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** The two characters ''are'' prematurely eulogized repeatedly throughout the entire episode, in conversations between crewmembers. Most importantly, the conversation between Data and Worf on board the shuttlecraft (to which both Geordi and Ro are privy) even contains a slight [[Lampshade Hanging]] by Geordi - As a bonus, he even uses the word "premature"!
* In an early ''[[Deep Space 9]]'' episode ''"The Armageddon Game"'', an alien government tries to kill Bashir and O'Brien after the two had helped them get rid of some biological weapons. The two escape the attack, but are trapped on the alien planet. The aliens, who do not wish Starfleet to come looking for the two escapees, produce a doctored tape showing O'Brien accidentally triggering some sort of security device which vaporizes both him and Bashir. Cue Premature Eulogies from pretty much everyone on the station, ''including Quark''.
** In this case, the audience knows that the two aren't dead, having seen them making their escape in the intro. This makes the Premature Eulogies especially glaring, but fortunately it doesn't take long before the station crew gets savvy about what really happened.
** In the episode ''The Visitor'', Jake Sisko recalls his father's funeral, where Major Kira gives a eulogy. Of course, Ben Sisko isn't dead, just frozen in time. He's [[Back From the Dead]] by the end of the episode.
** The ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'' episode ''Who Mourns for Morn'' from season 6 is practically made of this trope. Morn, a ''decidedly'' minor character in the series, "dies" in a freak accident and is eulogized by several of the regular characters. A sizeable portion of the episode is dedicated to eulogies and other sympathetic gestures by the show's regulars. By the end of the episode, it turns out {{spoiler|he faked his own death}}. ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'' is doing a double subversion here. The first subversion is the fact that Morn certainly doesn't answer the criteria you'd normally expect in a character being prematurely eulogized, or even mourned at all, for an entire episode - he has ''NO'' speaking lines, and only appears on screen for a dozen seconds an episode ''if he appears at all''. Other characters often speak of Morn as though he's a truly interesting, talkative and vibrant character, and we (the audience) only ever see him shrugging, nodding, or drinking. And the [[Premature Eulogy]] follows the same formula: everyone is eulogizing this insignificant minor character and telling stories about him as though he were one of the major protagonists. The second subversion is of course that this is probably one of the only instances in any [[Star Trek]] work where a eulogy isn't being taken with utter gravitas - normally a series staple. They're not eulogizing Spock, or Worf, or even [[Creator's Pet|Wesley]], they're eulogizing a character who has been given absolutely no depth or role anywhere in the series up to that point.
*** It should be noted however that although it's not being played straight, this is STILL a [[Premature Eulogy]] because by this point in the show's running many fans considered Morn to be a major [[Ensemble Darkhorse]], and it's likely that some were truly shocked when his death was announced. The episode manages to generate a lot of sympathy for a completely irrelevant character, then proceeds to make him very relevant, then brings him back to life at the end.
* Not to be left out, ''[[Voyager]]'' has its share of [[Premature Eulogy|Premature Eulogies]], but one glaring example is in the episode ''Coda'', where Janeway is stuck in a time-loop where she ends up dying over and over again. At one point, she becomes "detached" from her dead body, and is [[Attending Your Own Funeral|Attending Her Own Funeral]] with crewmembers gushing over her for a full four minutes. This shouldn't be surprising given that this episode was written by [[Mary Sue|Jeri Taylor]]. The narm levels go through the roof, just ''one'' reason why this is one of the lowest-rated episodes on the show.
** [[SF Debris]] pointed out the true irony of this particular eulogy: {{spoiler|It's all in Janeway's head. There is no time loop, no death, and no funeral. Meaning that this scene that is supposed to demonstrate how awesome Janeway is and how much her crew loves her and couldn't bear to be without her actually demonstrates that she has a massive ego and seriously overinflates her own importance.}}
* The greatest Star Trek one of all: Kirk eulogizing Spock, in ''[[Star Trek II:
** Oddly enough, Wrath of Khan is very borderline. A true Premature Eulogy is supposed to trigger a sense of loss in the viewers without any intention of actually losing the character, but in Wrath of Khan the writers weren't expecting Spock to come back at all! Leonard Nimoy was actually hoping to leave the franchise forever, it was the only reason he agreed to do the movie at all. To everyone's surprise, the movie ended up being so good that Nimoy did a complete 180 on his previous decision (he ended up ''directing the next film''). However, Spock's return was not 100% unintentional either, because by the time the movie was shot the director had caught the smell of success and decided to leave Nimoy a crack in the door - that shot of the coffin on Genesis. So the bottom line is that it's still a Premature Eulogy, but mostly in retrospect.
* Bagheera gives one for the unconscious Baloo in ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]''. He actually wakes up during the eulogy and enjoys it so much that when Bagheera is done, he gets up and happily asks him to keep going. Understandably, Bagheera is nearly reduced to [[Angrish]].
* An awful lot of examples will be homages to ''[[Tom Sawyer]]'', where Tom showed up for his own funeral.
* Blanche from ''Golden Girls'' once told a long embellished story about her childhood in which, to get back at her father for something trivial, she faked her death and showed up at her own funeral. Dorothy points out how off-topic it was, dubbing it ''Blanche: The Miniseries''.
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* The ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "The Sting" works on this premise, with the assumption that Fry died saving Leela. After this occurs, he's given a heartfelt funeral. Despite this being played for laughs (like the amazon saying he gave good "Snu-Snu"), the episode becomes extremely disturbing from that point on. Thankfully, in the end we discover that {{spoiler|it was Leela who was almost killed, and is lying in a coma hallucinating about Fry's death}}.
* [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]] - Battle of the Labyrinth, everyone at Camp Half-Blood thinks Percy's dead, and they are holding his funeral. Annabeth is reading his eulogy when Percy arrives back at camp, thus overlapping this with [[Attending Your Own Funeral]].
* Aeryn Sun gets one from Zhaan when she dies at the end of ''[[
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