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* When he is [[SealedGoodInACan released from his sarcophagus]] near the beginning of ''VideoGame/BaldursGate3'', [[MysteriousStranger Withers]] asks the PC, "What is the value of a single mortal life?" If the player chooses to answer that all lives have equal value, Withers responds, "In death, this is true." [[spoiler:And since it is ''very'' heavily implied that Withers is [[GodWasMyCopilot Jergal]], the former God of the Dead, he would know.]]

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* When he is [[SealedGoodInACan released from his sarcophagus]] near the beginning of ''VideoGame/BaldursGate3'', ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', [[MysteriousStranger Withers]] asks the PC, "What is the value of a single mortal life?" If the player chooses to answer that all lives have equal value, Withers responds, "In death, this is true." [[spoiler:And since it is ''very'' heavily implied that Withers is [[GodWasMyCopilot Jergal]], the former God of the Dead, he would know.]]
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* When he is [[SealedGoodInACan released from his sarcophagus]] near the beginning of ''VideoGame/BaldursGate3'', [[MysteriousStranger Withers]] asks the PC, "What is the value of a single mortal life?" If the player chooses to answer that all lives have equal value, Withers responds, "In death, this is true." [[spoiler:And since it is ''very'' heavily implied that Withers is [[GodWasMyCopilot Jergal]], the former God of the Dead, he would know.]]
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* ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'': This is part of Pembleton's philosophy; he sincerely feels that this trope applies to everyone, and works diligently to investigate murders regardless of who the victim was in life because he feels all deaths are a tragedy.
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* ''Series/{{Blackadder}} Goes Forth'': This trope is why Blackadder [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness uncharacteristically]] treats Darling with kindness and respect instead of his usual taunts and mockery right before the big push that will kill them: at that moment he doesn't see his SitcomArchnemesis who's been antagonizing him all series, he sees a fellow soldier about to die for a pointless war on the orders of a mad ArmchairMilitary general.
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* A cynical version appears in ''Literature/BestServedCold''. Morza tells Shivers that good people turn into the exact same kind of corpses as bad people, so there's no point in trying to be good.
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* Addressed in the very first page of the miniseries ''ComicBook/MortTheDeadTeenager'', where Mort complains about his fate being unfair and Teen Death replies that there's no one more equal-opportunity than himself.
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* An old anti-racism PSA used this effectively.

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* An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_8v8FPVlL0 "Stop the Hate"]], an old anti-racism PSA used this effectively.



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* ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "The Passersby" depicts a similar scenario with UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar dead, ending with [[spoiler: UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln]]

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* ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "The Passersby" depicts a similar scenario with UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar dead, ending with [[spoiler: UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln]]UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln]].
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Because this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, there will be spoilers ahead.

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Because !!As this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, there will be [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers ahead.
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-->'''Announcer:''' Here's one place where it doesn't matter who your neighbor is.
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* ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchives'': Halara Nightmare firmly believes this, explicitly saying that they only trust the dead. As for the ''living'', they [[HatesEveryoneEqually hate everyone equally as well]].

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* ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchives'': ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'': Halara Nightmare firmly believes this, explicitly saying that they only trust the dead. As for the ''living'', they [[HatesEveryoneEqually hate everyone equally as well]].
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* ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchives'': Halara Nightmare firmly believes this, explicitly saying that they only trust the dead. As for the ''living'', they [[HatesEveryoneEqually hate everyone equally as well]].
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Statistics regarding life expectancy tell people - WeAllDieSomeday, and people say we will all be treated equally by and in it. It doesn't matter if you're a master or a slave, a sinner or a saint, man or woman, a bishop or knave, white or black--or how the deceased are treated by others around--you might still say everyone is all treated the same. Hence death is often called "The Great Leveler", for all and their distinctions be leveled. Either the {{funeral|Tropes}}s or the {{afterlife|tropes}} (if any) must be the same for everyone, whichever is used last in the work.

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Statistics regarding life expectancy tell people - -- WeAllDieSomeday, and people say we will all be treated equally by and in it. It doesn't matter if you're a master or a slave, a sinner or a saint, man or woman, a bishop or knave, white or black--or black -- or how the deceased are treated by others around--you around -- you might still say everyone is all treated the same. Hence death is often called "The Great Leveler", for all and their distinctions be leveled. Either the {{funeral|Tropes}}s or the {{afterlife|tropes}} {{afterlife|Tropes}} (if any) must be the same for everyone, whichever is used last in the work.



Note that this goes one step further than that everyone, in at least a given setting, is going to die--everyone must be treated the same as well. Even a statement that everybody is judged the same way implies a weakening of this trope. If everyone has the same funeral, but then go to different afterlives, then the trope is subverted. Put another way, this is AnAesop that all differences among people are erased upon death.

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Note that this goes one step further than that everyone, in at least a given setting, is going to die--everyone die -- everyone must be treated the same as well. Even a statement that everybody is judged the same way implies a weakening of this trope. If everyone has the same funeral, but then go to different afterlives, then the trope is subverted. Put another way, this is AnAesop that all differences among people are erased upon death.

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Come to death and follow me.''\\

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Come to death and follow me.''\\''
* "Auf dem Hügel" by Music/SubwayToSally describes a cemetery where everyone, parents and children, murderers and righteous men, "sleep" side by side.
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* Once he's fully gone 'round the bend and turned AxeCrazy, Eddie of ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' espouses this as part of the reason why he's gone on a killing spree.

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* Once he's fully gone 'round the bend and turned AxeCrazy, AxCrazy, Eddie of ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' espouses this as part of the reason why he's gone on a killing spree.

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* In an early draft of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'', it was planned that the Great Prince showed Bambi the charred corpse of a hunter after the forest fire scene, showing Bambi that even [[HumansAreCthulhu Man]] cannot escape [[TheGrimReaper Death]]'s clutches. However, the scene was cut on Walt Disney's orders, as he felt it was too graphic for a children's movie.
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* One of the few things that makes sense in ''Film/{{Zardoz}}''. [[spoiler:By the end of the film, every named character, whether immortal Eternal or barbarian Brutal, has died, whether it be from gunshot or old age.]]
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* This is what makes [[TheGrimReaper Death]] a [[DontFearTheReaper sympathetic character]] in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels; he isn't cruel or sadistic, he's just good at his job, and he performs it efficiently and without favour (mostly).

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* This is what makes [[TheGrimReaper Death]] a [[DontFearTheReaper sympathetic character]] in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels; he isn't cruel or sadistic, he's just good at his job, and he performs it efficiently and without favour (mostly). [[spoiler:In fact, the Disc's reality almost breaks down when his apprentice [[Literature/{{Mort}} Mort]] can't bring himself to reap a young princess who's destined to be assassninated like her father on the orders of her EvilUncle.]]
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* This is what makes Death a sympathetic character in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels; he isn't cruel or sadistic, he's just good at his job, and he performs it efficiently and without favour (mostly).

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* This is what makes Death [[TheGrimReaper Death]] a [[DontFearTheReaper sympathetic character character]] in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels; he isn't cruel or sadistic, he's just good at his job, and he performs it efficiently and without favour (mostly).
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Statistics regarding life expectancy tell people - WeAllDieSomeday, and people say we will all be treated equally by and in it. It doesn't matter if you're a master or a slave, a sinner or a saint, man or woman, a bishop or knave, white or black--or how the deceased are treated by others around--you might still say everyone is all treated the same. Hence death is often called "The Great Leveler", for all and their distinctions be leveled. Either the [[FuneralTropes funerals]] or the [[AfterlifeTropes afterlife]] (if any) must be the same for everyone, whichever is used last in the work.

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Statistics regarding life expectancy tell people - WeAllDieSomeday, and people say we will all be treated equally by and in it. It doesn't matter if you're a master or a slave, a sinner or a saint, man or woman, a bishop or knave, white or black--or how the deceased are treated by others around--you might still say everyone is all treated the same. Hence death is often called "The Great Leveler", for all and their distinctions be leveled. Either the [[FuneralTropes funerals]] {{funeral|Tropes}}s or the [[AfterlifeTropes afterlife]] {{afterlife|tropes}} (if any) must be the same for everyone, whichever is used last in the work.
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Statistics regarding life expectancy tell people - {{We all die someday}}, and people say we will all be treated equally by and in it. It doesn't matter if you're a master or a slave, a sinner or a saint, man or woman, a bishop or knave, white or black--or how the deceased are treated by others around--you might still say everyone is all treated the same. Hence death is often called "The Great Leveler", for all and their distinctions be leveled. Either the [[FuneralTropes funerals]] or the [[AfterlifeTropes afterlife]] (if any) must be the same for everyone, whichever is used last in the work.

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Statistics regarding life expectancy tell people - {{We all die someday}}, WeAllDieSomeday, and people say we will all be treated equally by and in it. It doesn't matter if you're a master or a slave, a sinner or a saint, man or woman, a bishop or knave, white or black--or how the deceased are treated by others around--you might still say everyone is all treated the same. Hence death is often called "The Great Leveler", for all and their distinctions be leveled. Either the [[FuneralTropes funerals]] or the [[AfterlifeTropes afterlife]] (if any) must be the same for everyone, whichever is used last in the work.
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* Sunako from ''Manga/{{Shiki}}'' holds this view on death:

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* Sunako from ''Manga/{{Shiki}}'' ''Literature/{{Shiki}}'' holds this view on death:
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* Death from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' is a rather benevolent version of this trope, she never misses the opportunity to say that everybody dies at the end, but for the same reason and since she knows everything about everyone, she never hates anyone, they are all the same to her but because she knows them all.

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* Death from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' is a rather benevolent version of this trope, she never misses the opportunity to say that everybody dies at the end, but for the same reason and since she knows everything about everyone, she never hates anyone, they are all the same to her but because she knows them all.
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* A theme of Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's short story "Literature/{{Aftermaths}}", showing the crew of a space ship that is out reclaiming the dead bodies after a space battle.

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* A theme of Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' short story "Literature/{{Aftermaths}}", "Aftermaths", showing the crew of a space ship spaceship that is out reclaiming the dead bodies after a space battle.

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* The god [[http://oglaf.com/sithrak/ Sithrak]] in ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' will supposedly treat everyone equally, by torturing them forever (allegedly). When one of his worshippers dies, Sithrak sends him back with a message that he doesn't mean all that torture stuff. The disciple concludes that Sithrak also plays mind games on the living, to the delight of his fellows.

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* ''Webcomic/FireEmblemHeroesADayInTheLife'': In "The Strongest Refutation", [[TheSocialDarwinist Sonia]] believes there are two types of people: those who lead, and those who serve. She is refuted by [[{{Psychopomp}} Hel]], who believes all mortals are the same as they are all powerless before death.
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