History Main / AttendingYourOwnFuneral

* More like [[spoiler:"Attending Your Own Wake"]]: In ''TalesOfMonkeyIsland Chapter 5: Rise of the Pirate God'', [[spoiler:when Guybrush (as a ghost) goes through a rip in the Crossroads to Club 41 ''before'' going to the Manatee Mating Grounds in order to find the Voodoo Lady's locket (via another rip), Bugeye tells him to be quiet when he and W.P. Grindstump are "in the middle of a pirate wake", and Guybrush sees his own body [[CrowningMomentOfFunny holding a dartboard and wearing a party hat]]. He can look around the club and talk to Grindstump to find out what had happened after Guybrush died at the hands of [=LeChuck=]. Afterwards, he can exit his own wake and continue on in his quest to get back in his own body, as before.]]

* Geordi and Ensign Ro did this once in ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.

* Played straight in the pilot of ''[[Series/TheCape The Cape]]'' when Faraday peeps in on his own funeral after being presumed dead.

* A recent commercial for whiskey tells the story of a man, John Jameson, who dived into the ocean to rescue one of his kegs and presumably died. The next scene shows his funeral with the narrator telling us "All of [[{{Oirland}} Ireland]] was in attendance, including... John Jameson." Jameson is then seen walking up the beach front holding the keg.

* A recent commercial for whiskey tells the story of a man, John Jameson, who dived into the ocean to rescue one of his kegs and presumably died. The next scene shows his funeral with the narrator telling us "All of [[Oirland Ireland]] was in attendance, including... John Jameson." Jameson is then seen walking up the beach front holding the keg.

* A recent commercial for whiskey tells the story of a man, John Jameson, who dived into the ocean to rescue one of his kegs and presumably died. The next scene shows his funeral with the narrator telling us "All of Ireland was in attendance, including... John Jameson." Jameson is then seen walking up the beach front holding the keg.

* A variant from BBC comedy ''The Burkiss Way'': The reading of Lord Hackingbottmo's will is disrupted when someone points out that he's the one reading it. (Note that this only happens after the reading has already a) included a long list of people who haven't been left anything and b) turned into a spontaneous performance of ''Chattanooga Choo-choo''.)

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* In ''{{Bones}}'', Booth fakes his own death, attends his funeral as a member of the twenty-one gun salute, and outs himself by apprehending a suspect.

* Variation on ''[[ThirtyRock 30 Rock]]''. After Jenna was misreported as dead, Jack saw it as a gimmick to sell her latest movie and set up a memorial for her on TheShowWithinTheShow. Jenna watched this for awhile, but eventually came on stage to wreck it after realizing her real age would be mentioned.

* Stroker faked his own death, as well as his son's and CARR's, once on StrokerAndHoops in order to avoid a gang of ninjas, an then secretly attended his own funeral.