History Main / DishonoredDead

* In an episode of "[[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife Rocko's Modern Life]]", "The Lounge Singer", Filbert is so afraid of singing badly that he [[ImagineSpot imagines]] everyone hating him for his failure as a singer, to the point where his favorite celebrity desecrates his grave.

* In an episode of "Rocko's Modern Life", "The Lounge Singer", Filbert is so afraid of singing badly that he [[ImagineSpot imagines]] everyone hating him for his failure as a singer, to the point where his favorite celebrity desecrates his grave.

* Oliver Cromwell, who took control of the British Isles (as the English Commonwealth) after deposing and executing King Charles I, died in 1658. The next year, the monarchy was restored. The new monarch, King Charles II (Charles I's son), had Cromwell and two other high-ranking deceased Commonwealth officials exhumed. The corpses were subjected to posthumous execution, where they were hanged for a full day, then beheaded. Their severed heads were put on display over Westminster Hall for over 20 years. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell%27s_head Cromwell's head]] would be in several modes of display for centuries until it was finally re-buried in 1960.

* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', if a dead Clan cat has committed a grave crime, they may be denied the traditional funeral rites of sharing tongues[[note]]the deceased cat's loved ones grooming them a final time before burial[[/note]] and their Clanmates sitting the night vigil by the body. When Clawface, a [=ShadowClan=] warrior turned rogue who murdered Spottedleaf and kidnapped a litter of [=ThunderClan=] kits, is killed on a raid on the [=ThunderClan=] camp, his body is buried without any ceremony as punishment for his crimes.

* Right up through WorldWarOne, "prone burials" were used to shame deceased who weren't liked, or had done something wrong.

* In ''Film/TheGravedancers'', Harris, Sid and Kira discover that the graves that they desecrated where in a section of the cemetery reserved for town did not want buried with the rest of the dead: violent criminals, the mentally ill, etc. Kira is especially disturbed to discover that the tombstone of Walter Langer--the grave she danced upon--has the epitaph "GOOD RIDDANCE".

* When the first Black U.S. Army regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, was defeated in the Second Battle of Fort Wagner, 29 dead Black soldiers were dumped in a mass grave by the Confederates, and their White commander, Col. Robert Gould Shaw, was dumped in with them. When asked for the return of Shaw's body, Confederate Brigadier General Johnson Hagood said, "We buried him with his n***s." Shaw's father responded in a letter, "[[InsultBackfire We hold that a soldier's most appropriate burial-place is on the field where he has fallen]]." Shaw and his fallen soldiers were exhumed and re-buried together in individual graves at nearby Beaufort National Cemetery once the war ended.

* Right up through WorldWarOne, "prone burials" were used as a final TakeThat against someone who wasn't liked, or had done something wrong. Although it was done to men and children, it was ''most often'' done to women. Sometimes for ''actual'' wrongdoing, other times for their reputation, and sometimes for the ''[[SarcasmMode heinous]]'' crime of [[MenAreStrongWomenArePretty aging naturally and dying of old age]] instead of [[VictorianNovelDisease in the prime of life and physical beauty]].

** Played straight with Balderan and his gang of rapists and murderers in the final book. After all but one of them are killed by an angry mob, their bodies are left to the mercies of scavenging animals. [[note]]The survivor is required to make restitution by caring for his mother, who has dementia.[[/note]]

** Defied in the case of the despotic headwoman Attaroa. After she is killed by Wolf, one of the men who suffered under her rule says her body should be thrown to the scavengers. But Ayla says Attaroa should be "buried with the dignity she was denied in life" in order to break the cycle of revenge.
** Played straight with Balderan and his gang of rapists and murderers in the final book. After all but one of them are killed by an angry mob, their bodies are left to the mercies of scavenging animals. [[note]]The survivor is allowed to live, provided he makes restitution by caring for his mother, who has dementia.[[/note]]

** Played straight with Balderan and his gang of rapists and murderers in the final book. After all but one of them are killed by a angry mob, their bodies are left to the mercies of scavenging animals. [[note]]The survivor is allowed to live, provided he makes restitution by caring for his mother, who has dementia.[[/note]]

** Played straight with Balderan and his gang of rapists and murderers in the final book. After all but one of them are killed by a angry mob, their bodies are left to the mercies of scavenging animals. [[note]]The survivor is allowed to make restitution by caring for his mother, who has dementia.[[/note]]

** Played straight with Balderan and his gang of rapists and murderers in the final book. After all but one of them are killed by a angry mob, their bodies are left to the mercies of scavenging animals.

** For the king of Babylon in [[Literature/BookOfIsaiah 14:19-20]]:

All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory,
each one in his own tomb;
but you are cast out of your grave
like an abominable branch
and clothed with those who are slain,
thrust through with a sword,
who go down to the stones of the pit
as a corpse trodden underfoot.
You shall not be joined with them in burial
because you have destroyed your land

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* In the roleplay ''Roleplay/TamrielicAdventures'', after Hodor and his group of Nords attack Kelessa, Rosa, and the shipwreck survivors, Hodor's dead body is beheaded by Kelessa, and they do not bury him or his allies.

* This happens to a few kings of Judah in [[Literature/TheBible The Book of Chronicles]]. Most kings were buried in rock tombs near their ancestors. Jehoram is not buried with the other kings due to being rather nasty, and Azariah/Uzziah is buried in a field due to being a leper.

As a punishment that transcends even death itself, condemning someone's body to such a fate is usually reserved for the worst of the worst among a society, but the reasoning behind it varies. It could simply be a form of LastDisrespects, where the deceased's crimes are [[MoralEventHorizon just so heinous]] that they're deemed unworthy of the fond farewell and remembrance of a traditional funeral. Or worse yet, [[UnPerson unworthy of any remembrance at all]]. If a culture considers its traditional rites important to a soul's safe passage to the beyond, then they can withhold the rites to ensure the wicked soul's damnation, or leave them BarredFromTheAfterlife entirely (which would be blasphemous itself, trying to rob God(s) out of the choice). Finally, if they are GenreSavvy enough to know [[ThePunishment how the latter can backfire]], they can opt for the other extreme and render them DeaderThanDead, disposing of the body in a way that ensures they ''won't'' return and continue to torment the living.

* This happens to a few kings of Judah in [[TheBible The Book of Chronicles]]. Most kings were buried in rock tombs near their ancestors. Jehoram is not buried with the other kings due to being rather nasty, and Azariah/Uzziah is buried in a field due to being a leper.

* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', if a dead Clan cat has committed a grave crime, they may be denied the traditional funeral rites of sharing tongues[[note]]the deceased cat's loved ones grooming them a final time before burial[[/note]] and their Clanmates sitting the night vigil by the body. When Clawface, a [=ShadowClan=] warrior turned rogue, is killed on a raid on the [=ThunderClan=] camp, his body is buried without any ceremony, as punishment for his crimes.

* In the United Kingdom, there was once a tradition of burying executed criminals and people who had committed suicide at a crossroads instead of in consecrated ground in a cemetery.
* In medieval England, criminals were sometimes hung, drawn and quartered, after which their body parts [[DeadGuyOnDisplay would be displayed]] as a deterrent to others, rather than receiving a proper burial.