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[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Whenever a movie shows the folks at home while there is a war going on, you are very likely to see this: A pair of military personnel, in dress uniform, approaching the home of the soldier's family. [[Genre Savvy|The family will almost always know]] [[He Didn't Make It|what this means.]]

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit|Ikigami the Ultimate Limit]]'' inverts the trope. People are given notification that they ''will'' die in the next 24 hours.

 

== [[Fan Works]] ==

* In the third Light Novel of ''[[Saga of Tanya the Evil]]'', Mary's grandma thinks about how absent minded she was for failing to realizing that people dressed in black were on death notification duty and mentally kicked herself for letting her daughter answer the door instead of answering it herself and hiding the death of her son in law.

 

* ''[[Space: Above and Beyond]]'': After the death of {{spoiler|Nathan West's younger brother Neil}}, Nathan is shocked to discover that the notification letter was sent to ''the wrong address''. He ends up writing a letter of his own home to inform {{spoiler|his mother}} himself. It is implied that rather than being hand-delivered, the notices are sent in the mail in "ugly yellow envelopes".

** This is seen again in the episode ''Never No More'': After someone's fighter gets locked with an enemy [[Ace Custom]] and is sent spiraling into a planet, it is stated in the debriefing that the enemy ace survived. When asked about the friendly pilot, the CO drops a yellow envelope on the table.

* In ''[[Valkyria Chronicles III]]'' [[Expansion Pack|E2]], Not only Kurt must bring the news<ref>The task can't be delegated to anyone else, as his squad is a penal legion that's not officially recorded in the military</ref> of {{spoiler|Gusurg's}} death to the dead guy's big sister, but he must also explain that {{spoiler|Gusurg died as a treator to Gallia, having chosen to defect to the invading Empire's Calamity Raven for the sake of a chance for his ostracized people to found their own country. And that Kurt killed Gusurg by his own hands. The big sister face the news solemnly, stating that Gusurg died for what he believed.}} This is the last straw for Kurt's psyche, and Riela and Imca must talk him to his senses. [[Darker and Edgier|Yeah, it's that kind of story.]]

* In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', Shepard can deliver a death notification to an asari on the Citadel whose krogan husband died fighting the Reapers. {{spoiler|Only if you helped the two of them get together in the previous game, though.}} It's fairly [[Tear Jerker|sad.]]

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

 

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