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7[[caption-width-right:348:Paying dues: [[Film/SchindlersList Stones on Oskar Schindler's grave, left by the descendants of the Schindler Jews]]; [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Luke burning Vader's body on a pyre]]; and [[Series/SixFeetUnder a typical Christian burial service]].]]
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9->''"The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture — it begins in the dignity with which we treat our dead."''
10-->-- '''Creator/FrankHerbert''', ''Literature/{{Dune}}''
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12Funeral rites are the last honor given to the physical remains of the dead, or sometimes if no body is available, the memory of the remains. Funeral rites are regarded as something that is [[TitleDrop due to the dead]] and have for a long time. Indeed, since burials leave archeological evidence, we know that they occurred [[OlderThanDirt as many as 300,000 years]] ago, as a practice among the Neanderthals.
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14These rites have been incorporated in art as a trope, as a mark of character, and is OlderThanDirt, with funeral rites in art from ancient civilizations. In some cases, you can tell whether a group or species is AlwaysChaoticEvil or AlwaysLawfulGood based on how how they mourn their dead. '''Evil''' characters will "mourn" their dead via [[DishonoredDead violating proper treatment]] of a corpse by [[DesecratingTheDead mutilating]], [[OurZombiesAreDifferent reanimating]], or even [[ImAHumanitarian eating]] [[ScavengersAreScum the dead]], though Due to the Dead is one of the most common [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards villains maintain]]. '''Good''' characters will (rarely!) do the same to a dead CompleteMonster or the like, but usually are marked by their proper respect for the dead, down to even letting {{Revenge}} end when the villain is dead; if they have to destroy bodies to contain a plague, or display it to prove that he is really dead, they will often find it DirtyBusiness. Granting proper due can also be show of respect symbolic of a formerly-evil character's redemption; especially when RedemptionEqualsDeath.
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16Even when you put TheFunInFuneral, the humor tends to be dark and the characters nasty.
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18A wide variety of practices are possible, as in RealLife. Cremation and burial are the most common, but [[FreakyFuneralForms 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.
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20One funeral practice, however, will put the characters on the evil side, no matter how respectfully they carry it out: HumanSacrifice.
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22Note that some dead are due more than others. The HeroicSacrifice calls for a well-attended funeral, making TheHero FamedInStory, and perhaps even a monument. Sometimes to mitigate the effect of DyingAlone; WhatYouAreInTheDark may threaten that the hero will die unmourned. Conversely, [[DishonoredDead some are due less than most]]; the CompleteMonster, the DirtyCoward, etc. may be dumped in an unmarked grave with minimal ceremony.
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24On the other hand, some of the living owe the dead more than others. [[ThickerThanWater Family]] and [[TrueCompanions friends]] have a duty to carry this out, often through a ShrineToTheFallen. Strangers who perform such things for the dead are acting out of generosity; a GoodShepherd may perform such rites. Indeed, some [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]] manifest in order to properly reward a total stranger who arranged for the burial.
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26Other ways in which this trope might present itself: closing the eyes of someone who DiesWideOpen; sorting through the deceased's belongings (may result in PersonalEffectsReveal); responding with ManlyTears or TenderTears; a MeaningfulFuneral, when most characters show due respect; a LonelyFuneral, when few; LibationForTheDead; HatsOffToTheDead; DeadGuyJunior; a MoralityChain [[MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave continuing to bind postmortem]]; a determination to [[TakeUpMySword carry on the]] [[TakingUpTheMantle deceased character's work]] or LastRequest; people wearing UsefulNotes/ThePoppy; a heroic soldier being given a DeathbedPromotion; and NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead. [[{{Revenge}} Avenging the dead]] is also common, though it's viewed as less "good" than the other options.
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28However, no matter how beloved the dead, ExcessiveMourning may be decried. Ghosts may complain that it is keeping them from peace, or characters may be criticized for neglecting their duties to the living.
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30Sometimes, usually [[PlayedForLaughs For Laughs]], a person's cremated remains (cremains) will be put in [[Main/ComicallyInappropriateFuneralUrn anything but a real funeral urn]], maybe because they don't have the means to shell out for a proper urn, or are misers.
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32Observing this may be necessary to prevent the deceased from being BarredFromTheAfterlife and coming back as a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]] or other form of TheUndead — which may take the form of an IndianBurialGround.
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34To discuss actual funeral practices, see UsefulNotes/{{Funerals}}. See also InMemoriam.
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36Of course, this being a {{Death Trope|s}}, expect huge '''SPOILERS'''.
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38[[noreallife]]
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40!!Example Subpages:
41[[index]]
42* DueToTheDead/AnimeAndManga
43* DueToTheDead/ComicBooks
44* DueToTheDead/FanWorks
45* [[DueToTheDead/AnimatedFilms Films — Animated]]
46* [[DueToTheDead/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
47* DueToTheDead/{{Literature}}
48* DueToTheDead/LiveActionTV
49* DueToTheDead/{{Theatre}}
50* DueToTheDead/VideoGames
51* DueToTheDead/WesternAnimation
52[[/index]]
53
54!!Other Examples:
55!!!Good
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57[[foldercontrol]]
58[[folder:Art]]
59* In Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti's ''Pietà'', Mary never touches UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}' skin, but rather holds Him with cloth out of respect for His sacred corpse.
60* Norwegian painter Erik Werenskjold's most famous painting, ''En Bondebegravelse'', depicts a farmer's burial. Notably it shows people of simple means doing their best to honor someone in whatever ways they can; The people gathered are few, presumably only close friends and family, here is no priest, since travel takes weeks and they couldn't let the body lie for long in the summer heat, but they have called a school teacher or similar respected figure to read from the bible, and there's a stick in the grave showing that it still needs last rites for whenever the priest has time to visit.
61[[/folder]]
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63[[folder:Ballads]]
64* In some variants of the ''Literature/{{Child Ballad|s}}'' ''Literature/TheFamousFlowerOfServingMen'', the heroine must dig her husband and child's grave. When the magical ending is used, a milk-white hind leads the king to the grave, where a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent bird]] laments how his love had become a serving man, and explains to the king how they had been murdered by the heroine's mother.
65-->''They left me naught to dig his grave but the bloody sword that slew my babe\
66All alone the grave I made, and all alone the tears I shed\
67And all alone the bell I rang, and all alone the psalm I sang''
68* In the Literature/{{Child Ballad|s}} ''The Unquiet Grave'', the true love is mourned for AYearAndADay -- though after that time, the dead have a new demand:
69-->''[[AYearAndADay The twelvemonth and a day]] being up,\
70The dead began to speak:\
71"Oh who sits weeping on my grave,\
72And will not let me sleep?"''
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75[[folder:Card Games]]
76* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' gives us cards like "[[https://scryfall.com/card/2xm/27/remember-the-fallen Remember the Fallen]]", which grant the player either recursion or a bonus for each card in the graveyard. On the evil side, "Phyrexian" cards on these mechanics tend to be flavored as cannibalism or the like.
77* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': The Gravekeepers protect tombs.
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80[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
81* In Creator/AndrewLang's tales:
82** In "Literature/TheBirdGrip" ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20070519223345/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/stories/birdgrip.html link]]), the hero arranges for a man's burial and acquires a fox companion -- who reveals, in due course, that he is a ghost.
83** In "Literature/TheWonderfulBirch" ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20200501091500/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/birch.html link]]), after a WickedWitch had [[ForcedTransformation turned the mother into a sheep]], [[GrandTheftMe taken on her shape]], and gotten the father to agree to kill the sheep, the daughter tells the mother so. The mother tells her not to eat any part of her, but to bury her bones. A birch tree grows from her grave and helps the daughter.
84* This is the premise of the group of folktales and fairy tales classified as ''The Grateful Dead'': the protagonist rescues a indebted man's corpse and provides him with a proper burial, which leads to the man's spirit[=/=]ghost coming back to help him in gratitude. Tales of this type can be found [[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0505.html here]].
85* In "Literature/FairBrow", Fair Brow pays off a dead man's debts.
86* In Creator/TheBrothersGrimm's "Literature/TheJuniperTree" and Creator/JosephJacobs's "Literature/TheRoseTree", when the stepmother kills the stepchild, the little half-sibling refuses to eat the dish she makes of the body and buries the bones.
87* In "Literature/TheKingWhoWouldBeStrongerThanFate", the old woman buries the slave girl's body.
88* In Creator/FranzXaverVonSchonwerth's "Literature/TheThreeFlowers", the three huntsmen kill their little sister's stalker, and then they bury him respectfully in the garden.
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91[[folder:Gamebooks]]
92* Book 8 of the ''Literature/LoneWolf'' series, ''The Jungle of Horrors'', has a few examples.
93** 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.
94** 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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97[[folder:Music]]
98* This is what Music/{{Belly|Band}} song "Feed the Tree" is about, namely, paying respects to a grave where a tree is growing.
99-->"Take your hat off, when you're talking to me/And be there when I feed the tree"
100* The [[LyricalDissonance strangely upbeat]] song ''Revel'', or ''Stand to your glasses steady'':
101-->So stand to your glasses steady\
102this world is a world full of lies\
103Quaff a cup for the dead already\
104and hooray for the next man who dies!
105* The country classic ''Big Bad John'' honors his HeroicSacrifice thusly:
106-->Now they never re-opened that worthless pit,\
107They just placed a marble stand in front of it.\
108These few words are written on that stand,\
109'At the bottom of this mine, lies a ''big'', '''''big''''' man,\
110 Big John'.\
111-->--'''Big Bad John''', Jimmy Dean and Roy Acuff
112* Averted in Emmy Lou Harris' "All My Tears", where the singer/narrator says they don't care where they're buried since it won't have any effect on their conciousness after death.
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115[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
116* ''Literature/TheBible'':
117** One of the few things UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}' followers could do for him was give him an expensive, peaceful tomb. (Not that he was in it for long.) In a preceding scene, Pontius Pilate- coerced into abandoning the innocent man to a mob- insists that Jesus' cross be marked with "the King of the Jews" instead of "this man ''claimed to be'' King of the Jews".
118** ''Literature/BooksOfSamuel'': In 2 Samuel 21, seven men are executed to atone for the attempted genocide of the Gibeonites under Saul. The bodies are left exposed, but Rizpah, the mother of two of the men, stands guard for months and keeps the animals off. When King David learns of this, he gives them a proper burial.
119* Myth/ClassicalMythology:
120** Admetus is holding a funeral for his wife when Hercules visits. SacredHospitality requires Admetus to put Hercules up in his house, whereupon Hercules makes a royal ass of himself. Eventually someone explains to Hercules that Admetus is in mourning, and Hercules is incredibly embarrassed with himself for his behavior. So he [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu hunts down Death, kicks the crap out of him]], and brings Admetus's wife back to him as repayment for how he acted in a house of mourning.
121** The conflict of the last book of ''Literature/TheThebaid'' centers around the women of Argos trying to bury their husbands despite King Creon making that a capital crime. Just like in ''Theatre/{{Antigone}}'', the daughter of Oedipus rebels against Creon in order to bury her brother, but unlike in that play, Theseus and the army of Athens arrive to set Creon straight.
122** In Creator/{{Homer}}'s ''Literature/TheIliad'', Achilles abuses and mangles the corpse of Hector after killing him, in revenge for the death of his friend Patroclus. Achilles' attempt to mutilate Hector's corpse by dragging it behind his chariot three laps around the city was stopped by the Greek Gods themselves, who used their powers to keep the body untouched. They don't agree on much else, but proper treatment of the honorable dead is very high on their standards of behavior.
123* In Myth/NorseMythology: Skald or Scef [[MosesInTheBulrushes drifted ashore as a child]] and became king. When he died many years later, his people sent back to sea on a ship laden with treasure -- described as not less than he had been sent with.
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126[[folder:Poetry]]
127* One surviving work of the Roman poet Creator/{{Catullus}} records his journey from Rome to Anatolia to make sacrifices at his brother's grave. The description of how he feels at the tomb are heart-wrenching.
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130[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
131* The three most common ways of showing dues to the dead are the moment of silence (such as the one All Pro Wrestling had in 2011 for Gulf Coast Wrestling.com's Bob Liddil), the "final ten count" (ten rings of the bell adopted from boxing, used for example to open ''Welcome To The [[Wrestling/{{CZW}} Combat Zone]]'' in 2016) and the minute of applause (such as for Flor De Loto [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCKaMMEin38 in LLF]]).
132* The most famous in pro wrestling was when officials from Japan, North and South Korea gathered together with Wrestling/AntonioInoki to pay their respects at the grave of Wrestling/{{Rikidozan}}. This transitioned into a joint Wrestling/{{New Japan|ProWrestling}} Wrestling/{{WCW}} show that drew the largest crowd on record.
133* Video tribute packages for the recently deceased are also fairly common, the World Wrestling League doing so for both important figures in their history like Perro Aguayo Jr. and even those who never worked for them like Hayabusa and Wrestling/{{Chyna}}.
134* After Jon Huber, known in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling as [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs Mr.]] [[Wrestling/LukeHarper Brodie Lee]], died in December 2020, AEW ran an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodie_Lee_Celebration_of_Life acclaimed memorial show]], and kept him on the [[https://www.allelitewrestling.com/aew-roster active roster]] listing it keeps on its website. He's still listed there to this day, with his win/loss record frozen at his 2020 mark of 11–3, and it's highly likely he'll stay there as long as AEW exists.
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137[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
138* ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'': ReligionIsRight in the medieval European setting, so bodies that are buried by Church ceremony can't be affected by {{Necromanc|er}}y. Jewish and Islamic funeral rites grant the same protection, as do some other faiths.
139* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' 4th Edition: Not a burial place, but the "San Angelo" setting has the Liberty Square plaza. Memorials to several fallen heroes, including the WWII-era team the Liberty Corps, are placed here. Most supers in San Angelo, regardless of where they fall on the hero-villain scale, refuse to fight here out of respect to the dead.
140* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost:'' {{Enforced}} by the Bargain of Winter. While the Ashen Court reigns, any of the [[TheFairFolk Gentry]] or their servants who kill a changeling must mourn their victim's death in some fashion before they can resume fighting. It's mentioned that the rare full battle fought under Winter is a truly surreal sight, especially as most Keepers have no concept of grief or mourning and have to guess at appropriate acts of sorrow.
141* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' presents a strong incentive to give proper Due to the Dead, since failure to provide proper rites will usually anger the corpse's Hungry Ghost (one of the person's souls that remains behind to protect the body) and send it on a rampage. In certain areas, it's also possible to encounter a person's [[OurGhostsAreDifferent other ghost]], who will also likely be pissed off if they didn't receive a proper funeral. Consequently, lavish funeral ceremonies are very widespread and it's common practice to give them even to defeated enemies, for pragmatism if nothing else -- giving your slain foes a sumptuous funeral helps ensure that their ghosts won't come back for another round.
142** The reason non-hungry ghosts value funerals being that even the most basic rites allow one to "live" like a king in the Underworld (paper and wooden effigies carry over as luxurious and possibly magical treasures, food items become never ending, sacrificed animals will be loyal and virtually indestructible sources of food, fur, and labour and so on).
143** The grand funerals given by the Dragon-Blooded to appease the ghosts of the Solars after the Usurpation actually saved the Underworld, if not all of Creation. All of the death and destruction associated with the Usurpation caused the [[EldritchAbomination Neverborn]] to rise from beneath the Underworld with their spectre armies, but since the Solars had their panoplies from life as grave goods, they were able to drive the invasion back.
144* ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' contains card art of [[FakingTheDead the funeral of Baron Blade]], a long-time villain who teamed up with the heroes to defeat the universe-destroying [=OblivAeon=]. [[FlyingBrick Legacy]], the universe's preeminent hero, is delivering a eulogy.
145* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': In the novel "Godeater's Son", the HeroAntagonist Stormcast Eternal goes to quite a lot of trouble to give the Chaos-cultists she kills proper funerary rights in the hopes of keeping their souls from being claimed by the Chaos gods. Given what the Chaos gods are known to ''do'' with souls, even those of their worshippers (''especially'' those of their worshippers) this is quite the PetTheDog moment, though the VillainProtagonist just sees it as Sigmar trying to stake his claim on the souls of people who didn't want him, and it's highly ambiguous if it even works.
146* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
147** Space Marines go to great lengths to recover their dead brothers, and the individual chapters have additional and often elaborate practices to remember their dead. However, the body itself is not really important, the important things are the progenoid glands, that generate and store the geneseed necessary to create new Space Marines, and the expensive and in some cases outright irreplaceable weapons and armor. The exception in regards to the body is if the Space Marine died a particularly heroic death; with some surgery and ancient machinery, they can be interred into a [[MiniMecha Dreadnought sarcophagus]] so they may continue to fight and lend wisdom to the Chapter long after death.
148** The [[SpaceElves Craftworld Eldar]] often risk their own lives to recover the soulstones of the fallen. Good thing, too, as if a soulstone is damaged, the soul is claimed by the evil Chaos God Slaanesh, which is a FateWorseThanDeath. The Eldar even have a career path dedicated to [[HeWillNotCrySoICryForHim expressing the other Eldar's collective grief at the Craftworld's losses]].
149** The Kroot ritualistically consume the bodies of their fallen brethren and of worthy foes. Since they absorb genetic traits from what they eat, [[BlueAndOrangeMorality consumption is an act of respect in their culture]], as it's their primary way of showing admiration for the deceased and allows them to live on through them in a way. The greatest dishonor to an enemy is to be "left on the side of the plate," as it were.
150** The heroic variant was once used to display Abaddon the Despoiler's respect for a WorthyOpponent. The Black Legion and the Blood Angels fought on a planet called Mackan, with the Blood Angels suffering catastrophic losses. One of the few survivors, [[BadassPreacher Reclusiarch]] Jorus, survived in the wilderness with his Death Company, before launching a surprise attack on Abaddon's camp where he slaughtered Abaddon's honor guard and got into combat with the Despoiler himself. When the Black Legion left Mackan, they desecrated the bodies of hundreds of Blood Angels, with one exception: the bodies of Reclusiarch Jorus and the Death Company were unharmed, seated upon thrones made from the armor of the Black Legion troops they had slain that night.
151* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': Priests of the GodOfTheDead Morr are obligated to conduct funeral rites for the dead, most commonly a blessing and burial, to ensure they reach the peace of the afterlife rather than linger as a ghost or be waylaid by the Ruinous Powers. If the priest is powerful enough to [[ReligionIsMagic wield Morr's magic]], the blessing also [[PrecautionaryCorpseDisposal prevents the body from ever becoming undead]].
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154[[folder:Visual Novels]]
155* One potential ending of the Screaming Author case in ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'' has Ban host a short memorial for the child spirit. This is revealed to be because [[spoiler:he lost his own child to a spirit]], and so the mourning serves as sympathetic characterisation for him.
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158[[folder:Web Animation]]
159* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'':
160** After [[Characters/DragonBallSonGoku Goku]] gets his [[spoiler:brain disintegrated thanks to [[EyeBeams Heat Vision]] and powers down to normal form from SSGSS at the end of the rematch]], [[Main/NeckLift his neck]] is let go and he begins falling towards the ground, [[Characters/SupermanTheCharacter Kal-El]] accompanies the falling corpse before grabbing the Saiyan's body and cradling it as he flies towards the ground, choosing and preferring to prevent Goku's body from landing in an undignified crumpled heap.
161** After [[Manga/{{Berserk}} Guts]] DiedStandingUp, his opponent [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Dimitri]] chooses to defend his body from the God Hand which came to claim Gut's soul.
162* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
163** At the end of "Downfall," [[spoiler:after Vernal uses her LastBreathBullet to distract Cinder long enough for Raven to finish her off, Raven takes the time to [[DiesWideOpen close her eyes]] and thank her for her service.]]
164** When RWBY arrive in the city of Argus and one of their companions goes missing, the entire group goes in search of him. Jaune, while searching the city, comes across a statue memorializing [[spoiler:Pyrrha, who died at the climax of Volume 3, proclaiming her a hero]].
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167[[folder:Webcomics]]
168* In ''Webcomic/AmericanBarbarian'', [[http://www.ambarb.com/?p=110 Rick carries the bodies of his father and brothers to their graves.]]
169* ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' uses this as a gag in ''[[http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=223 Stomp]]'', as a form of PlayerPunch[=/=]YouBastard to anyone who's ever played a [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] game.
170* ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', by Ursula Vernon: The Hyena-people eat a portion of the deceased's liver (and possibly other organs) to symbolize that the dead continue on in the memories of the living. How the deceased died, and at who's hands, is also very important - being killed by a member of their own race is practically taboo, and the representative sent to find out who had killed one of their warriors almost has a HeroicBreakdown when she finds out that the folks who did it were also Hyenas. Resolving this so that the warrior is still considered to have been treated with respect is a major plot point and results in the main character (Digger, a wombat) having to eat a chunk of hyena liver [[spoiler:and getting rather ill afterwards; wombats aren't carnivores, and carnivore liver is fairly toxic]].
171** The "skins", lizards that dwell in the cave system where [[spoiler:He-Is's heart is kept]], honor the dead by taking, tanning, and tattooing their skin as an artifact. [[spoiler: After Ed's death, Digger allows them to take his corpse for this purpose, since Ed had befriended the skins as a fellow tattoo artist, and she doesn't have any other way of burying him.]]
172** Regarding the spoiler, Digger also convinces Boneclaw Mother to trick the hyena tribe into honoring [[spoiler: Ed, by implying he's a more distant relative instead of their own nameless exile.]]
173* ''{{Webcomic/Erfworld}}'': [[http://www.erfworld.com/book-1-archive/?px=%2F077a.jpg He insists on a burial even though corpses vanish on their own.]]
174** It appears that, with the existence of [[{{Necromancer}} Croakamancy]] (and later [[spoiler:[[BackFromTheDead decryptian]]]]), it's considered the most due to the croaked is allowing their bodies to vanish, rather than puppeting them around.
175** When Wanda was enslaved to Haffaton, she adopted the practice of setting up monuments for the croaked, regardless of their side, that would carry records of everything of their lives she had managed to learn (a practice that everybody who hears of it finds novel).
176* In one ''Webcomic/FlorkOfCows'' strip, the Crusader berates his colleagues for treating killing like a sport instead of a grave but necesarry duty. He then gets on his knees and starts praying over the corpses of those he's slain.
177* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
178** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070209 Maxim recovers Lars's corpse so that he gets buried properly]] after [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing himself to save Agatha]], and even gives him [[SeriousBusiness his hat]] for good measure.
179--->'''Maxim:''' [[HonoraryTrueCompanion So ven hyu bury him, make sure he gots a hat]].
180** Also, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050513 performing next to dead bodies is disrespectful]] -- [[SkewedPriorities and unhygenic!]]
181** [[GrewASpine Moloch]] insists that [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120402 those who died in the Castle get buried, not used for experiments]].
182--->'''Moloch von Zinzer:''' You [[MadScientist madboys]] can do whatever sick stuff you want on your ''own'' turf, but any one of them could've been you, or ''me!'' We'll treat them with ''respect!''
183* In ''Webcomic/{{Harkovast}}'', the Darsai perform a funeral rite of burying the dead, drinking beer and singing. The bodies of The Nameless (their enemies), they simply burn, since they do not view them as people. Chen-Chen, a Tsung-Dao, finds the concept of burying bodies in the holes in the ground very odd, as her people normally burn their dead.
184* In ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'', the ghosts Secret saw after becoming an Abyssal just wanted some funeral rites. She did the best she could.
185* In ''Webcomic/{{Mulberry}}'', [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=13&pageType=index&seriesID=4 one story]] includes a scene in which Mulberry and her friends attend Series/VeronicaMars' funeral, following the untimely cancellation of Mars' TV show.
186* In ''Webcomic/NipAndTuck'', the ShowWithinAShow ''Rebel Cry'' has [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0716/ the admiral insist on providing a proper funeral for the hero.]]
187* In Franchise/{{Pokemon}} comics based on the ''[[WebComic/NuzlockeComics Nuzlocke Challenge]]'', the player character will often make a stop at Pokemon Tower or Mount Pyre to remember their fallen Pokemon and make offerings.
188* One [[https://www.oglaf.com/alsoelves/ strip]] in ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' has a group of elves attempting to give their prince his last rites by randomly shooting an arrow in order to bury him where it lands. Unfortunately, it lands on another elf's ass, much to the [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe exasperation]] of their not-quite-dead-yet prince.
189-->'''Elf:''' I'm sorry, sire -- it went into somebody's arse again.\
190'''Elf Prince:''' For ''[[PrecisionFStrike fuck's]]'' sake.
191* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
192** When [[spoiler:Roy]] dies in a large battle, TheBard Elan performs a lament mid-fight that moves even some of the enemies to tears.
193** Not to mention the rather impressive gravestone he gives to [[spoiler:Therkla]]: a colossal devil that had recently been TakenForGranite.
194** Durkon [[TearfulSmile cries for joy]] on hearing that his dead body will be returned home for proper burial.
195** [[spoiler:Redcloak has an epiphany during the invasion of Azure City and from then on refuses to allow goblinoids (including hobgoblins) to be raised as zombies, and reduces his reliance on WeHaveReserves into the bargain.]] This is a point of CharacterDevelopment as he had previously been a {{Fantastic Racis|m}}t regarding hobgoblins.
196* In ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'', [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0193.html after the raise dead fails.]] [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0192.html Grief having already been somewhat alleviated by the knowledge that Pauline is happy in the afterlife.]]
197* Webcomic/{{Pibgorn}} [[http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2004/06/12/ Commerating the dead]]
198* In ''Webcomic/TheRedStar'', the train has a sign [[http://www.beyondrealitymedia.com/the-red-star/issue-1/page-8/ silence equals respect]].
199* In ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'', Sandra says one day, let's go see Mom. [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2009/01/15/0025-an-overdue-visit/ Next panel shows her putting flowers on the grave]], and Woo observing that while he was expecting belly rubs, he still is very glad they visited.
200* In Episode Three, ''Webcomic/SpaceKid'' creates a ''ComicStrip/TerryAndThePirates''-esque burial mound of rocks for crash victims.
201* ''Webcomic/{{Strays}}'': [[http://www.straysonline.com/comic/88.htm Meela uses the dead man's cabin to form his funeral pyre.]]
202* In ''Webcomic/ThistilMistilKistil'', [[http://tmkcomic.depleti.com/comic/ch03-pg09/ Coal does not like robbing the dead]].
203* ''Webcomic/{{Underling}}'': [[http://underlingcomic.com/page-ninety-nine/ Adramelech objects to picking up the feathers: "Have some respect for the dead, son!"]]
204* In ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'', the two main religions have incompatible funeral practices, which doesn't help the conflict between them:
205** Ssaelit believe that it degrades the soul to allow a human body to decay, so they take care to burn their dead. In wartime, they even [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch14/ch14_19.html burn the enemy dead]] in the hope that their next {{Reincarnation}} will be a more righteous one.
206** Gefendur believe that they receive their bodies from the goddess Mother Yerta, so they bury their dead to return them to her.
207* Webcomic/WoodenRose: [[http://www.woodenrosecomic.com/comic/chapter4/85.html A funeral with the daughters in mourning]]
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211* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'':
212** [[WebVideo/CriticalRoleCampaignTwo Campaign Two]]: When Mollymauk, a member of the Mighty Nein, is killed in battle in the wilderness, his friends bury him nearby, sharing a LibationForTheDead and marking the grave with his signature coat. Because Molly came back from the dead before through unknown means, Caleb slips a note in his pocket with directions on how to find them if needed. [[spoiler:The Nein later try to revive him, but while they manage to bring him back to life, he lost so many memories in the process that his old personality is pretty much gone, leaving someone new in his place. Kingsley, as he dubs himself, chooses to think of Molly as a brother, and eventually names his pirate ship "The Mollymauk" in his honor.]]
213** [[WebVideo/CriticalRoleCampaignThree Campaign Three]]: When the adventuring party kills TheMole [[spoiler:Bor'Dor Dog'Son]], they give him the standard adventurer's funeral (i.e., [[RobbingTheDead taking his valuables]]), but bury him with sentimental keepsakes like his family portrait and heirloom dagger.
214* When the group leaves for the Northern Crater after [[ItWasHisSled Aerith's death]] in the season 3 finale of ''WebAnimation/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged'', Tifa briefly returns and leaves behind a bouquet of flowers.
215* Even though WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic didn't leave a body behind in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', the TGWTG crew still gave him a funeral in honor of him saving the world. When he comes back, [[CameBackWrong he]] mocks them for it.
216* After the first battle of the Tower in ''AudioPlay/WereAlive'', those who were killed were given a funeral complete with [[TheDeadHaveNames the reading of their names.]]
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222* The painting of Albert Edelfelt: ''Duke Karl Insulting the Corpse of Klas Fleming''. It is depicting a probably fictional episode of the Swedish Civil War when the [[UsefulNotes/NotableSwedishMonarchs Regent Karl]] burst into the room where the body of his enemy, Admiral Klas Fleming's body lay, pulled on his beard and insulted him in front of her widow.
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226* In early episodes of ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'', the ''Bloom Picayune'' would often engage in MaliciousSlander. however:
227-->'''Milo''' ''(typing}'': ''And thereby, our conclusion is that Councilman Hunzinker is a pin-headed old demagogue.''\
228'''Opus:''' Excuse me, sir, I thought you'd like to know that Councilman Hunzinker just kicked the bucket.\
229''(BeatPanel as Milo crosses out what he typed.)''\
230'''Milo''' ''(typing again}'': ''Councilman Hunzinker was a sharp-witted elder statesman.''
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234* In "Literature/TheJuniperTree" and in "Literature/TheRoseTree", the WickedStepmother kills the stepchild, cooks the body, and serves the dish to the child's father.
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238* The typical reaction to the death of an ally or honored friend by [[PlayerCharacter the players of any table top game?]] [[SociopathicHero Strip the dead of anything and everything of any remote value. Even, and especially, if they were a fellow PC.]] A necromantically-inclined PC may even reanimate their body as an undead meatshield.
239** Any class-specific items belonging to a dead PC will likely be handed over to the next person of that class the heroes come across. From a metagaming standpoint, this makes perfect sense (since it's the dead [=PC's=] player's new character); in-character, though, it's pretty weird.
240* ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'': The Dark Powers enforce several gothic horror tropes in the Demiplane of Dread, so violating graves and desecrating corpses are among the many offenses that can attract their attention. For religions that place special emphasis on the sanctity of the dead, defiling a tomb is an Act Of Ultimate Darkness that ''always'' catches their interest. Not that this stops a hell of a lot of necromancers, golem-crafters, ghouls, and other baddies from doing it...
241* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'': The Hollow Mekhet, a vampire variant from ancient Egypt that's [[AnatomyOfTheSoul missing part of their soul]], can only be created from a dead body that was not properly laid to rest. The sample character's progenitor took the simple approach of trashing her gravesite after she was buried.
242* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' (the fantasy version), the necromancer Heinrich Kemmler seems to really get a kick out of desecrating tombs and playing around with corpses. There was this one time when he re-animated a bunch of zombies and then [[BodyHorror merged them together into a spider-like creature]] just to see if he could do it.
243* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
244** 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.
245** The Necrons have the Flayed Ones, who wear their enemy's flesh as a hide (they are batshit insane due to a virus in their coding making them think they're still flesh and blood Necrontyr, and so wear dead people's skins to show off that they are still living).
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249* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', the usual alignment expectations are subverted. After [[spoiler:Vernal's murder by Cinder and Cinder's subsequent DisneyVillainDeath]], Raven takes a moment to close [[spoiler:Vernal's]] eyes and thank her for her service to the tribe. The characters in question are members of a ruthless BanditClan, but they're very much loyal to each other.
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253* In ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'', Meti was killed by her first student, [[spoiler:Incubus]], who chopped her body into pieces and fed it to the dogs outside the city. What makes this more complex is that Meti had remarked that she wanted her body disposed of this way when she died, being TheCynic (in the philosophical sense). Hence, her student might have done this as a mark of respect for Meti, though her second student (and only actual apprentice) disagrees heavily on that point.
254* Tsukiko in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' reanimates plenty of corpses to serve as guards for [[spoiler:the newly-captured Azure City]]. Far later on, [[spoiler:Malack reanimates the corpse of Durkon after being forced to kill him. Although he partially did it because he didn't want to lose a dear friend]].
255* In ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'', [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0258.html Angelika thinks bringing on Emily so soon after Pauline's death is disrespectful.]] Really. Not jealousy at all.
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259* ''WebVideo/OriginsSMP'': Tubbo disrupting Shelby's burial ground to build an alleyway of sorts caused her to return as a ghost.
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