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[[File:Charles_Coleman_-_Funeral_March.jpg|frame|Charles Carol Coleman - Funeral March]]

 

''Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come."''|'''W. H. Auden''', ''Funeral Blues''}}

 

* ''[[Dragon Ball|Dragon Ball Z]]'': When Vegeta is killed by Frieza, Goku buries him on the spot with a few understanding words. In the English dub, the eulogy is a bit more long-winded.

* ''[[Naruto]]'': The funeral of the third Hokage and Iruka's talk with Naruto.

'''Asuma''': Even the heavens weep. }}

** Also, {{spoiler|Asuma's.}} The most meaningful part is who ''fails'' to show up.

* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' has Maes Hughes' funeral, one of the most infamous [[Tear Jerker|tear jerkers]] in the series. Mostly because his four-year-old daughter can't understand why they're burying her daddy, and tells them to stop because he has work to do.

'''Elysia''': Stop them, Mommy! Daddy needs to do his work! He told me! Why are you letting them bury Daddy, Mommy? Why? Daddy, wake up!!! }}

** Even more meaningful is the exchange between Mustang and Hawkeye after the service, both standing before Hughes' grave. Up to this point Mustang has been played as the flippant, arrogant man who seems incapable of doing anything wrong. The transmutation he speaks of could at worst kill him, and is a known sin.

'''Mustang''': *with a single tear rolling down his cheek* "Yes...it is." }}

** In the first anime, Mustang bitterly points out the [[Tragic Irony]] of how Hughes, who pulled from him the brink and offered career support from below, died first and was promoted above him. Somewhat understated, Mustang is angry that Hughes died, as Hughes was keeping him alive with this support.

* ''[[Runaways]]'' has one: {{spoiler|Gert's... in which Gert herself assisted as it was the funeral of her future self.}}

** Coupled with this exchange between Gert and Molly, it becomes a [[Tear Jerker]] [[Your Mileage May Vary|for some]]:

'''Gert''': Because this is how every story ends. }}

* {{spoiler|Morpheus' funeral}} in Neil Gaiman's ''[[The Sandman]]'' series. {{spoiler|As much for what goes on with the new incarnation of Dream and his brother Destruction as for the reactions of the attendees}}.

* The funeral and Speaking for {{spoiler|Ender}} at the end of [[Orson Scott Card|Children of the Mind]] was a fitting ending for the series.

* [[William Shakespeare]]'s [http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/334/ The Phoenix and the Turtle] (where "turtle" means "turtledove") is an account of a [[Meaningful Funeral]].

Lest the requiem lack his right.'' }}

* The funeral of {{spoiler|Theoden}} in [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.

* Numerous characters [[Anyone Can Die|die]] in the [[X Wing Series]]. Corran Horn had a ceremony, a speech in which Wedge urged everyone to keep fighting. (He wasn't actually dead.) In ''Wraith Squadron'', {{spoiler|Jesmin Ackbar}} has a [[Burial in Space]], one of the very few to show up in a [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Star Wars novel]]. This was complete with Wedge acting as her wingmate one last time and firing a symbolic proton torpedo, and a eulogy by Face, though the viewpoint character, depressed and angry because he couldn't save her, cynically wonders if Face's sorrow is real, since the guy was an actor. Considering the character, it probably was.

** In the Rogue Squadron comics, the first issue of "Family Ties" opens with a [http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/387385.html funeral for fallen Rogues]. Wedge reflects.

*** There's another funeral in the last issue. Wedge [http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/6508/swrsmr421.jpg eulogizes] [http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3714/swrsmr422.jpg for the pilot], and the series actually [[No Ending|ends]] on [http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8120/swrsmr423.jpg that note]. Really, {{spoiler|female Mon Calamari}} should never join any squadron headed by Wedge.

** In ''[[Star Wars/Allegiance|Allegiance]]'', Mara's ally dies. He [[Last Request|requested]] that she "bury him in space"

* The funeral of Genghis Khan at the end of ''[[Conqueror|Bones of the Hills]]'', which draws elements from Mongolian Shamanism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, and allows the entire nation to mourn the passing of a great man.

* ''[[Maximum Ride]]'' attempts to pull this off with {{spoiler|Ari's funeral}}, and surprisingly does well. For a scene that lasts all of eight pages, it's surprisingly effective.