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** It's made more clear in the book, but Kryten is basically in denial that they are dead so that he can continue to perform his programming and serve them, as he has no idea what to do once he can't do that anymore.
{{quote|'''Rimmer''': Terrific! Our first contact with intelligent life, and it's the android equivalent of [[Psycho|Norman Bates]]!}}
* In the ''[[Homicide: Life
** On another episode, an elderly woman died in her living room and her husband went a little...off, and convinced himself she was still alive. Again, no intimation of any sex involved.
* J.D., from ''[[Scrubs]]'', does-slash-subverts this with his dead, stuffed dog, Rowdy. The other characters just think J.D. has a hard time letting go of a beloved childhood pet—until Turk reveals that they got him from a garage sale when they were roommates in college. After that, pretty much every character spends some time playing with Rowdy, with Carla both thanking him for "finding" Turk's bandana and informing him he'll leave after she and Turk move in, at different occasions.
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* The vampire Brauner in ''[[Castlevania]]: [[Portrait of Ruin]]'' turned Eric Lecarde's daughters into vampires because he was under the delusional belief that they were the reincarnations of his own daughters (whom he had lost in World War One). Upon being told that they've been cured, he simply says he'll "make those two [his] daughters once again".
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]: [[Fire Emblem:
** Ah, but we do HEAR her. {{spoiler|Poor Monica just keeps repeating the word "darling" over and over again. Meanwhile, in the scene before he dies Orson is seen having a lengthy one sided conversation with her about her birthday before he's interrupted by news of your arrival.}}
* After his real family died, the mad priest Bassilus in the game ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' managed to form a fair-sized surrogate family... by killing people and [[Necromantic|raising them as zombies and skeletons]]. Then he spots you and decides you would make a good parent...
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* A sketch on ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' that combined ''[[The Smurfs]]'' with the movie ''Seven'' ends with Papa Smurf waltzing with Smurfette's beheaded corpse. Yeah, it's a weird show.
* In ''[[Stickin' Around]]'' the character Polly, despite being spectacularly well informed and articulate for her young age, cannot accept that her pet dog Pepperoni is dead.
* Played with in Season 4 of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', when {{spoiler|Number 21 is shown to have one-sided conversations with the skull of the deceased Number 24. We later see it from Number 21's perspective, and he is apparently talking to a ghost only he can see. In a subversion, 21 [[Took a Level
** The season finale seems to confirm that {{spoiler|he's just a delusion of 21's. Not only did one of the fellow "ghosts" 24 introduced him to never exist, but Dr. Orpheus (a professional necromancer) couldn't see 24, and he communicates with the dead all the time}}.
* Played for laughs in ''[[Family Guy]]'', when Brian goes to visit his mother and discovers that she's passed away; her owners had her stuffed and made into a table. Brian's horrified, while Stewie thinks it's hilarious.
** Also, Death - as in the Grim Reaper - has been a dinner guest at the Griffins house at least once. He's a pretty easy going and friendly fellow when you're not the one he intends to collect.
* Literal example with Irwin's parents on ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy]]''; his mother is an actual mummy. (His dad simply claims, "you never know who you'll fall in love with".) Unfortunately, this means Irwin's whole family has the mummy's curse (which they've learned to live with) and dinners at their house often include scarab beetles as a result.
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* Perhaps the squickiest real-life example: Carl Tanzler, a radiologist in 1930s Key West, Florida, who developed a morbid obsession for one of his young female patients. After she died, he built a mausoleum for her, but apparently that wasn't enough, so he carted away her body, hid it in his house, preserved it as best he could, and lived with her "as man and wife" for many years, until her family discovered the body. Tanzler was arrested for graverobbing, but was ultimately released, because the statue of limitations on the crime had expired. (Which shows you just how long the "relationship" went on...)
** A similar case took place in Japan in 1959. Dr. Karsuaburo Miyamoto was unable to accept his wife's death, so he embalmed the body and kept her in their conjugal bed for ten years before he was caught. [http://www.trivia-library.com/b/strange-history-and-news-of-weird-trivia-1959-to-1967.htm Source].
* The Peavey family of New Hampshire had a [https://web.archive.org/web/20091105230108/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297495,00.html mummified stillborn infant] as a sort of heirloom for 90 years, until a child let the secret slip and the state ordered that the body be buried. Though the family engaged in some playful acts with the body, like giving it cards on holidays and a dried fish for a pet, they never fully enacted this trope. (Someone in the past might have, however, considering the body was left unburied so long).
** Someone dug out [https://web.archive.org/web/20100510003646/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gnsBYieDL6mf_U5L8W7RFhNoo6BwD9FG8QL80 the grave] of that unfortunate corpse
* Ed Gein, the inspiration behind Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb.
* Then there was [[wikipedia:Joanna of Castile|Queen Juana of Castile]], queen regnant in the early 16th century, who was said to have kept her husband's body around for years after his death, and definitely did so for several months until the church stopped her. Otherwise known as Joanna the Mad.
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