History Main / ILoveTheDead

** One episode had police walk upon what seemed to be a drug rape in the park. The man claimed that he didn't drug her and that he thought she was dead. Fin is understandably extremely disgusted and Rollins has a FlatWhat practically stamped on her face. Cabot later comments "I thought she was dead", which is not a valid excuse, and charges have been filed.

** The "Blush of Life" ability makes the vampire appear alive again, including sexual functions.

* ''Series/ATouchOfCloth'': Played for laughs. In the requisite IdentifyingTheBody scene, two parents come to see their daughter's corpse, and a piece of somber ethereal music plays, which turns out to [[LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn be performed by a choir boy and a keyboard player standing around inside the morgue]]. The crestfallen father kisses his deceased daughter's forehead, before kissing her mouth, and he then kisses her neck. In response, the choir boy and keyboard player switch away from the ethereal music and start performing "[[Music/SergeGainsbourg Je T'aime Moi Non Plus]]" instead, while [[CrossesTheLineTwice the father proceeds to... do things... with his daughter's body]].

* [[PlayedForDrama Turned sad]] in the Music/LindaOrtega song "Lived And Died Alone". The lonely narrator's love for living people has gone constantly unrequited, so she looks for people who died alone and gives them the love they never got in life.

This is when someone has a ''thing'' for dead bodies, namely necrophilia. Do you ''really'' need the [[{{Squick}} details]]?

* The manga ''Delivery of the Dead'' features zombie girls after a zombie apocalypse being used as prostitutes for the erst of the paying public. The girls are effectively dead, given they don't have true cognition and they're just going through motions, but their services are so appreciated that an entire subset of humanity is willing to marry them and restore human rights to the undead.

* In Reiko Momochi's ''Manga/{{Inochi}}'', [[Spoiler:this happenes to the protagonist Nobara's twin sister, Kotori, after she was strangled to death during one of her and Nobara's TwinSwitch moments]].

* ''Manga/PeacemakerKurogane'': Suzu recovers the head of Yoshida (who he had a crush on and who was decapitated during the Ikedaya Incident), has it varnished and carries it around, in a rather affectionate way while talking to it.

* Subverted in ''Manga/SeraphOfTheEnd'' novels when Ferid jokes as he approaches a prostitute's corpse that he finally gets his chance to copulate with a corpse. He sticks his fingers into a prostitute's neck wound which Crowley finds lewd but then he reveals he was just reaching in her neck for a needle which they can use as evidence in their investigation into the murder.

* [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/183015/iron-wills-foalcon-necrophilia-sex-rampage#comment/4242309 Iron Will's Foalcon Necrophilia Sex Rampage]] involves its eponymous protagonist, Iron Will, murdering and then raping the dead bodies of young foals. He also dresses up in his mother's clothes and pleasures himself. This fic features a gratuitous ammount of torture and gorn. For obvious reasons, NSFW.

* This trope is almost mandatory in ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fan works focusing on the relationship between [[HermitGuru Seiga Kaku]] and her {{jiangshi}}, Yoshika Miyako. In some works, the two are depicted as having known each other since before Yoshika's demise, with Seiga [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable keeping her reanimated corpse due to being unable to let go]]. In others they're depicted as never having met prior to Yoshika's resurrection but Seiga loving her "cute puppet" for the brainless, decaying, hollowed mockery of life that she is anyway.

* In ''Film/Angel1984'', it is strongly implied that [[SerialKiller The Killer]] has sex with bodies of his victims after he kills them.

* In the 1944 Creator/BorisKarloff movie ''Film/TheClimax'', Karloff's character, Dr. Friedrich Hohner, obsessed with a beautiful opera singer, Marcellina (June Vincent), with whom he's been having an affair but who wants to break up with him, strangles her to death. Ten years later, ''another'' gorgeous singer (Susanna Foster) whom Hohner has developed an identical obsession with, discovers Marcellina's perfectly-preserved body, which Hohner has kept in a Snow White-like glass-lidded coffin for the past decade. Bonus points for, however delicately, implying even the possibility of necrophilia in a movie - stipulating that it was a BMovie, which tended to not get quite as much attention from the censors - shot during the heyday of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode!

* Another 1940's B-movie (this time starring Bela Lugosi), ''The Corpse Vanishes'', has Lugosi's character drugging and kidnapping high-society brides to whisk off to his mortuary, where he drains their blood for an elixir designed to keep his wife young and beautiful. The process kills the unfortunate brides, whose bodies are discovered stored in morgue drawers by the female protagonist. Lugosi's hunchbacked assistant shows up, forcing the heroine to hide; she watches him (he has previously been seen watching, with obvious excitement, Lugosi drain a bride's blood) sensually caress the dead women's faces, until he himself is discovered by Lugosi, who sends him off with a flea in his ear and several stripes from a cat-o'-nine-tails.

* A major plot point in the CAT-III Hong Kong film, ''Film/DrLamb''. The eponymous villain (nicknamed "Doctor" due to his penchant for dissecting his victims using impromptu medical equipment) is a serial killer moon-lighting as a taxi driver working the night shift, where he will abduct and murder drunk hookers who got on his taxi, take their bodies home the next morning, and have the time of his life with them before dismembering their bodies after they've reached ''rigor mortis'''. But not before cutting off their breasts to be kept in jars of formaldehyde as a CreepySouvenir for each of his kills.

* A variation in ''Film/EbolaSyndrome'': the film's main villain is in the rural outskirts of Johannesburg, where an outbreak of the Ebola disease had occurred in a settlement of tribespeople. Seeing a tribeswoman near the roadside dying of a Ebola with nobody else around, the villain then forces himself on the dying woman just for the thrill of raping a woman, ultimately leading to himself being infected with the titular disease.

* ''Film/{{Faceless}}'': Gordon, Dr. Flamand's [[OrderliesAreCreeps creepy orderly]], is dissecting Mélissa's corpse for disposal. After cutting off her disfigured head with chainsaw, he lifts it up and kisses it.

* Necrophilia is the central theme of the 1962 proto-giallo ''The Horrible Dr. Hichcock'', starring Robert Flemyng as the titular doctor and horror-film legend Barbara Steele as his second wife Cynthia. Dr. Hichcock's first wife Margaretha died accidentally during sex games simulating necrophilia [[spoiler:or so it appears - it turns out the drug that he used on her to simulate death only slowed down her heart rate, and she's been alive all this time]], and the doctor exhibits definite (if discreetly shown, given when the film was made) erotic attraction toward the corpses of several beautiful women, digging up one from her grave at the start of the movie and visiting another one in the morgue.

* In the 1985 comedy ''Film/MortuaryAcademy'', Creator/PaulBartel plays a mortuary owner (and head of the titular school) whose enthusiastic necrophilia is played for comedy. He's introduced giving an romantic monologue to an attractive woman on his slab, but it turns out that she's just roleplaying with him. Later, he falls head-over-heels in love with a pretty cheerleader whose dead body (she choked on a piece of popcorn at the movies) is brought in to the funeral home; he starts his "wooing" off by brings flowers to her body, having a monologue telling her that he wants to take their romance slowly because he's had his heart broken too many times by casual affairs (presumably with other corpses). Several comic sequences follow in which his attempts to enjoy what an archaic turn of phrase termed "the last favors" with the cheerleader's body are frustrated in more and more absurd ways.[[spoiler:He does end up, at the end of the movie, going off for a romantic ocean cruise with his dead sweetheart, though she's rather the worse for wear; it seems he never did get around to embalming her!]]

* In the Danish film ''Nightwatch'' and the 1997 American remake starring Creator/EwanMcGregor, the main character is framed with a false accusation of necrophila. There's a moment of [[Squick]] when [[spoiler:the villain, Creator/NickNolte in the American vision, brandishes a container of semen while threatening the hero with being framed]].

* And another: How did the 90-year old man know his wife was dead? The sex was the same, but the dishes started to pile up.
* A french exemple you can find on the Internet. It goes as follows: the king calls in his executioner who didn't do his job right. He shouts at him for a while. Than the executioner descends into the torture chamber where there's a hung body. He pulls down the pants and...do you really want to know. His assistant looks at him wide-eyed and asks: "What are you doing.
-->Je suis puni, suce-pendu pour deux semaines." (Translation: I'm punished. "Suce-pendu" is an homophone to "suspendu" which means suspended. "Suce-pendu"..."Suce" means "suck" and "pendu" means hung. I think you get the idea.

* In Chuck Palahniuk's ''Literature/{{Lullaby}}'', a necrophiliac EMT gains access to a magical "culling song" that will kill anyone who it is sung to. The EMT goes in a killing spree, murdering models to have sex with them. Also, [[spoiler: the narrator unwittingly used the song to kill his wife, then had sex with her thinking she was half asleep.]]

* Brian Lumley's ''Literature/{{Necroscope}}'' sequence gives us Johnny Found, a necrophile who is also a necromancer. In Lumley's universe, what this boils down to is that whatever he's doing to the corpse, the soul or spirit of the dead person feels it as if they were still alive. It's so bad that despite seeing, fighting and killing some of the foulest abominations ever to walk the cosmos, Harry Keogh "wished he hadn't bothered" to tap the memories of the after-death experience of the latest victim.
* Rick Koster's 2012 comedic novel ''Poppin' A Cold One'' is all about this trope PlayedForLaughs. The protagonist, a mortician in New Orleans, moves to a Mississippi town to take over a funeral home (in large part to be able to live closer to his girlfriend), and gets mixed up with a criminal ring using the dead bodies of attractive young women sent to the mortuary to be embalmed and prepared for their funerals as subjects for necrophiliac porn movies.

* Jewels in ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}'' occasionally sleeps with the team's [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Lifeless]], since it was made from the body of her lover, Arsteel.

** The pilot episode has an offhand comment about the squad getting a call about two men having sex with a corpse, much to Cragen's disgust. A later episode has Cassidy testifying in a necrophila case (possibly the same one), where among other things, it turns out he doesn't know the proper term for this act.
** In one episode, a woman who'd been in a coma for five years turned out to be pregnant. One of the suspects was a security guard who'd been fired from a funeral home for unclear reasons, though those reasons became a lot more clear when the detectives tracked down a hooker who said the guard had asked her to lie in a tub of ice water before engaging in... relations. After that, it was discovered that the funeral home caught him on camera. The funeral home previously thought he was a grave robber. For the record, he didn't do it, as apparently comtatose is still too alive for him be turned on. (Like ''Series/CriminalMinds'' above, ''weird'' fetishes).
** One episode had police walk upon what seemed to be a drug rape in the park. The man claimed that he didn't drug her and that he thought she was dead. Fin is understandably extremely disgusted and Rollins has a FlatWhat practically stamped on her face. Cabot later comments "I thought she was dead" is not a valid excuse, and charges have been filed.

* Played with for laughs in an episode of the 1990s TV series ''One West Waikiki'', starring Cheryl Ladd. A bookie is trying to recover a valuable key from the body of his girlfriend (killed in a hit-and-run accident) and sends his henchman to the local morgue to do so. The henchman finds the woman's body (nude except for plastic wrapping), and starts to remove the necklace she's wearing (which holds the key), but knocks over the rack on which the body is stored by accident, and finds himself on the floor, holding the woman's corpse. The series' lead characters enter the room at this point. HilarityEnsues. (The girlfriend had, just before she herself gotten killed, accidentally shot another girl that she found her boyfriend two-timing her with; the young woman's body is later shown having literally been [[BodyInABreadbox hidden in the bookie's refrigerator]], though in this case the motive is not necrophilia, but concealing evidence.) At one point, the body is shown to a client as a threat to compel the client to pay his gambling debts.
* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'': In season 4 Lolly kills a guard who was trying to strangle Alex to death. As they panic over how to hide the body they hear a phone from the guards pocket. They see its a text from the guy who ordered the hit and he demands a picture of Alex's dead body. Lolly takes a picture of Alex playing dead and they send the guy the photo. The guy then sends a text saying "Show me her titties" which implies he gets aroused from looking at a dead girls boobs. At Lolly's insistence, they take a picture of Alex looking dead with her chest bare much to Alex's disgust.

-->"To be beautiful is to be almost dead, isn’t it? The lassitude of the perfect woman: the languid ease, the obeisance. Spirit trained, anemic, pale as ivory and weak as a kitten. There’s a brisk trade for photographs of dead women. Did you know that? In certain quarters, corpses are improved with cosmetics and posed in postures of abject surrender, and photographed. Men circulate the pictures and pleasure themselves. Mmmm, such exquisiteness!"

* ''Series/ATouchOfCloth'': Played for laughs. In the requisite IdentifyingTheBody scene, two parents come to see their daughter's corpse, and a piece of somber etheral music plays, which turns out to [[LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn be performed by a choir boy and a keyboard player standing around inside the morgue]]. The chestfallen father kisses his deceased daughter forehead, before kissing her mouth, and he then kisses her neck. In response, the choir boy and keyboard player switches away from the etheral music and start performing "[[Music/SergeGainsbourg Je T'aime Moi Non Plus]]" instead, while [[CrossesTheLineTwice the father proceeds to... do things... with his daughter's body]].

* Music/GGAllin FUCKS the dead. No, really, "Fuck the Dead" is the name of his song. Seems he heard the above mentioned TropeNamer song and decided it wasn't even remotely graphic enough.

* Music/{{GWAR}} are explained to be this, along with pedophiles, zoophiles, and every other -phile out there....

* The Music/GetoBoys song "Mind of a Lunatic" which is about necrophilia [[spoiler: of course this is after Bushwick Bill brutally rapes and murder her by slitting her throat and watching her choke and bleed to death]]

* [[PlayedForDrama Turned sad]] in the Music/LindaOrtega song "Lived And Died Alone". The lonely narrator's love for living people has gone constantly unrequited, so she looks for people who died alone and give them the love they never got in life.

* ''Hel'' in Myth/NorseMythology is blatantly stated to have had intercourse with the body of a dead king. This is clarified to have taken place in the world of the living. She did not have her way with him in Helheim, she did it Midgard.

** Also, Bambi "Buck" Hughes, the [[TheBogan crass Australian]] PsychoForHire and DepravedHomosexual. After Jason finds out that [[spoiler:he's keeping Jason's friend Keith as a SexSlave]], Buck cheerfully decides IHaveYouNowMyPretty, and prepares to "show (his) appreciation... proper, like a man should." When Jason gets righteously enraged, Buck pulls a Chinese knife on him, and warns Jason "I'll take you bloody if you like. I like me meat rare!"

* ''VideoGame/{{Phasmophobia}}'' has a spirit box that is used to determine the type of ghost, usually when it responds to questions such as "What do you want" (giving an agressive response) or "are you close" (giving a location). One of the supported questions is "are you horny", which gives a random response.

* After killing his Ordeal, a copy of himself embodying all of his evil, Black Mage of ''WebComic/EightBitTheater'' suggested that he ''had'' been looking for a way to turn self-love into an atrocity. While we thankfully aren't shown how he does it, Thief wounded up getting blackmail pictures of it.

* One ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' post has a man upset because his father keeps having sex with the man's mother "against her will." Another man stars expressing sympathy until he remembers the first man's mother recently died. He agrees and points out that her [[ExactWords will]] explicitly said "No sex."

** While he is not at all interested in such relationship, she does not give up easily.

-->'''Tsukiko''': And one night, as we're scribing spells by candlelight, his bony hand will brush against my-

* ''Series/ATouchOfCloth'': Played for laughs. In the requisite "parents visit their daughter's corpse" melodrama scene, the choir boy in the scene who's singing the somber piece suddenly switches to porno music, [[CrossesTheLineTwice which causes the father to do... things... with his daughter's body]].

* The Music/GetoBoys song "Mind of a Lunatic" which is about necrophilia [[spoiler: of course this is after Bushwick bill brutally rapes and murder her by slitting her throat and watching her choke and bleed to death]]

* In ''Film/SuperheroMovie'', Leslie Nelson's character is so devastated by the death of his wife Lucille that he humps her body during her funeral in front of everybody. When it's revealed that the body in the casket isn't his wife but actually the body of an attractive young woman, he tells everyone "give me five minutes" and continues until he's forced out of the casket, though not before he's removed her bra.

* In ''Film/ShootEmUp'', Paul Giamatti's character fondles the bare breast of a murdered woman. He looks a little ashamed of himself afterward, [[EurekaMoment though it does inspire him to figure out the hero's next move]] (with the mother dead, the hero needs someone else to feed the baby).

* ''Film/ColdMoon'' is a French film (entered into Cannes no less) based on two Creator/CharlesBukowski stories. The third act is a straight adaptation of "The Copulating Mermaid of Venice, California," in which the two ne'er-do-well main characters drunkenly steal a corpse from the back of a coroner's truck as a prank, only to discover that it's a beautiful naked woman. They each have sex with it and eventually decide to dispose of the body by pushing it out into the ocean, but not before one of them has fallen in love with the corpse.

-->"If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing. And, if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order."

* In Reiko Momochi's Inochi, [[this happened to the protagonist Nobara's twin sister, Kotori after she was strangled to death during one of her and Nobara's TwinSwitch moments]].
* ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'' is about a zombie with a supernatural harem.

* Heavily implied to be the case with the [[CompleteMonster Loathsome Dung Eater]] in ''VideoGame/EldenRing''. It's [[NoodleIncident left vague]] exactly ''what'' he does, but he's HatedByAll for routinely DesecratingTheDead in a manner so vile [[AndIMustScream the souls of his victims can't reincarnate or move on]] or come back as cursed abominations. Which, [[AxCrazy for equally unclear reasons, is exactly his goal]].

* Heavily implied to be the case with the [[CompleteMonster Loathsome Dung Eater]] in ''VideoGame/EldenRing''. It's [[NoodleIncident left vague]] exactly ''what'' he does, but he's HatedByAll for routinely DesecratingTheDead in a manner so vile [[AndIMustScream the souls of his victims can't reincarnate or move on]]. Which, [[AxCrazy for equally unclear reasons, is exactly his goal]].

* In ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'', if Fiona dies at the hands of Riccardo, [[HellIsThatNoise the sounds]] with the game over screen implies that Riccardo ''has sex with her lifeless body''.

* Played with for laughs in an episode of the 1990s TV series ''One West Waikiki'', starring Cheryl Ladd. A bookie is trying to recover a valuable key from the body of his girlfriend (killed in a hit-and-run accident) and sends his henchman to the local morgue to do so. The henchman finds the woman's body (nude except for plastic wrapping), and starts to remove the necklace she's wearing (which holds the key), but knocks over the rack on which the body is stored by accident, and finds himself on the floor, holding the woman's corpse. The series' lead characters enter the room at this point. HilarityEnsues. (The girlfriend had, just before she herself gotten killed, accidentally shot another girl thst she found her boyfriend two-timing her with; the young woman's body is later shown having literally been [[BodyInABreadbox hidden in the bookie's refrigerator]], though in this case the motive is not necrophilia, but concealing evidence.) At one point, the body is shown to a client as a threat to compel the client to pay his gambling debts.

* Downplayed in the ''WesternAnimation/6teen'' episode "Labour Day Part B", where Jude chats with a dead body and acts friendly towards it.

* We would be remiss if we forgot (no matter how hard we try to) ''TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}'' and its spell to make the corpse ''feel'' alive?

* And, of course, how could we (no matter how hard we try to) forget ''TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}'' and its spell to make the corpse ''feel'' alive?

* Heavily implied to be the case with the [[CompleteMonster Loathsome Dung Eater]] in ''VideoGame/EldenRing''. It's [[NoodleIncident left vague]] exactly ''what'' he does, but he's HatedByAll for routinely DesecratingTheDead in a manner so vile [[DeaderThanDead the souls of his victims can't reincarnate or move on]]. Which, [[AxCrazy for equally unclear reasons, is exactly his goal]].

*** It's also implied in the Dark Brotherhood questline. You don't ever speak to the Night Mother, you "embrace" her. [[ParentalIncest She also refers to herself as your mother.]]

** Also, Bambi "Buck" Hughes, the [[TheBogan crass Australian]] PsychoForHire and DepravedHomosexual. After Jason finds out that [[spoiler:he's keeping Jason's friend Keith as a SexSlave]], Buck cheerfully decides IHaveYouNowMyPretty, and prepares to "show (his) appreciation... proper, like a man should." When Jason gets righteously enraged, Buck pulls a Chinese knife on him, and warns Jason "I'll take you bloody if you like. I like me meat rare!"

->I love the dead before they rise
->No farewells, no goodbyes
->I never even knew your rotting face
->While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave
->I have other uses for you, darling

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Stanny Tendergrass", Roger jokes about having sex with a woman [[GoldDigger that he married for her fortune]] after he took her off life support.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': In an extremely derogatory song about the Boglins: "They also [[BlackComedyCannibalism eat]] and fuck their dead!"

* On ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'', in an extremely derogatory song about the Boglins: "They also [[BlackComedyCannibalism eat]] and fuck their dead!"

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