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* There's a hideous glurge that periodically makes the rounds in email: it's a chronicle of child abuse and murder, told from the victim's point of view, and ends with the lines "My name is Sarah/And I am but three/And tonight my daddy/Murdered me." Multiple people have written to [http://www.snopes.com snopes] ''asking whether this is a true story''. (Their [http://www.snopes.com/glurge/blueribbon.asp response]: "As unlikely as it might be that a three-year-old could possess the language skills necessary to compose such a piece, it's even more unlikely that anyone could describe her own murder in the first person.")
** Note that the question is not quite so daft as it might seem; though a true murder victim could not write of it, there are many cases of people describing highly traumatic events in such terms.
* In ''[[Conquering the Horizon]]'' the protagonist, Evelyn, is a [[Hive Mind]]. Whenever one of her bodies die, she holds a funeral for it (if circumstances permit). As of this writing, unless you count her non-sapient companion, ''Evelyn is [[Lonely Funeral|the only person]]'' (or people depending on you look at it, her individual bodies do have semi-individual lines of thought) to attend one of her 'funerals'
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