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* ''Literature/{{Siren}}'': After [[spoiler:Colin]] drowns in ''Dark Water'', Vanessa drapes her jacket over his eyes.

* ''Film/AllThatJazz'' ends with the main character being zipped up.

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Needless to say, this is a '''DeathTrope''', so spoilers ahead!

* When Sam dies before being recruited into the Comicbook/DeathVigil, the thing that most got to him was the noise of his body bag being zipped up.

* In ''Film/MrRicco'', paramedics pull a blanket over [[spoiler:Katherine]]'s face after she is shot.

* ''Cosmic Sin'' (2021). Commander Bleck sees a fellow soldier about to be zipped up and stops it. He removes a [[TragicKeepsake crucifix from around the dead man's neck]] and [[DueToTheDead says a prayer for him]], before leaving him to be zipped up.

** In "Maximum Homerdrive", after Red Barclay dies from beef poisoning during a steak eating contest with Homer, the coroners zip up the body bag on Red. For extra [[BlackComedy Black Comedy]] points the bag even has printed on it: "I died at the Slaughterhouse!" (the name of the restaurant) They also give an extra one to Marge just in case, because Homer doesn't look so good either.
** In the "Treehouse of Horror XI" story "G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad", Homer dies from eating a piece of broccoli, with Dr. Hibbert and medical attendants arriving at the Simpson home.
--->'''Medical Attendant:''' Sure is easy when they're stiff like this... ''(sees Bart and Lisa are upset)'' [[VerbalBackspace and very sad]].

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* Subverted in ''Film/Leviathan1989''. After two people are [[NotQuiteDead apparently killed]] by the [[BodyHorror turn-you-into-a-horrible-monster serum]], Doc and Beck put the corpses into bodybags to hide this from the crew and order them thrown out the airlock, [[PoorCommunicationKills telling everyone else that they died of infection]]. So when the bodybags start twitching, the crew naturally want to open them thinking someone is still alive...
* In ''Film/TheOddWayHome'', Maya throws a sheet over Duncan's grandma as she sits on the couch, where she died while watching TV.
* In ''Film/MrRicco'', paramedics pull a blanket over [[spoiler:Katherine]]'s face after she is shot.

* ''Film/FightingMad1976'': After [[spoiler:Jeff Hunter]] is killed by an explosion, Tom pulls a burlap bag over his face.
* In ''Film/MovingViolation'', a deputy pulls a sheet over [[spoiler:Warren]]'s face after he's gunned down.
* ''Cosmic Sin'' (2021). Commander Bleck sees a fellow soldier about to be zipped up and stops it. He removes a [[TragicKeepsake crucifix from around the dead man's neck]] and [[DueToTheDead says a prayer for him]], before leaving him to be zipped up.

* Seen plenty of times on ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent''. One particularly poignant moment from "Frame" has Goren learning of the body of a junkie who had fallen out of a window. To his horror and heartbreak, he discovers that it's [[spoiler: his older brother. He]] is then being seen zipped up in bodybag as Goren is interviewed by police.

-->'''Medical Attendant:''' Sure is easy when they're stiff like this... ''[sees Bart and Lisa are upset]'' [[VerbalBackspace and very sad]].

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Ends up happening to [[spoiler:Mike Franks. Showing him die was bad enough.]]
* One of the ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'' TV films featured a scene similar to the ''Film/MasterAndCommander'' example above (produced several years earlier), with a character snarking about another sailor taking such care that you'd think he was sending a gift home to his wife. The character doing the careful stitching insisted that he just wanted to [[DueToTheDead make sure it was done right.]]
* ''Series/TheWire'', we see [[spoiler:Omar]]'s body bag being zipped up in the morgue at the end of an episode. Furthermore, in this scene, it's shown that there was a mistake with the ID tags, which the ME has to correct, which further emphasize the point: he's no longer a character, just a statistic.
* This is seen ''a lot'' in ''Series/{{Oz}}'', especially during season four.

* In the ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode "Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa," this kind of shot is used when Det. Terry Chasen's body is being wheeled out after he drinks a bottle of port that has been poisoned with strychnine.
* In the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "The One After the Superbowl, Part 2", Joey becomes an extra on a stretcher in ''Film/{{Outbreak}} 2: The Virus Takes Manhattan''. His BadBadActing keeps ruining Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme's line "Can't you see what's going on here? This man is dying!", until the line is changed to "Can't you see what's going on here? This man is dead!" and zipping Joey up.

* ''Series/{{Westworld}}'': Dr Ford is introduced talking with one of his earlier model androids. He tells the android to shut itself down, so it lies on a shelf and zips up its own bodybag.
* In the ''Series/MidnightCaller'' episode "The Language Barrier," a Chinese man is killed in a hate crime. A cop pulls a sheet over his head before his body is carried away.
* Done in many ''Series/MiamiVice'' episodes.

* PlayedForLaughs in the ''Series/BroadCity'' episode "2016," where someone drops dead while [[RightOnQueue waiting in line at the DMV]].
* Seen plenty of times on ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent''. One particularly poignant moment from "Frame" has Goren learning of the body of a junkie who had fallen out of a window. To his horror and heartbreak, he discovers that it's [[spoiler: his older brother. He]] is then being seen zipped up in bodybag as Goren is interviewed by police.

* A live version in ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'' when Mama has to transported in a backpack-type bodybag that protects her from Timefall. She asks the protagonist to ZipMeUp as she suffers from agrophobia from having been inside her bunker for years.

* A variation in ''DeathStranding'' when Mama has to transported in a backpack-type bodybag that protects her from Timefall. She asks the protagonist to ZipMeUp as she suffers from agrophobia from having been inside her bunker for years.