Lonely Funeral: Difference between revisions

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', {{spoiler|Suzaku}}'s grave is visited only by the cat Arthur. As some blogger put it, "if the cat is the only person at your grave, you must have really sucked in life." Of course, that scene happened long after the actual funeral and he is [[Not Quite Dead]] but still.

== Literature ==

* {{spoiler|Gatsby's funeral}} from ''[[The Great Gatsby]]''. Used to show how fair-weather all of his friends were. Except {{spoiler|Nick, and the owl-eyed man from the library.}}

* Jim Butcher's'' [[Dresden Files]]'': In ''Turn Coat'', {{spoiler|Morgan}} had no mourners at his funeral, owing to [[Malicious Slander|the story they put out]], but they engaged in [[To Absent Friends]].

* Mercedes Lackey's ''Alta'': {{spoiler|Prince Toreth}}. Given an insultingly extravagant state funeral that not even his own parents attended, only his brother and {{spoiler|the other jousters of his wing}}

 

== New Media ==

 

== Theatre ==

** Conversely, sometimes a very aged person who may have been well known in his community and have many survivors could conceivably still have a large funeral. Again, this is absolutely not necessarily an indication that the centerian who isn't so fortunate to have such a large turnout (i.e., only the number of fingers on one hand is what the number of mourners are) was hated, but simply the fact that the less well-known decedant may have lived a private, anonymous life and was not well known outside his circle of friends and family.

* It's not so much a lonely funeral, but sometimes funerals that are "private"—that is, the service is attended by only those who are specifically and explicitly invited to come—have decidedly few people in attendance than ones that are "public." The reasons for private funerals vary, but one common reason is that the survivors want a simple funeral with only the most important people from the decedent's life attending, or the person is of such notoriety that it is best to keep the funeral "closed."

 

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