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Compare [[Dying Alone]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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== Real Life ==
* Composer Sergei Prokofiev had the misfortune to die in Russia on the same day that Stalin died.
* Subverted by Peter Sellers- due to [[Small Name, Big Ego|his reputation]], he expected nobody to come to his funeral. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Hundreds did]].
* A well known [[Urban Legend]] involved an old woman who needed to use the bathroom in a funeral home, so she wrote her name on the list of people attending to a funeral of some old man. She was the only guest. Later we find out said man was very rich and conflicted with his family to the point he wrote in his last will that all his money will be inherited by people who attended his funeral.
* American founding father Thomas Paine, author of ''Common Sense'', a pamphlet frequently seen as among the influential publications of [[The American Revolution]], had a whopping ''six people'' show up at his funeral. Why? He had written a thesis (''The Age of Reason'') promoting deism and damning Christianity, which was...not a popular opinion at the time.
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