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* ''The Mary Gloster'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]] is a poem entirely consisting of the narrator's instructions to his son as to how he is to be buried (at sea, and it's going to be a BIG chore).
* Another poetic example: ''The Cremation of Sam McGee''. Except he sort of gets better.
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'', Lazarus Long tries to give Libby the cremation he requested, by letting him burn up de-orbiting into Earth. Problem is, he dies on the other side of the galaxy, but thankfully corpses keep well in space. Long sets up the body in an orbit around the planet where Libby died, knowing he can always come back later when it's possible to get to Earth and retrieve the body. Oddly enough someone steals it before he can come back, and even odder it turns out to be Lazarus himself. ([[Time Travel]] is fun like that). However, in ''[[Number of the Beast]]'' we discover that he steals Libby's corpse a ''second'' time so they can recapture his DNA and memories and ''clone'' him, this time [[Opposite SexGender Clone|as a woman]].
* In ''[[Lonesome Dove]]'' Woodrow Call brings Gus MacCrae's body across the country so he can be buried in his favourite orchard.
* In Polidori's ''[[The Vampyre]]'', Lord Ruthven invokes this trope to ensure his corpse will be exposed to moonlight, which he knows [[Our Vampires Are Different|will revive him in undeath]].
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Singer Gram Parsons requested he be cremated at the Joshua Tree National Monument. His manager stole his corpse from the morgue to do so.
* And then there's James Doohan, Scotty from ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'', who requested his ashes be sent into space. It took them 2 years to take his remains up even on a temporary trip. On the rocket that was going to bring his ashes (with several others) into space, the launch was halted at T-0.5 seconds because the rockets were malfunctioning. It launched properly a few days later.
** Somehow, a ''malfunctioning'' spacecraft seems more appropriate for the man behind Scotty than one where everything goes smoothly.
* Other people's ashes have been taken into space as well, most notably Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and astronaut Gordon Cooper.
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