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* Weapoinzed in ''Manga/MusukoGaKawaikuteShikataganaiMazokuNoHahaoya''. After Byakuren is killed, her younger brother Cochrane requests that her coffin be sunk to bottom of the ocean. And since their SwapTeleportation powers continue to function even after her death, this means that a young boy who has been driven practically feral out of grief has access to what is essentially a OneHitKill (though the one person he actually does manage to use it on is tough enough to survive the water pressure and return to the surface without drowning). The coffin is later retrieved following the final battle so she can be given a more proper burial.

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* Weapoinzed Weaponized in ''Manga/MusukoGaKawaikuteShikataganaiMazokuNoHahaoya''. After Byakuren is killed, her younger brother Cochrane requests that her coffin be sunk to bottom of the ocean. And since their SwapTeleportation powers continue to function even after her death, this means that a young boy who has been driven practically feral out of grief has access to what is essentially a OneHitKill (though the one person he actually does manage to use it on is tough enough to survive the water pressure and return to the surface without drowning). The coffin is later retrieved following the final battle so she can be given a more proper burial.
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* Weapoinzed in ''Manga/MusukoGaKawaikuteShikataganaiMazokuNoHahaoya''. After Byakuren is killed, her younger brother Cochrane requests that her coffin be sunk to bottom of the ocean. And since their SwapTeleportation powers continue to function even after her death, this means that a young boy who has been driven practically feral out of grief has access to what is essentially a OneHitKill (though the one person he actually does manage to use it on is tough enough to survive the water pressure and return to the surface without drowning). The coffin is later retrieved following the final battle so she can be given a more proper burial.
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* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'', this is what Diamond Dogs arranges to do with the victims of the second parasite outbreak on Mother Base. Venom Snake reconsiders at the last moment, however, and instead has their ashes converted into diamonds as a means of immortalizing them.
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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart]]", while Bruce was [[StalkerWithACrush spying]] on Claudia, he had observed her dumping the bodies of her human prey into the Missouri River, so when they meet, he informs her that she was being careless.

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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart]]", while Bruce was [[StalkerWithACrush spying]] on Claudia, he had observed witnessed her dumping the bodies of her human prey into the Missouri River, so when they meet, he informs her that she was being careless.
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* ''Film/TheBounty'': One of the sailors on the ''Bounty'' is buried at sea while the ship is sailing to Tahiti.
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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart]]", while Bruce was [[StalkerWithACrush spying]] on Claudia, he had observed her dumping the bodies of her human prey into the Missouri River, so when they meet, he informs her that she was being careless.
-->'''Bruce''': You've been sloppy out in Jefferson City.\\
'''Claudia''': How long you been followin'--\\
'''Bruce''': You shouldn't dump bodies in the Missouri. Even if you weigh 'em down with rocks, river's too fast. I find you build a shallow grave, sometimes a prairie wind'll catch, burns faster.
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* In ''Literature/ThePurpleCloud'', the protagonist is on a polar expedition when almost all human and animal life besides himself is killed by the titular FogOfDoom. He returns from the North Pole to the ship ''Boreal'' to find the twelve remaining crew members dead. For many months he keeps their bodies aboard the ship, where the cold preserves them, but once he gets far enough south that they start to rot, he throws them overboard.
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* In ''Series/Forever2014'' this is Henry's fate after he's shot by the captain of the ''Empress of Africa'' because he refused to step aside and let an African man be murdered.

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* In ''Series/Forever2014'' this is Henry's fate after he's shot by the captain of the ''Empress of Africa'' because he refused to step aside and let an African man be murdered. In "Dead Men Tell Long Tales" the fact that this trope ''didn't'' happen to an African captive is Henry's first clue that something major happened on the ship after his own (first) death; it turns out [[spoiler: the key to the shackles and cell door Henry had stolen to free the Africans had fallen from his dead hand within the reach of the African man he'd told he would give it to, and they had successfully risen up against the slavers and taken control of the ship. The African man's body was thus placed in a coffin with great respect, but the coffin was still aboard when the ship sank, to be rediscovered two hundred years later.]]
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* In ''Series/Forever2014'' this is Henry's fate after he's shot by the captain of the ''Empress of Africa'' because he refused to step aside and let an African man be murdered.
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* In Creator/GordonKorman's ''Literature/{{DIVE}}'' trilogy, the Captain requested to be buried at sea.

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* In Creator/GordonKorman's ''Literature/{{DIVE}}'' trilogy, * ''Literature/Dive2003'': After [[spoiler:Caltain Vancover]] drowns and the Captain requested other characters go to be a lot of trouble to recover his body for his family, it turns out that he wanted to buried at sea.sea anyway.
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* ''Film/KonaCoast'': The film is set in Hawaii, and Charlie, an old fisherman, asks for and after he dies gets "a real Hawaiian funeral." This apparently entails the deceased being sent out to sea in a canoe while the mourners throw leis.
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* This is how the military often disposes the dead bodies of several fallen Transformers, both Autobot and Decepticon alike in the live-action ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' films.

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* This is how the military often disposes disposed the dead bodies of several fallen Transformers, both Autobot and Decepticon alike Decepticons in the live-action ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' films.''Film/Transformers2007''.
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* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, Ash and co. tried to do this with Team Rocket when they found them floating on the sea after escaping from a sunken ship. It turned out they were just unconscious, and [[BlackComedy Pikachu was disappointed.]]

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* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'', Ash and co. tried to do this with Team Rocket when they found them floating on the sea after escaping from a sunken ship. It turned out they were just unconscious, and [[BlackComedy Pikachu was disappointed.]]
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* In ''Literature/TheCoralIsland'', [[spoiler:Bloody Bill]] is shot while he and Ralph are fleeing from the pirates' failed raid on the natives. The two make it safely to the ship, but he dies the next day. Ralph ties a cannonball to his feet and drops him overboard.
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* This is how the military often disposes the dead bodies of several fallen Transformers, both Autobot and Decepticon alike in [[Film/{{Transformers}} the live-action ''Transformers'' films]].

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* This is how the military often disposes the dead bodies of several fallen Transformers, both Autobot and Decepticon alike in [[Film/{{Transformers}} the live-action ''Transformers'' films]].''Film/{{Transformers}}'' films.
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* Both Ms. Morgan and Lori receive one of these in ''Film/DeathShip'', though in the latter's case it's not so much a burial as being thrown overboard as the now-possessed Capt. Ashland recites her final vows.
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* ''OnceUponATime'': Hook buries his murdered love this way.

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* ''OnceUponATime'': ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Hook buries his murdered love this way.



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* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': Laena Velaryon is put in a sarcophagus with an elaborate ivory-like recumbent figure and is dropped at sea with the god Triton being invoked, per her family's WoodenShipsAndIronMen traditions.
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* The Folk song "Deep Blue Sea", alternatively titled "Willy and the Deep Blue Sea" recounts the process of burial at sea with lines such as "wrap him up in a silken shroud", and "dig his grave with a silver spade" (A reference to the white caps of the wave action).
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* ''Film/SheCreature'': After the mermaid rips [[spoiler:Bailey]]'s throat out, he is given a brief funeral service and then thrown overboard.
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* In ''Film/ManInTheWilderness'', Zach flashes back to his mother dying of cholera during their voyage to America and being thrown overboard.
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* Done with ''Titanic'' victims who were too damaged or decomposed to identify when they were recovered.

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