History Main / DishonoredDead

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Dee_Dee_Blanchard Dee Dee Blanchard]] abused her daughter Gypsy Rose for years and pretended she was severely disabled in order to get money and sympathy. When Gypsy's boyfriend Nicolas Godejohn murdered Dee Dee, none of her family members would pay for her funeral, and her father and stepmother flushed her ashes down the toilet.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald,]] the most generally agreed-upon suspect of [[WhoShotJFK the assassination]] of U.S. President [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy John F. Kennedy]], was himself shot to death just two days after the assassination. He was buried on the same day as the late President, but the search for willing cemeteries was rather more difficult for him. When one in nearby Fort Worth, Texas agreed, a Lutheran reverend reluctantly agreed to officiate but then failed to appear. Reverend Louis Saunders of the Fort Worth Council of Churches volunteered, saying that "[[KnightInSourArmor someone had to help this family]]". With very few guests, reporters covering the funeral were then asked to serve as pallbearers. His original tombstone -- which gave his full name, birth date, and death date -- was stolen four years after the assassination, and his mother replaced it with a marker simply inscribed "Oswald".

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oise-Aisne_American_Cemetery_Plot_E Plot E of Oise-Aisne American Cemetery]] in France contains the bodies of American servicemen who were executed for rape, murder, or both. They're officially referred to as "[[TropeNamer the dishonored dead]]". Plot E is across the street from the main cemetery, hidden behind hedges and thick forest, and is not included in any official maps or guidebooks, with the only way to access it being the back door of the superintendent's office. No American flags are permitted to fly there, and the numbered graves literally lie with their backs turned to the main cemetery on the other side of the road. The graves themselves have tiny numbered grave markers with no names -- and only a single small granite cross at the top end of the plot -- and without some form of guide, it's supposed to be impossible to determine who is buried where.

* Child rapist and Moors Murderer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors_murders#Ian_Brady Ian Brady]] was so hated for both his crimes and [[{{Sadist}} his continued torment of the mother of one of his victims]] by deliberately not revealing the location of his body that when he finally did the decent thing and [[DraggedOffToHell went to take his place in the Lake Of Fire]] in 2017, no undertaker was remotely interested in accepting his body for disposal; and the local councils of the areas he had been associated with in life blanched at the prospect of his body or ashes finding their final resting place in their borders. Brady's will stated he wanted to have his ashes scattered on the Yorkshire Moors where he and his partner, Myra Hindley, disposed of the bodies of the children whom they sadistically tortured, sexually assaulted, and murdered; an appalling prospect for [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown reasons that should be blindingly obvious]]. In the end, [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41609522 the courts had to rule that it was acceptable to deny Brady a funeral]] and dump his ashes in the sea at night, once they found a crematorium willing to take on the task of getting rid of him. The judge also ruled that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cao6WyF-61s Brady's choice of musical send-off]] [[note]]The 5th Movement of the ''Music/SymphonieFantastique'', by Music/HectorBerlioz[[/note]] would not be played at any point during the disposal of the body. Similarly, when Myra Hindley -- his aforementioned partner and accomplice -- died fifteen years prior in 2002, only a small congregation of eight to ten people (and no one from her family) attended her funeral. The service was very short, with no Hymns being sung or Eulogy given, and reportedly, over twenty local undertakers refused to have anything to do with the disposal of Hindley's remains.

* Musician Ike Turner, the former bandmate and ex-husband of Music/TinaTurner who was later discredited when his history of DomesticAbuse became public, received the following headline from ''The New York Post'' upon his death in December 2007: "[[BlackComedy Ike Turner Beats Tina to Death!]]". Tina would outlive him by nearly 16 years, dying in May 2023.

* 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. Most infamously, this was the intended fate of UsefulNotes/GuyFawkes for his part in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605[[note]]He nearly got as far as the "hanged" part before he jumped off the gallows and broke his neck, though they carried on with the "quartered" part as if he were still alive. It was actually somewhat common for the families of the condemned to slip the executioner a few quid to botch the hanging part and kill him then (it was always a him; female traitors were burned at the stake) so the condemned wouldn't have to go through the agony of being disembowelled and cut to pieces while still alive[[/note]], re-enacted -- with dummies known as "guys", obviously -- in the British Isles every [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night 5th of November.]]

Compare DesecratingTheDead.

* In ''Manga/SnowWhiteWithTheRedHair'' the sentence for those who betray and try to kill members of the royal family is execution and burial in an unmarked grave at an undisclosed location. When [[spoiler:Zen's first "friend" turned out to be part of a plot to kill him to get back at his brother for something the elder prince had done even he didn't know where the traitor was buried and couldn't pay his respects, though Mitsuhide did retrieve an ornament from the young man's bow to give to Zen]].

* ''Fanfic/TheSecret'': After being shown [[spoiler:Frederick]]'s dead body, Emma decides to just leave it in the woods for wild animals. Thranduil is only too happy to oblige, he having learned that [[spoiler:Frederick had forced Emma into marrying him and viciously abused her]].

** [[spoiler: After the truth comes out about Héctor and Ernesto de la Cruz, the memorial dedicated to Ernesto appears to be condemned one year later. A bust of him has a sign around its neck that says "FORGET YOU."]]

* In the ExpandedUniverse of the ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' franchise, Predators who break their rules of honor (such as those who hunt defenseless beings) are hunted down, have their bodies dismembered and desecrated, and have their heads simply disposed of rather than being kept as a trophy like they do with [[WorthyOpponent most of their kills]].

* In ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga The Mountains of Mourning]]'' an elderly woman who murdered her "mutant" (actually just suffering a cleft lip) granddaughter is sentenced to death. But in deference to her age she is [[CruelMercy merely]] stripped of all her property, made a ward of her daughter, and finally denied the customary funeral rite of burning a memorial offering at her grave. This last is what finally hammers the sentence home to her.
* ''Literature/TheLostFleet'': An officer who led a mutiny against Captain Geary's command, attempting to destroy his flagship and succeeding in destroying a heavy cruiser whose captain backed out of the plot, has her body unceremoniously jettisoned while in jump-space. Geary himself is more than a little shocked when he hears that this is a normal part of the penalty for treason, because superstition has it that anyone whose mortal remains cannot be returned to normal space for proper burial is BarredFromTheAfterlife. He doesn't overrule it, though: The apropriately-named Captain Kila tried to do the very same thing to himself and everyone onboard the flagship by remotely sabotaging their jump-drive.

** Played straight with Balderan and his gang of rapists, thieves and murderers in the final book. After all but one of them are killed by an angry mob, their bodies are carried into the mountains and left to the mercies of scavenging animals. [[note]]The survivor is required to make reparations by caring for his mother, who has dementia.[[/note]]
* ''[[Literature/TheBelgariad The Malloreon]]'' mentions that Urgit, King of Cthol Murgos, did this to his father, the AxeCrazy Taur Urgas. There was no love lost between Taur Urgas and Urgit; the former considered the latter a useless weakling and encouraged his siblings to attempt to kill him.[[note]]It's later revealed Urgit was actually sired by a visiting Drasnian diplomat, which is how he escaped being RoyallyScrewedUp like the rest of Taur Urgas's inbred bloodline.[[/note]] So when Taur Urgas died, Urgit slit his throat, hammered a stake through his heart, and buried him ''seventeen'' feet underground - face-down. And then he ''stampeded cattle'' over the gravesite, ensuring that no one would ever know where Taur Urgas was buried.

* ''Series/{{Rome}}''. Gaia makes a DeathbedConfession that she murdered Pullo's wife Eirene to be with him. Pullo, who up to that point had been distraught that Gaia was dying as well, strangles her to death in a rage and then dumps her body in the river. To the Ancient Romans this was a way of damning someone. Without proper funeral rites, their soul would be unable to enter the underworld and they would be stuck in limbo for all eternity.

* In ''Theatre/{{Antigone}}'', King Creon orders that the body of Polyneices (who had attacked the city to claim kingship) should be left unburied as a means of punishing him. Antigone, the sister of Polyneices, does not agree with this, and seeks to bury her brother in defiance of Creon's edict.

* In the United Kingdom, there was once a tradition of burying executed criminals, and people who had committed suicide[[note]]Also a crime at the time; murder was considered the act of taking a life, and the small matter of the perpetrator and victim being the same person was considered a triviality[[/note]], at a crossroads instead of in consecrated ground in a cemetery. The idea being that this would prevent their spirit from finding their way home and haunting the living. This also lead to superstitions that crossroads were cursed or haunted, by the lost spirits of such people.

* 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. Most infamously, this was the intended fate of UsefulNotes/GuyFawkes for his part in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605[[note]]He nearly got as far as the "hanged" part before he jumped off the gallows and broke his neck, though they carried on with the "quartered" part as if he were still alive. It was actually somewhat common for the families of the condemned to slip the executioner a few quid to botch the hanging part and kill him then (it was always a him, women traitors were burned at the stake) so the condemned wouldn't have to go through the agony of being disembowelled and cut to pieces while still alive[[/note]], re-enacted -- with dummies known as "guys", obviously -- in the British Isles every [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night 5th of November.]]

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod Cadaver Synod]] of Pope Formosus by Pope Stephen VI. The late Pope Formosus was exhumed, put on trial for perjury and illegally serving as a bishop while a layman, buried in a graveyard for foreigners. [[HumiliationConga Then exhumed again and, with weights tied around his corpse, thrown into the Tiber]]. This backfired on Stephen, who was eventually deposed, imprisoned and assassinated. The Synod was eventually overturned, the body recovered and returned to its proper place.

* Child rapist and Moors Murderer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors_murders#Ian_Brady Ian Brady]] was so hated for both his crimes and [[{{Sadist}} his continued torment of the mother of one of his victims]] by deliberately not revealing the location of his body that when he finally did the decent thing and [[DraggedOffToHell went to take his place in the Lake Of Fire]] in 2017, no undertaker was remotely interested in accepting his body for disposal; and the local councils of the areas he had been associated with in life blanched at the prospect of his body or ashes finding their final resting place in their borders. Brady's will stated he wanted to have his ashes scattered on the Yorkshire Moors where he and his partner, Myra Hindley, disposed of the bodies of the children whom they sadistically tortured, sexually assaulted and murdered; an appalling prospect for [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown reasons that should be blindingly obvious]]. In the end, [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41609522 the courts had to rule that it was acceptable to deny Brady a funeral]] and dump his ashes in the sea at night, once they found a crematorium willing to take on the task of getting rid of him. The judge also ruled that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cao6WyF-61s Brady's choice of musical send-off]] [[note]]The 5th Movement of the ''Music/SymphonieFantastique'', by Music/HectorBerlioz[[/note]] would not be played at any point during the disposal of the body. Similarly, when Myra Hindley -- his aforementioned partner and accomplice -- died fifteen years prior in 2002, only a small congregation of eight to ten people (and no one from her family) attended her funeral. The service was very short, with no Hymns being sung or Eulogy given, and reportedly, over twenty local undertakers refused to have anything to do with the disposal of Hindley's remains.

* When Creator/JimmySavile died in 2011, he, as one of the most beloved figures in British television at the time, received the kind of funeral that one might expect for a member of the Royal Family or a prime minister; complete with a burial in a prominent scenic spot renamed ("Savile's View") for him. However, nearly a year later, allegations that he had sexually abused minors, the disabled, and the dead throughout his five-decade career came to light. Everything that had been named in his honor was quickly taken down. His massive headstone, which had the very uncomfortable epitaph [[HarsherInHindsight "It Was Good While It Lasted"]], was removed after only three weeks and sent to a landfill for destruction, leaving him in an unmarked grave.
* Serial killer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West Fred West]] committed suicide whilst on remand alongside his wife Rosemary, for a string of brutal sexually-motivated torture-murders of at least twelve young women and girls, including [[OffingTheOffspring some of their own children]]. None of his family -- from whom he was already estranged before his and his wife's horrific deeds came to light -- turned up at the funeral. While it did take place, West's funeral lasted five minutes with no Hymns being sung, and its minister gave him no Eulogy. Instead, he simply read from [[Literature/BookOfPsalms the 23rd Psalm]] and stated that West's life should serve as a cautionary tale; ending with the solemn warning to the few present to "Remember everyone else who has also suffered because of these tragic events".
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald,]] the most generally agreed-upon suspect of [[WhoShotJFK the assassination]] of U.S. President [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy John F. Kennedy]], was himself shot to death just two days after the assassination. He was buried on the same day as the late President, but the search for willing cemeteries was rather more difficult for him. When one in nearby Fort Worth, Texas agreed, a Lutheran reverend reluctantly agreed to officiate; but then failed to appear. Reverend Louis Saunders of the Fort Worth Council of Churches volunteered, saying that "[[KnightInSourArmor someone had to help this family]]". With very few guests, reporters covering the funeral were then asked to serve as pallbearers. His original tombstone -- which gave his full name, birth date, and death date -- was stolen four years after the assassination, and his mother replaced it with a marker simply inscribed "Oswald".
* Musician Ike Turner, the former bandmate and ex-husband of Music/TinaTurner who was later discredited when his history of DomesticAbuse became public, received the following headline from ''The New York Post'' upon his death in December 2007: "[[BlackComedy Ike Turner Beats Tina to Death!]]". Tina would outlive him by nearly 16 years.

* Child rapist and Moors Murderer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors_murders#Ian_Brady Ian Brady]] was so hated for both his crimes and [[{{Sadist}} his continued torment of the mother of one of his victims]] by deliberately not revealing the location of his body that when he finally did the decent thing and [[DraggedOffToHell went to take his place in the Lake Of Fire]] in 2017, no undertaker was remotely interested in accepting his body for disposal; and the local councils of the areas he had been associated with in life blanched at the prospect of his body or ashes finding their final resting place in their borders. Brady's will stated he wanted to have his ashes scattered on the Yorkshire Moors where he and his partner, Myra Hindley, disposed of the bodies of the children whom they sadistically tortured, sexually assaulted and murdered; an appalling prospect for [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown reasons that should be blindingly obvious]]. In the end, [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41609522 the courts had to rule that it was acceptable to deny Brady a funeral]] and dump his ashes in the sea at night, once they found a crematorium willing to take on the task of getting rid of him. The judge also ruled that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cao6WyF-61s Brady's choice of musical send-off]] [[note]]The 5th Movement of the ''Music/SymphonieFantastique'', by Music/HectorBerlioz[[/note]] would not be played at any point during the disposal of the body.

** If a dead Clan cat has committed a grave crime, that cat may be denied the traditional funeral rites of sharing tongues[[note]]the deceased's loved ones grooming them a final time before burial[[/note]] and the cat’s 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.
** Mapleshade killed Ravenwing in revenge for him getting her and her kits kicked out of [=ThunderClan=]. After his Clan buried him, she dug him up and left his corpse to be eaten by hawks.
** After taking over [=RiverClan=]'s territory, Darktail and his "Kin" cruelly rub salt in their enemies' wounds by forcing them to leave the bodies of their slain Clanmates (which he callously dismisses as "carrion") to rot in the open, instead of allowing them to be taken for burial.

** If a dead Clan cat has committed a grave crime, that cat may be denied the traditional funeral rites of sharing tongues[[note]]the deceased cat's loved ones grooming the cat a final time before burial[[/note]] and the cat’s 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.

** After taking over [=RiverClan=]'s territory, Darktail and his "Kin" cruelly rub salt in their enemies' wound by forcing them to leave the bodies of their slain Clanmates (which he callously dismisses as "carrion") to rot in the open, instead of allowing them to be taken for burial.

* In ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga The Mountains of Mourning]]'' an elderly woman who murdered her "mutant" (actually just suffering a harelip) granddaughter is sentenced to death. But in deference to her age she is [[CruelMercy merely]] stripped of all her property, made a ward of her daughter, and finally denied the customary funeral rite of burning a memorial offering at her grave. This last is what finally hammers the sentence home to her.

** This happens to a few kings of Judah in ''Literature/BookOfChronicles''. 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 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. Most infamously, this was the intended fate of UsefulNotes/GuyFawkes for his part in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605[[note]]He nearly got as far as the "hanged" part before he jumped off the gallows and broke his neck, though they carried on with the "quartered" part as if he were still alive. It was actually somewhat common for the families of the condemned to slip the executioner a few quid to botch the hanging part and kill him then (it was always a him, women traitors were burned at the stake) so the condemned wouldn't have to go through the agony of being disemboweled and cut to pieces while still alive[[/note]], re-enacted (with dummies known as "guys", obviously) in the British isles every 5th of November.

* Child rapist and Moors Murderer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors_murders#Ian_Brady Ian Brady]] was so hated for both his crimes and [[{{Sadist}} his continued torment of the mother of one of his victims]] by deliberately not revealing the location of his body that when he finally did the decent thing and [[DraggedOffToHell went to take his place in the Lake Of Fire]] in 2017, no undertaker was remotely interested in accepting his body for disposal; and the local councils of the areas he had been associated with in life blanched at the prospect of his body or ashes finding their final resting place in their borders. Brady's will stated he wanted to have his ashes scattered on the Yorkshire Moors where he disposed of the bodies of his victims, an appalling prospect for [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown reasons that should be blindingly obvious]]. In the end, [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41609522 the courts had to rule that it was acceptable to deny Brady a funeral]] and dump his ashes in the sea at night, once they found a crematorium willing to take on the task of getting rid of him. The judge even ruled that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cao6WyF-61s Brady's choice of musical send-off]] [[note]]The 5th Movement of the ''Music/SymphonieFantastique'', by Music/HectorBerlioz[[/note]] would not be played at any point during the disposal of the body.

* Musician Ike Turner, the former bandmate and ex-husband of Music/TinaTurner who was later discredited when his history of spousal abuse became public, received the following headline from ''The New York Post'' upon his death in December 2007: "[[BlackComedy Ike Turner Beats Tina to Death!]]" Tina would outlive him by nearly 16 years.

* Child rapist and Moors Murderer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors_murders#Ian_Brady Ian Brady]] was so hated for both his crimes and [[{{Sadist}} his continued torment of the mother of one of his victims]] by deliberately not revealing the location of his body that when he finally did the decent thing and [[DraggedOffToHell went to take his place in the Lake Of Fire]], no undertaker was remotely interested in accepting his body for disposal; and the local councils of the areas he had been associated with in life blanched at the prospect of his body or ashes finding their final resting place in their borders. Brady's will stated he wanted to have his ashes scattered on the Yorkshire Moors where he disposed of the bodies of his victims, an appalling prospect for [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown reasons that should be blindingly obvious]]. In the end, [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41609522 the courts had to rule that it was acceptable to deny Brady a funeral]] and dump his ashes in the sea at night, once they found a crematorium willing to take on the task of getting rid of him. The judge even ruled that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cao6WyF-61s Brady's choice of musical send-off]] [[note]]The 5th Movement of the ''Music/SymphonieFantastique'', by Music/HectorBerlioz[[/note]] would not be played at any point during the disposal of the body.

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod Cadaver Synod]] of Pope Formosus by Pope Stephen VI. The late Pope Formosus was exhumed, put on trial for perjury and illegally serving as a bishop while a layman, buried in a graveyard for foreigners. [[HumiliationConga Then exhumed again and, with weights tied around his corpse, threw it into the Tiber]]. This backfired on Stephen, who was eventually deposed, imprisoned and assassinated. The Synod was eventually overturned, the body recovered and returned to its proper place.

* When Ike Turner, the former bandmate and ex-husband of Music/TinaTurner who was later discredited when his history of spousal abuse became public, received the following headline from ''The New York Post'' upon his death in 2007: "[[BlackComedy Ike Turner Beats Tina to Death!]]" Tina would outlive him by nearly 16 years.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald,]] the [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement most generally agreed-upon suspect]] of [[WhoShotJFK the assassination]] of U.S. President [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy John F. Kennedy]], was himself shot to death just two days after the assassination. He was buried on the same day as the late President, but the search for willing cemeteries was rather more difficult for him. When one in nearby Fort Worth, Texas agreed, a Lutheran reverend reluctantly agreed to officiate; but then failed to appear. Reverend Louis Saunders of the Fort Worth Council of Churches volunteered, saying that "[[KnightInSourArmor someone had to help this family]]". With very few guests, reporters covering the funeral were then asked to serve as pallbearers. His original tombstone -- which gave his full name, birth date, and death date -- was stolen four years after the assassination, and his mother replaced it with a marker simply inscribed "Oswald".

* Lee Harvey Oswald, the [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement most generally agreed-upon]] suspect of [[WhoShotJFK the assassination]] of U.S. President [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy John F. Kennedy]], was himself shot to death just two days after the assassination. He was buried on the same day as the late President, but the search for willing cemeteries was rather more difficult for him. When one in nearby Fort Worth, Texas agreed, a Lutheran reverend reluctantly agreed to officiate; but then failed to appear. Reverend Louis Saunders of the Fort Worth Council of Churches volunteered, saying that "[[KnightInSourArmor someone had to help this family]]". With very few guests, reporters covering the funeral were then asked to serve as pallbearers. His original tombstone -- which gave his full name, birth date, and death date -- was stolen four years after the assassination, and his mother replaced it with a marker simply inscribed "Oswald".

* Lee Harvey Oswald, the [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement lik]][[ConspiracyTheory ely]] [[WhoShotJFK assassin]] of U.S. President [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy John F. Kennedy]], was himself shot to death just two days after the assassination. He was buried on the same day as the late President, but the search for willing cemeteries was rather more difficult for him. When one in nearby Fort Worth, Texas agreed, a Lutheran reverend reluctantly agreed to officiate but then failed to appear. Reverend Louis Saunders of the Fort Worth Council of Churches volunteered, saying that "[[KnightInSourArmor someone had to help this family]]". With very few guests, reporters covering the funeral were then asked to serve as pallbearers. His original tombstone which gave his full name, birth date, and death date, was then stolen four years after the assassination, and his mother replaced it with a marker simply inscribed "Oswald".

* Lee Harvey Oswald, the [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement lik]][[ConspiracyTheory ely]] [[WhoShotJFK assassin]] of U.S. President [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy John F. Kennedy]], was himself shot to death just two days after the assassination. He was buried on the same day as the late President, but the search for willing cemeteries was rather more difficult for him. When one in nearby Fort Worth, Texas agreed, a Lutheran reverend reluctantly agreed to officiate but then failed to appear. Reverend Louis Saunders of the Fort Worth Council of Churches volunteered, saying that "[[SomeoneHasToDoIt someone had to help this family]]". With very few guests, reporters covering the funeral were then asked to serve as pallbearers. His original tombstone which gave his full name, birth date, and death date, was then stolen four years after the assassination, and his mother replaced it with a marker simply inscribed "Oswald".

* Serial killer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West Fred West]] committed suicide whilst on remand alongside his wife Rosemary, for a string of brutal sexually-motivated torture-murders of at least twelve young women and girls, including [[OffingTheOffspring some of their own children]]. None of his family -- from whom he was already estranged before his and his wife's horrific deeds came to light -- turned up at the funeral. While said funeral did take place, it lasted five minutes with no Hymns being sung, and its minister gave him no Eulogy. Instead, he simply read from [[Literature/BookOfPsalms the 23rd Psalm]] and stated that West's life should serve as a cautionary tale; ending with the solemn warning to those present to ''"Also remember everyone else who has also suffered because of these tragic events"''.

* Plot E of Oise-Aisne American Cemetery in France contains the bodies of American servicemen who were executed for rape, murder, or both. They're officially referred to as "the [[TropeNamer dishonored dead]]". Plot E is across the street from the main cemetery, hidden behind hedges and thick forest, and is not included in any official maps or guidebooks, with the only way to access it being the back door of the superintendent's office. No American flags are permitted to fly there. The graves themselves have tiny numbered grave markers with no names and it's supposed to be impossible to determine who is buried where.

* Serial killer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West Fred West]] committed suicide whilst on remand alongside his wife Rosemary, for a string of brutal sexually-motivated torture-murders of at least twelve young women and girls, including [[OffingTheOffspring some of their own children]]. None of his family -- from whom he was already estranged before his and his wife's horrific deeds came to light -- turned up at the funeral. While said funeral did take place, it lasted five minutes with no Hymns being sung, and the minister for it didn't give him a proper eulogy; instead simply reading from [[Literature/BookOfPsalms the 23rd Psalm]] and stating that West's life should serve as a cautionary tale, ending with the solemn warning to those present to ''"Also remember everyone else who has also suffered because of these tragic events"''.

* Child rapist and Moors Murderer Ian Brady was so hated for both his crimes and [[{{Sadist}} his continued torment of the mother of one of his victims]] by deliberately not revealing the location of his body that when he finally did the decent thing and [[DraggedOffToHell went to take his place in the Lake Of Fire]], no undertaker was remotely interested in accepting his body for disposal; and the local councils of the areas he had been associated with in life blanched at the prospect of his body or ashes finding their final resting place in their borders. Brady's will stated he wanted to have his ashes scattered on the Yorkshire Moors where he disposed of the bodies of his victims, an appalling prospect for [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown reasons that should be blindingly obvious]]. In the end, [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41609522 the courts had to rule that it was acceptable to deny Brady a funeral and dump his ashes in the sea]], once they found a crematorium willing to take on the task of getting rid of him. The judge even ruled that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cao6WyF-61s Brady's choice of musical send-off]] [[note]]The 5th Movement of the ''Music/SymphonieFantastique'', by Music/HectorBerlioz[[/note]] would not be played at any point during the disposal of the body.

* Child rapist and Moors Murderer Ian Brady was so hated for both his crimes and [[{{Sadist}} his continued torment of the mother of one of his victims by deliberately not revealing the location of his body]] that when he finally did the decent thing and went to take his place in the Lake Of Fire, no undertaker was remotely interested in accepting his body for disposal; and the local councils of the areas he had been associated with in life blanched at the prospect of his body or ashes finding their final resting place in their borders. Brady's will stated he wanted to have his ashes scattered on the moors where he disposed of the bodies of his victims, an appalling prospect for [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown reasons that should be blindingly obvious]]. In the end, [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41609522 the courts had to rule that it was acceptable to deny him a funeral and dump his ashes in the sea]], once they found a crematorium willing to take on the task of getting rid of him. The judge even ruled that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cao6WyF-61s Brady's choice of musical send-off]], the 5th Movement of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, should not be played at any point during the disposal of the body.

* 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 can imagine no holier place than that in which he lies, among his brave and devoted followers, nor wish for him better company]]." Shaw and his fallen soldiers were eventually exhumed and re-buried together in individual graves at nearby Beaufort National Cemetery once the war ended and the Americans could get to their grave.