanted done with her remains.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': It's revealed in the episode "Ace in the Hole" that every year, on the anniversary of his parents' murder, Bruce Wayne travels to Crime Alley, the site of said murder, and leaves a bouquet of flowers on the spot where they died. It was during one such visit that he met his loyal dog, Ace.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' episode "Code of Hero", after [[spoiler: Dinobot sacrifices his life to save the proto-humans]], the Maximals recycle his remains out of respect of his [[spoiler:Predacon]] heritage.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Road to Rhode Island", Brian goes to visit his mother, and he's shocked to see that not only she has died, but her stuffed body is used as a table. He ends up stealing her body and giving her a (more or less) proper burial.
* The second episode of ''WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois L'homme'', which focuses on [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals Neanderthal man]], features two instances of this trope: once with an unnamed hunter who got killed in a hunting accident, and once with [[spoiler: Maestro following his DeathByNewberyMedal]]. The above information confirms that this is TruthInTelevision among Neanderthals.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Hereafter", following the ([[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated apparent]]) death of ComicBook/{{Superman}}, a funeral is held for him in First Metropolis Cathedral, attended not only by his fellow League members, but a host of characters from ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' and other heroes from the DCU such as ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} and his wife Mera. This is considered one of the sadder episodes in the series since the first half focuses on his death and the attempts of his teammates to come to terms with it, but it also makes for some touching scenes: ComicBook/{{Lex|Luthor}} [[AntagonistInMourning Luthor]] shows up to [[AntagonistInMourning pay his respects]] as well, ComicBook/MartianManhunter gives a touching eulogy about the example Superman set and how they should strive to pass it along to honour his memory and even ComicBook/{{Batman}}, who hitherto has refused to accept that Superman died, goes to his burial site to voice his respect for him.
* ''WesternAnimation/MadJackThePirate'': Mad Jack's Uncle Mortimer wished to be buried at the Island of [[Creator/HannaBarbera Hanna-Barbarian]]. In fact, taking his corpse there was [[OnOneCondition one of the conditions]] Mad Jack had to fulfill to be allowed to collect the inheritance Uncle Mortimer left him.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "Reaching Out", [[spoiler:Luz is left off balance all day because it's the anniversary of her father's death, and the fact that she's stuck in the demon realm means that she's unable to complete her yearly ritual of leaving flowers at his grave with her mother. At the end of the episode, she and Amity send some flowers off into the horizon in an abomination balloon, so they can at least pretend that it will somehow reach him in the human realm.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': In Season 5, it is revealed that Jack's fall from grace was caused by [[spoiler: him killing three baby goats that - due to his rage at not getting home combined with a brainwashing spell from Aku - he thought were Aku's demon minions. After Jack snaps out of it and sees what he's done, he's thoroughly ashamed of himself and is left to despair as the sword leaves him for having taken an innocent life. A return to the place where this happened shows three little graves at the top of the mountain, clearly done by Jack as a sort of atonement for his crime]].
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooShaggysShowdown'': [[spoiler: The gang clear the name of Shaggy's ancestor Dapper Jack who was GoodAllAlong]]
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':
** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E12TheGunganGeneral "The Gungan General"]]: After the shuttle is shot down, Jar Jar and the clone troopers bury the deceased Kharrus under a cairn and use his staff as a grave marker.
** In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E12VictoryAndDeath "Victory and Death"]], the GrandFinale, Ahsoka, realizing that the Clone Troopers who tried to kill her did so [[BrainwashedAndCrazy through no fault of their own]], takes the time to bury every one of them when they all die when their ship crashes and set up the helmets, that the clones painted in honor of her before [[ThePurge Order 66]], as a memorial to them.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': In the penultimate episode of Season 4, "Requiem," Splinter is killed by Shredder. The next episode, "Owari," begins with Splinter's funeral; he is buried on April's family farm in North Hampton, with the Turtles themselves and their allies, including the Mighty Mutanimals and April's father, in attendance.
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersCyberverse'': The finale concludes at a wake for [[spoiler:Soundwave]] who'd sacrificed himself to put an end to Tarn and his machinations. At the wake, the heroes speak fondly of his life, even the times he tried to kill them.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Used tragically in ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''. [[spoiler:When one of the [[TykeBomb Daughters of Aku]] is killed by Jack, the other Daughters drag her body outside the temple and... just leave it there to rot. "Death is failure." The fact that they don't care about each other is eventually proven to be their FatalFlaw.]]
* The trope was also lampshaded and parodied in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': a shop owner suffering from an influx of evil pets explains how he selected the site of an Indian burial ground for his store, then dug up the bodies, pissed on them, and then reburied them the wrong way up. [[ItMakesSenseInContext He was drunk at the time.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' the montage of Starscream dying and reviving is capped off everytime with him being thrown in the river to rust where he lay. The first time they didn't even bother with that.
* Megatron and Starscream in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' have no qualms with using Dark Energon to reanimate the bodies of dead Cybertronians, be they Autobot or Decepticon, into zombie Terrorcons under their control.
** In the episode "Alpha/Omega", Megatron breaks into the tomb of a dead Prime and chops an arm off the corpse to [[BadassTransplant graft onto his own body]], enabling him to use the Forge of Solus Prime to create the Dark Star Saber.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* On at least two occasions in ''Series/{{Angel}}'' a dead character has to be dismembered by a loved one (Holtz by Connor, and Lilah by Wesley) due to the (incorrect) belief that they were killed by vampires.
* ''Series/AshVsEvilDead'':
** In "Bait", after killing [[spoiler: Kelly's Deadite-possessed parents]], Ash takes the time to give them both a proper burial. Unfortunately, he makes them cross-shaped grave markers, and they're Jewish.
** In "The Host", after [[spoiler: Pablo's uncle is killed by Eligos, Ash and the gang make him a funeral pyre]].
* ''Series/BabylonFive''
** One episode shows the bodies of those killed in an attack being fired into the system's sun while Commander Ivanova read off the names of the dead. Once the list is finished, she recites, "From the stars we came, to the stars we return. We hereby commit these souls to the deep." Starfuries escort the bodies for a time before one flies off to make a Missing Man formation.
** Later, [[spoiler:Vorlon ambassador Kosh is killed by the Shadows]], and his living ship does something similar: after receiving its late master's effects, and unable to continue without him, it commits the remains ''and itself'' into the system's sun.
* The re-imagined ''{{Series/Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' showed several funerals now and then. Since they are a Fleet, they did [[SpaceIsAnOcean burial at space]], complete with flags and medals if the dead were soldiers/crewmembers. Regular burials were also shown over the course of the series though.
** Cylons also have funerals for one of their own that died permanently. It becomes distressingly common after the destruction of the resurrection hub. The fact that the "infinity" symbol is used in Cylon funerals sparked some EpilepticTrees after it was shown in [[SpinOff Caprica]] that a monotheist group closely connected to the creation of Cylons also used the same symbol.
** One of the moments near the final episodes was a large funeral attended by the three main groups of the Fleet (the polytheists, the human monotheists and the Cylon monotheists) which showed (and contrasted) each groups practice.
* ''Series/{{Bones}}'': Dr. Brennan sees it as her moral obligation to give the murder victims she analyzes a face and name, and to assist in the detainment of their murderers. She notably gets very distressed when she can't ID a victim, or if she doesn't determine the perpetrator as quickly as she thinks she should. This is also why serial killers are her BerserkButton: they either construe their actions as acceptable or simply take joy in killing others.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' has quite a number of examples:
** "Officer Blue": Stella and Mac are seen wearing their dress uniforms, having just returned from the memorial service for a mounted officer who was shot in Central Park.
** "Heroes": Mac tells Stella that a former co-worker's father will let them know when the arrangements for her service are finalized.
** "Yarhzeit": The broach owner's aunt leads Mac through the titular service in honor of her niece and his father. Also downplayed by Adam quietly filling in for Sheldon who goes out of town for his uncle's funeral.
** "Pay Up": The team hold their own private wake of sorts for Angell.
** "Indelible": Mac participates in and the other team members attend the dedication of the Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance for first responders who lost their lives on 9/11.
** "Clean Sweep": Mac sees that a deceased homeless Marine (who had been wounded twice in combat) is laid to rest with full military honors.
** "Flash Pop": The lab workers, who are usually just background characters, hold a vigil at work for one of their own who was murdered. Adam and Jo are particularly moved by this.
** "Reignited": Christine accompanies Mac to the funeral of a firefighter friend of his.
** "Civilized Lies": Danny and Lindsay visit the family of an off-duty police officer who was shot and killed. They give the man's son, who is going through the Police Academy, his father's badge which the young man proudly shows to his mother and sister.
* In ''Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance'', the Gelfling and even the ''Skeksis'' are shown properly honoring the dead.
** For the Gelfling, the right thing to do is bury the dead so they may be returned to Thra. The main band of heroes hold an impromptu sermon during their travels for [[spoiler:the All-Maudra and Ordon]], ending in a mournful song.
** While the Skeksis would rather pretend they could ''never'' die, the one instance when they were faced with the death of one of their own was taken deeply seriously. The Emperor decreed that [[spoiler:skekMal the Hunter]] would not be buried or burned. Instead, they would [[BlingOfWar decorate him in their finest armor]] and [[DeadGuyOnDisplay display him in the throneroom]] so he would "rule at [their] side forever".
* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' had J.T. go to Rick's funeral. But only after Manny reminded him that he could never be the bigger man.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E2ParadiseTowers "Paradise Towers"]], the Doctor encounters two girl-gangs, the Red Kangs and the Blue Kangs. Although the two gangs are fierce rivals, when a Blue Kang turns up dead, the Red Kangs hold a memorial for her, declaring, [[WorthyOpponent "Blue was her color, but she was brave and bold as a Kang should be."]] Later both Kangs, [[EnemyMine having buried their feud (along with their grudges against the other groups in the building) to defeat a common enemy,]] gave the same funeral rites to Pex, a wannabe-hero who ends up [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing his life to save everyone else]].
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]]: After the Master's death, the Doctor builds him a funeral pyre and cremates his body.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]]: When [[DisneyDeath it seems]] that a future Doctor who just appeared has died, Rory drapes his jacket over his face before they have to leave.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut "The Impossible Astronaut"]], Amy, Rory and River Song [[spoiler:cremate the Doctor's body]]. It seems to be the Time Lord custom. It is, also, however necessary, because it's mentioned that Time Lord DNA can be dangerous AppliedPhlebotinum if it falls into malicious hands. And it conveniently erases the evidence that [[spoiler:it's not actually his body.]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E5TheTsurangaConundrum "The Tsuranga Conundrum"]]: After General Cicero's death piloting the ship to safety, in the last scene, everyone else gathers around her body to say a few words.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E6DemonsOfThePunjab "Demons of the Punjab"]]: The Thijarians travel through time and space to serve as witnesses to the deaths of those who would otherwise die alone.
* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'': Third season episode "End of Watch" depicts the murder of a Highway Patrolman in New York City. Like current police in the city, they enact the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_Watch_Call End of Watch Call]]". This is where a dispatcher makes one final call to the fallen officer before announcing he is no longer on duty.
* In ''Series/{{Eureka}}'', the crew of the Astraeus is trapped in a LotusEaterMachine to exploit their genius. When [[spoiler:Holly Martin]] figures out what's happened to them, [[spoiler:Senator Winn]] murders her to prevent her from telling the others. Then she orders her goons to dispose of her remains respectfully and discreetly. No one knows where she's buried, but at least the bad guy made an effort.
* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "Bushwhacked", the crew encounter a ship that has had its crew and passengers slaughtered by Reavers. Shepherd Book prevails upon Mal to let him perform a funeral for them. Mal agrees, but privately reveals that the main reason he did so was to keep the others busy and not worry them with the fact that a Reaver booby trap had snagged them and needed disarming before they went anywhere.
-->'''Book:''' How we treat our dead is part of what makes us different from those that did the slaughtering.
* ''Series/HigherGround'': After Riley gets trapped in a cave, she finds there's an ancient corpse inside, which it turns out is of a young Indigenous woman. They find out that her body will have to be examined multiple times so it can be determined whether she'd died five hundred years or more ago. If not, it goes to the local tribe for burial, but that could take a long time. Otherwise, she'd go to a museum. Sully and an Indigenous cop (who told him all this) don't like that, deciding instead to give her a burial in the woods.
* In ''Series/{{Highlander}}'', Duncan casts Darius's ashes into the Seine river, saying it will symbolically allow Darius to complete his unfinished journey to the sea.
* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'': Sailors are usually given a BurialAtSea and most surviving ordinary seamen as well as officers are shown to care about giving them "a decent send off", as bosun Matthews puts it. Captain Sawyer orders to have one poor young seaman thrown over the side without a funeral. Hornblower is reluctant and gets "this" close to disobeying Captain's direct order, but Matthews pleads with him that they can "read over" the dead kid later.
* In ''Series/{{iZombie}}'' Liv feels obligated to solve the murders of people whose brains she eats in the morgue.
* ''Series/KeepBreathing'': Even after learning Sam was a drug smuggler, half the reason she's in the mess she is since no-one's looking for her, Liv still buries him so he wouldn't get devoured by bears.
* ''Series/TheLWord'': Her friends are all very upset when at [[spoiler:Dana]]'s funeral they're not only ignored with her sexual orientation erased by the minister while giving his eulogy, but her ashes aren't scattered how she'd liked, so Alice grabs them after storming out previously, and they scatter them later at the site she wanted.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': In the fourth episode, Jack orders the dead be burned after wild boars start feeding on them. While Sayid objects on the grounds they do not know the religion or culture of the dead, Jack points out there is no other way to dispose of the bodies. The dead are cremated the next night as Claire [[TheDeadHaveNames reads their names aloud]].
* ''Series/LostInSpace2018'': When it comes to light that the Robot was responsible for the attack on the ''Resolute'', Will's father makes Will build a memorial out of stones for the people who were killed. He adds another one to it after ordering the Robot to commit suicide. In a later season, the Robot (he got better) befriends a horse; when the horse is killed by local predators the Robot sets up a stone, to the astonishment of the people present when they realize what he's doing.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** In the ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' episode [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E2HeavyIsTheHead "Heavy is the Head"]], Lance Hunter agrees to sell out Coulson to Glenn Talbot in exchange for his dead friend Isabelle Hartley being buried with full military honours, since as a [[HeroWithBadPublicity SHIELD agent]], she's most likely to be otherwise branded a traitor. He ultimately doesn't go through with betraying Coulson, but luckily Coulson still has friends, and Hartley gets her proper funeral.
** The ''Series/Daredevil2015'' episode [[Recap/Daredevil2015S2E4PennyAndDime "Penny and Dime"]] opens with a wake for the victims of Frank Castle's massacre of the Kitchen Irish, attended by their fellow associates. Finn Cooley shows up, and [[EyeScream kills one underling]] for telling him that his son's death was part of the business. After the opening credits, we see Matt, Karen and Foggy attend a [[LonelyFuneral much smaller memorial service]] for Grotto, who the three had tried and failed to protect from the Punisher after he escaped the massacre.
* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}''
** Uther's body is dressed in formal royal robes and laid out on a stone next to the tomb of his queen. Arthur holds vigil by his father's body overnight.
** Despite [[spoiler: Lancelot's]] apparent evil actions, Arthur insists on him receiving a proper burial, as in all other ways but one he was a good knight. Merlin gives him [[VikingFuneral a good one]], although he is the only mourner.
** [[spoiler: Elyan]] gets an elaborate funeral in Series 4
* In ''Series/MurdochMysteries'', devout Roman Catholic Murdoch always crosses himself when he first comes upon a corpse, whether it's at a reported crime scene, or when someone dies in his presence (such as "Back and to the Left", "Stroll on the Wild Side" and "Tour de Murdoch"). Additionally, he does this at funerals such as the cop's memorial-cum-wake at the bar in "The Great Wall" and the graveside service for [[spoiler: the long-dead Canadian government official]] in "Confderate Treasure". The gesture outs him as a minority Catholic in a Protestant-controlled city, so it is more of a big deal than it seems on the surface. On occasion, other characters do this: the hotel manager in "Return of Sherlock Holmes" performs it when a guest is found dead, and Crabtree tries to imitate his boss at that graveside in "Confederate Treasure".
* [[CreepyMortician Dr. Mallard]] from ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' shows a great deal of respect to those he autopsies, and this includes [[TalkingToTheDead talking to them]] as a means to preserving their humanity. [[BerserkButton He also gets pissed at those who don't show proper respect.]]
* ''Series/NirvanaInFire'': It's set in ancient China, so whether or not the dead have received their due honor is a big deal in the story.
** The Grand Empress' funeral rites are a gigantic days-long affair and the mourning period lasts for a year. When the emperor catches the Crown Prince violating the mourning laws to have a drunken dance party in his private palace, it's the last nail in the coffin of his position.
** The emperor has Consort Jing set up a secret shrine to the dead Consort Chen, who committed suicide after her son Prince Qi's execution, in order to appease her restless spirit and stop his bad dreams.
** When Lin Shu is finally able to perform the proper funeral rites for his dead father it's a very emotional moment.
* ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'': Anastasia closes [[spoiler:Lizard]]'s eyes.
* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'':
** In Season 1, Trica is honored with a wake in the White dorm, and the other dorms provide food. Gloria and the Hispanics drop by with food. Poussey contributes [[MilitaryMoonshiner her hooch]] on behalf of the Blacks, and [[TokenMinority Chang]] drops by with contraband oranges. Boo [[LibationForTheDead makes sure to pour one out for Trica]].
** After the library books are burned due to the bedbugs, Taystee and Poussey hold a (''[[SeriousBusiness completly sincere]]'') funeral for the books, whose ashes are dumped by a tree in "the ultimate book return"
** The blatant disrespect of Poussey's body, being left on the ground for hours, contributes to the inmates's rage.
** ''Utterly'' averted with CO Humpphrey, whose corpse is tossed in a closet and ignored. Leanne outright denies his humanity when she finds him (and then gets high in the same closet).
--->'''Leanne''': Don't be stupid, he's a guard, not a person.
** Following her suicide near the end of Season 7, [[spoiler:Pennsatucky]] is honored with a wake in Florida. The inmates raise a toast of her signature Yellow Drink while wearing hoodies hood-on, the sytle she favored. Suzzane then sings the Mountain Dew jingle. CO Dixon steps in when she can't bring herself to finish it, resulting in ''the entire block'' joining in.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'':
** In "The Grell", an alien race stranded on Earth are treated as slaves, with plenty of FantasticRacism to go around. One such example is that soldiers will often leave the bodes tied to the ground face-up, spitting in the face of traditional face-down burial which allows their souls to move on properly.
** "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S4E21PromisedLand Promised Land]]": In spite of him trying to steal from their farm, Krenn and Dlavan provide David with their people's funeral rites. This includes beheading his corpse though, which only reinforces Rebecca's (who's watching) belief that their kind are monsters.
* ''Series/TheOutpost'': After [[spoiler:Nedra]] dies, Zedd and Wren give her a Blackblood funeral, scattering her ashes as the latter sings a beautiful dirge.
* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "Heroes", PsychoSidekick Tommy gives his life to save Bodie and Doyle when they're pinned down by hitmen armed with automatic weapons. As Tommy is about to be loaded on a hearse with the (now dead) hitmen, Bodie snaps, "No, don't put him in with ''them!''"
* ''Series/ResidentAlien'': Asta cuts off part of her hair to honor Sam's death at Dan's urging, going by their people's traditions, which she stores in a box.
* ''Series/{{Rome}}'':
** The show has several accurate representations of ancient Roman funeral customs. Niobe is cremated and her ashes buried. Caesar is, of course, burned on a huge pyre in the Forum. Eirene asks not to be burned, but buried with hers and Pullo's child, which he does. Pullo later strangles Gaia after she confesses to killing Eirene, and Pullo unceremoniously dumps her body in the river, thus condemning her spirit to unrest.
** After the conquered leader of the Gauls is finally executed during Caesar's Triumph, his body is unceremoniously dumped, but we see some Gauls living in Rome retrieve it, dress it and burn it on a pyre hidden in the woods somewhere.
* ''Series/SeaQuestDSV'' had the crew holding a brief memorial for the staff of an underwater facility who had died several years previously.
* ''Series/TheShannaraChronicles'': After finding some gnomes massacred by demons, Prince Ander unchains the imprisoned Slanter so he may give them the proper rites. It later proved to be a critical gesture to the Elf & Gnome alliance.
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' features multiple funerals throughout its 10 year run.
** Clark usually will make a point of honoring the tradition of slowly dropping a handful of soil on the recently lowered casket. He does this during the highly attended funeral of his adopted father Jonathan Kent, and later trespasses into the private funeral of Lionel Luther to honor him the same way.
** The entire Justice League hold an elaborate funeral in an ancient Egyptian pyramid for their fallen teammate Carter Hall.
* The show ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond'' being a future Earth military environment does a modern naval burial in space complete with the space carrier's laser turrets being used in lieu of a firing party.
* The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise shows many different funerary customs for the various races.
** [[ProudMerchantRace Ferengi]] dice up and sell the bodies of their dead as a souvenir. From the perspective of a society motivated primarily by the acquisition of profit and the belief that absolutely everything worth having has monetary value, ''not'' selling off the deceased's body would be an admission that the person literally had no worth.
** [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Klingons]] will hold open the eyes of a dying warrior and [[DeathWail howl at the moment of death]] [[TheHerald as a warning to the afterlife]] that [[BadassBoast a Klingon warrior is about to arrive]]. After keeping watch over the body for a night (to protect it from predators), once the spirit has had time to make the trip to Sto-vo-kor, they then just dump the body, believing it to be an empty shell, but will celebrate the honorable dead with feasting, drinking and singing. The episode "The Sound of Her Voice" explicitly likened the celebrations to an Irish Wake.
*** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' touched on Klingon death customs a couple times. First, a Klingon can engage in an act of glory to "pay the way" for one who would not otherwise be worthy of Sto-vo-kor (Worf did this for his late wife Jadzia[[note]]by successfully destroying a sizable Jem'hadar base[[/note]]; she normally wouldn't be worthy because she was a Trill who was not killed in honorable battle, but blindsided by Dukat). A later episode featured Kor, an old Klingon warrior who wanted to find a way to avoid dying in dotage; he manages to do so by taking Worf's place in a suicide mission. His sacrifice clears the way for a convoy of Klingons to escape. So Martok (who ''hated'' Kor in life) begrudgingly gives him due: opening a bottle of bloodwine and issuing a toast to "a noble warrior to the end".
*** On the other hand, ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' introduces a Klingon house that gives their dead a proper funeral, which ends with the coffin being placed on the hull of their flagship.
** The Romulan commander in "Balance of Terror" orders the dead Centurion's body dumped into space along with a bunch of debris to [[PlayingPossum make it seem that his ship has been destroyed]] -- but he is clearly distressed about it, and [[TalkingToTheDead asks his late friend to forgive him]].
** In "The Next Phase" Ensign Ro, who is presumed dead after a transporter malfunction (but is just rendered invisible and intangible), worries that Picard will hold a Bajoran funeral, which includes a funeral chant that goes on for two hours.
---> '''Ro:''' Please, not the Death Chant.
*** In the same episode, Data takes on the task of arranging a memorial for Ro and Geordi La Forge (who is in the same situation as Ro for the same reason), and ends up with something resembling a party more than a traditional funeral. Apparently aware of his deviation from tradition, he briefly asks Dr. Crusher if he's made a mistake, but she tells him it's just fine. (For their part, Ro is a little taken aback, but Geordi thinks it's great.)
** The [=DS9=] episode "Ties of Blood and Water" doesn't touch much on traditional Bajoran funeral practices, but still demonstrates the essence of the trope. When Kira's father dies, she immediately begins to dig his grave. The episode ends with the death of a ParentalSubstitute of hers (a Cardassian ironically enough), and reveals that she has buried him next to her father, under the same tree.
** In "Unnatural Selection", the crew of the ''Lantree'' are infected with a rapid aging disease that kills everyone aboard. To keep the disease from spreading, a quarantine transmitter was initiated to play a recorded message for anyone else finding the ship to stay out. When it was concluded that retrieving the bodies for burial would only cause the disease to spread further, the ''Lantree'' was destroyed by a photon torpedo fired by the ''Enterprise'', but not without Picard requesting everyone to stand in quiet respect for the deceased.
** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''
*** One species reproduce by reanimating the dead as members of their own race. Harry Kim becomes angry when he discovers they did this to the body of his love interest; her alien "father" is equally angry that they would have just "abandoned" her into space.
*** In "Emanations", the crew discover a cobweb-filled cave filled with bodies, and Chakotay insists they avoid disturbing the bodies even with scans as it may violate the beliefs of whatever alien race left them -- he cites how how he once removed a rock as a souvenir on an away mission, only to find it was a sacred stone placed in commemoration of the deceased. Turns out he disturbed the bodies anyway, as the cobwebs were created by their decomposition. Then Harry Kim finds himself on the planet where the bodies came from, and they complain about him ''not'' running any scans, as it could have told them what happens after death (they'd assumed that on dying their bodies entered TheLifestream instead).
*** The episode "Juggernaut" briefly shows death rites for the [[LandfillBeyondTheStars Malon]]. When one Malon dies, the other one present touches the dead one's eyes, then his own. No other details or explanations are given.
*** "Nemesis": The Vori turn their dead face down, believing that is required to enter "the gloried Wayafter".
---->"We beg peace from the Power that made us Vori, and we commend our brother Naymon to the gloried Wayafter."
** In the TNG episode "Darmok", after Picard informs the Tamarian crew that their captain, Dathon, has died, they raise their daggers and place their hand on their heads as a sign of benediction. Picard performs this act himself in private in the last scene of the episode.
* In ''Series/Supergirl2015'', after the death of General Astra, her men invite Kara to lead the rites at her funeral. Both sides observe the truce and leave without incident, but then Non warns Kara that the next coffin will be hers.
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', a dead hunter is [[VikingFuneral burned on a pyre]] while surrounded by family or friends so the hunter does not [[CameBackWrong come back wrong]]. Not that it stops things; multiple characters have stuck around in ghost form, anchored to some UnfinishedBusiness.
** The VikingFuneral isn't done for [[spoiler: Dean]] when he dies at the end of Season 3, because Sam reasons that he'll need a body when he finds a way to retrieve [[spoiler: Dean]] from Hell. Instead, he's buried in a pine box with a wooden cross marking his grave, [[spoiler: allowing him to come back when Castiel pulls him out of Hell at the start of season 4]]. [[spoiler: Rufus]] is also buried instead of burned, having insisted on [[spoiler: being buried in a Jewish cemetery]].
* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'': In the ''[[Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman Jetman]]'' tribute episode of ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', the Gokaiger visit Gai Yuuki's grave ([[BackFromTheDead to confirm that he's really gone]]) and find presents left behind by his teammates, including flowers, his favorite liquor, and [[MythologyGag an Ako-chan ramen cup]].
* In ''Series/TeenWolf'', Derek buried his remaining family members (Laura in the Pilot and [[spoiler: Peter in the season one finale]]) under the Hale family house with wolfsbane planted on top, so they can remain in wolf form even after death.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead''. The main characters make a point to honor their fallen friends, and treat the dead with respect. [[TheHeart Glenn]] in particular is a firm believer of this. If anyone they know becomes a Walker, putting them down is often treated as a moral obligation.
** In "Guts" several people chop up a Walker and spread its guts and blood on Rick and Glenn, in order to prevent other Walkers from detecting them. Rick makes a point to read the Walker's name from his driver license, muse on the type of man he might have been, and reminds everyone he was a person like them.
** "Wildfire": Following the attack on the Atlanta Camp, the Walkers that attacked them are thrown in a pile and burned. Their dead however are buried.
** "Nebraska": Sophia is given a proper burial along with Annette and Shaun Greene, but the rest of the bodies are burned.
--->'''Andrea:''' We bury the ones we love, and burn the rest.
** "Say the Word" features a funeral (complete with graves and crosses) for Lori, T-Dog, and Carol, the last of whom is actually still alive.
** "What Happened and What's Going On" has a funeral for Tyresse, with Father Gabriel performing a funeral ceremony, Rick personally digging a grave, and Tyresse's beanie left on the cross as a marker.
* The episode "In Excelsis Deo" of ''Series/TheWestWing'' closes on the military funeral of a Marine veteran of the Korean War. Despite an honor guard and a three-volley salute, it's a LonelyFuneral and terribly poignant. The man was homeless and died of exposure on a cold night. His only living relative was his brother, also homeless. The ceremony only happened because a White House staffer, who had no connection to the deceased other than he used to own the coat he died in, spent the episode pulling strings.
-->'''President's Secretary, Mrs. Landingham:''' Did you use [the President's] name to arrange a military funeral for a homeless veteran?\\
'''Toby:''' Yes.\\
'''Landingham:''' You shouldn't have done that, Toby.\\
'''Toby:''' I know.\\
'''Landingham:''' You absolutely should not have done that.\\
'''Toby:''' I know.\\
''[later]''\\
'''Landingham:''' [[OutlivingOnesOffspring I'd like to come along.]]
* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'': After surviving the attack from the King Of Ghaeldan and his fellow Dragon Sworn, the Aes Sedai camp buried all of the fallen, including the King, at the same place.
* ''Series/TheWilds'': After they believe Nora's dead, the other girls all hold a funeral, with Toni performing an Ojibwe ritual for the dead to let her soul pass.
* ''Series/TheWire'': Sing it with me, "[[Music/ThePogues I'M A FREE-BORN MAN OF THE USA]]"
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* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', after killing Jenny Calendar, Angelus takes her body to Giles' apartment and places it in his bed before the latter arrives. Then, Angelus sets up his living room as if for "romantic evening" with champagne, roses, music and a note that says "upstairs." When Giles arrives he believes Jenny, with whom he has just reconciled, is expecting him...
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield "Battlefield"]], Morgaine puts her invasion of the Earth on hold when she finds a war memorial. When TheBrigadier finds them, they're in the middle of a ceremony to honour their enemy's dead; he agrees to a truce until the ceremony is over.
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* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'': One poor young seaman falls to his death when shortening sails because [[InsaneAdmiral Insane]] Captain Sawyer threatens to have the last man down flogged. He then orders to have him thrown over the side of his ship without a funeral.
-->'''Sawyer:''' Have the lubber thrown over the side. [...] Mr Hornblower, get that man off my quarterdeck.\\
'''Hornblower:''' ''[WithDueRespect, dripping with sarcasm]'' Aye, aye, sir.
* In ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' episode "The Grell", an alien race stranded on Earth are treated as slaves, with plenty of FantasticRacism to go around. One such example is that soldiers will often leave the bodes tied to the ground face-up, spitting in the face of traditional face-down burial which allows their souls to move on properly.
* An episode of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' had the crew get caught up in a conflict between two warring species, at least one of whom brainwashes aliens to serve as grunt troops (in this case, Chakotay) and convince them their opponents are horrific monsters. One of the crimes the "nemesis" soldiers commit in this training is the regular desecrating of fallen soldiers. It is never revealed if this species actually does this, but they accuse their opponents of the very same crimes.
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** Despite having been described in-universe as the most hated god on Mount Olympus, it's revealed in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'' that the other Olympians nonetheless gave Ares a proper resting place, freeing his corpse in ice in the aptly-named Tomb of Ares.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': The Jaegers recovering Lars's body. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070209 And -- "So ven hyu bury him, make sure he gots a hat."]]
** Also, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050513 performing next to dead bodies is disrespectful -- and unhygenic]]
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120402 Moloch insists that those who die in the Castle get buried, not used for experiments.]]

* ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]]'' opens with a traveling salesmen arguing with the town undertaker over the burial of a Native American who died in the street: the salesman is willing to pay for the burial, but no one is willing to drive the hearse up to Boot Hill because a "certain element" in the town objects to having a non-white buried there and is threatening violence. The matter is resolved when Chris and Vin, the first two of the eponymous seven, volunteer to drive the hearse and engage in a brief gunfight with a group of racists who try to stop them from entering the cemetery. The villagers then approach them to ask for help, for men who do that are men who will help them.

* In ''Fanfic/HowTheLightGetsIn'', sometime after marrying [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Dean]], Laurel updated her will to saying she was to get a [[VikingFuneral Hunter's Funeral]]. This was because she wanted to ensure she would not [[CameBackWrong Come Back Wrong]], found the idea of rotting in a coffin horrifying, and was worried about the effects embalming fluid would have on the environment. Her parents, unfortunately had other ideas (see below).

** In ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', Spock's funeral has his body [[BurialInSpace shot out of the torpedo tube]], in a reference to BurialAtSea. The full context (both in the movie itself and over the entire franchise), and especially what happens in the following movie, ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', indicate that this is ''not'' the traditional Vulcan burial rite. Starfleet has been around long enough to build up its own customs and traditions about burial while serving.[[note]]The novelization of the movie stated that Spock's will specified his remains were not to be returned to Vulcan, and that Admiral Kirk decided Spock's torpedo casket was to be fired at the Genesis Planet with the intent the heat of atmospheric entry would cremate Spock's body. ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock The Search For Spock]]'' lends credence to this by having the USS ''Grissom''crew surprised to find Spock's casket intact on the surface of the planet.[[/note]]

** In ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', Spock's funeral has his body [[BurialInSpace shot out of the torpedo tube]], in a reference to BurialAtSea. The full context (both in the movie itself and over the entire franchise), and especially what happens in the following movie, ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', indicate that this is ''not'' the traditional Vulcan burial rite. Starfleet has been around long enough to build up its own customs and traditions about burial while serving.[[note]]The novelization of the movie stated that Spock's will specified his remains were not to be returned to Vulcan, and that Admiral Kirk decided to fire Spock's torpedo casket was to be fired at the Genesis Planet with the intent the heat of reentry would cremate Spock's body. ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock The Search For Spock]]'' lends credence to this by having the USS ''Grissom''crew surprised to find Spock's casket intact on the surface of the planet.[[/note]]

** In ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', Spock's funeral has his body [[BurialInSpace shot out of the torpedo tube]], in a reference to BurialAtSea. The full context (both in the movie itself and over the entire franchise), and especially what happens in the following movie, ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', indicate that this is ''not'' the traditional Vulcan burial rite. Starfleet has been around long enough to build up its own customs and traditions about burial while serving.[[note]]The novelization of the movie stated that Spock's will specified his remains were not to be returned to Vulcan, and that Admiral Kirk decided to fire Spock's torpedo casket was to be fired at the Genesis Planet with the intent the heat of reentry would cremate Spock's body. The ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock The Search For Spock]]'' lends credence to this by having the USS ''Grissom''crew surprised to find Spock's casket intact on the surface of the planet.[[/note]]

** In ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', Spock's funeral has his body [[BurialInSpace shot out of the torpedo tube]], in a reference to BurialAtSea. The full context (both in the movie itself and over the entire franchise), and especially what happens in the following movie, ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', indicate that this is ''not'' the traditional Vulcan burial rite. Starfleet has been around long enough to build up its own customs and traditions about burial while serving.

** Jedi cremate the bodies of their dead on open pyres. ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' has Qui-Gon's funeral, and ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' has Luke burn the body of Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker.

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* The Nobodies of ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', pitiable creatures who vanish into nothingness upon death, erected monuments called "Proof of Existence" in the deepest sanctum of their fortress, simply so they could be remembered. The fact these monuments are shaped like gravestones and slabs, bearing their owner's description and WeaponOfChoice, is no coincidence.

* In ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', the Fremen place the bodies of the dead into machines which render them down and recover their body's water, which is then added to the tribe's stockpiles. This is regarded as not only practical (since water is so scarce on Arrakis that to let the water in a corpse go to waste is pointlessly foolish) but also a way of honouring the fallen Fremen, since they get to continue to serve the tribe even in death. It is considered a particular honour to be allowed to take the water of a non-Fremen, and the Fremen often dishonour enemies by either slitting their throats (thus wasting their water) or otherwise not reclaiming it since it is their way of saying that a fallen foe's water is not worthy of being drunk by the Fremen. When Paul Atreides attends the funeral of Jamis the Fremen are awed when he shows the highest level of respect for Jamis by "giving water to the dead." (A.K.A. crying at the funeral)

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':

** Both Orks and Chaos forces use corpses and heads as trophies. The Orks in particular only do it to enemies they considered worthy of it - think of it as ValuesDissonance.
** There's also the Kroot, who don't go in for skulls so much as rib cuts and sweetbreads. And they do it to their fallen brethren as well as foes. Since they absorb genetic traits from what they eat, [[BlueAndOrangeMorality consumption is an act of respect in their culture]]. The greatest dishonor to an enemy is to be "left on the side of the plate," as it were.

* The ''Franchise/StarWars'' films show us that Jedi respectfully burn the bodies of their dead. ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' has Qui-Gon's funeral, and ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' has Luke burn the body of Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker. Padmé's funeral procession is shown at the end of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', with several Naboo and Gungan dignitaries, including Boss Nass, attending. In contrast, Vader is fond of strangling people, dumping them on the floor, and storming off in a rage.
* The iconic scene in the Australian cult film ''Film/{{Stone}}'' is the biker funeral escort on the F3 Freeway. During the funeral, the deceased is buried standing up, so [[StaringDownCthulhu he won't have to take anything from the Devil lying down]].

** [[spoiler: Amazingly, [[BigBad Silco]] allowed a statue of Vander to be built in Zaun. He [[LibationForTheDead pours out part of his drink]] while commiserating about [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes the difficulties of being a father]].]]

** One of the first sidequests you can get in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' involves the body of a soldier who died on Eden Prime. The soldier's husband wants her body to be released for a proper burial, while the Alliance military wants to hold onto it for study so they can find ways to counteract geth weapons and save more soldiers. The Paragon choice involves siding with the husband.

** Also, in ''Videogame/MassEffect3'', a memorial wall is placed in front of the elevator on the crew deck, so that you can't avoid looking at it when you step out of the elevator. It lists the names of each lost crewmember from the Normandy, and [[AnyoneCanDie as the game goes on,]] the list gets longer.
*** In addition to the abovementioned, ''[[DownloadableContent Citadel]]'' also features a funeral side mission [[spoiler:where Shepard, some crew members of the Normandy SR-2, Commander Bailey, and the Salarian Councilor pay their respects to Kolyat's father Thane (one of Shepard's companions in the second game who [[BackForTheDead died defending the Salarian councilor from a Cerberus attack on the Citadel]]]].
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'', after the climax, Nakmor Drack tries making a toast "to the vanquished". Ryder's teammates don't subscribe to this, and try to interject with their own ideas, until Drack testily states it's ''his'' toast, and it's to the ''vanquished''.
* In ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic X: Legacy'', Pirate King Crag Hack makes a HeroicSacrifice to weaken the BigBad so the player can slay him. At the epilogue of the main game, his funeral, where Governor Jon Morgan - his estranged son - gives the eulogy, is brief but sad:

A wide variety of practices are possible, as in RealLife. Cremation and burial are the most common, but such practices as exposing the dead to vultures and other unusual methods can be done in fiction as in life. Even slicing up the body — usually regarded as mutilation and proof of evil — has been done in RealLife as a means to free the soul from the body and has featured so in fiction. In a similar vein of ValuesDissonance, even the above-mentioned eating of the dead has been a common funeral rite done in real life as a means to allow the dead to live on in their loved ones. Still other cultures have even [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]] this trope, regarding the ''corpse itself'' as an irrelevant lump of flesh now that it no longer houses a spirit, regardless of whatever rites they may or may not perform to commemorate the spirit that left it. Preserving parts (usually bones) of the dead can be the mark of a {{Necromancer}} or of respect, depending on how used; see the SubTrope of DeadGuyOnDisplay.