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* The nice instrumental work for the funeral in ''[[Seirei no Moribito]]'' is titled ''Drizzle''
* Episode 25 of ''[[Death Note]]'' has L and Light talking for a bit on the rooftop of the investigation headquarters. It's raining particularly hard outside, leading to the infamous [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|foot-washing scene]] when they go back inside. Sometime later, ''[[Ominous Latin Chanting]]'' rears its head AGAIN as Rem kills both L and Watari. Cue an uncomfortable silence shortly filled by church bells.
* In ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', when Rosette takes a [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]] in [[Token Mini-Moe|Azmaria]]'s head, she's shown at a graveyard in the rain under a battered
* It the anime ''[[One Piece]]'', during Zoro's flashback, it rains at Kuina's funeral.
* In the ''[[SHUFFLE!]]'' anime it rains during the funeral for Kaede's mother.
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* During the state funeral of Néstor Kirchner, former president of Argentina and husband to current president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, thousands of people patiently waited under the rain in the Plaza de Mayo to pay their last respects.
* Keeping with the theme of former Argentine presidents, it also rained during Raúl Alfonsín's funeral. Not only that, but on the last day of the funeral, at dawn, there was a great rainbow in Buenos Aires. Lightened the mood quite a bit.
* Subverted with Pope John Paul`s
* It rained during the funeral of Archbishop Makarios, the first president of Cyprus - a highly unusual event for the island in August. Characteristically, the two ethnic groups on Cyprus had opposite views of this - the Greeks called the rain the tears of heaven, while the Turks claimed that rain attends the burial of a sinner to wash away his sins.
* Former Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston caught a cold while the very rainy funeral of his late opponent, General William T. Sherman, possibly beause he refused to put on his hat: "If I were in his place and he were standing here in mine, he would not put on his hat." The cold developed into pneumonia, causing Johnston's own death a month later.
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