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{{quote|''"From the stars we came, and to the stars we return, from now until the end of time. We therefore commit this body to the deep."''|''[[Babylon 5]]''}}
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* Happens in various ways in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], mostly the [[X Wing Series]].
** Corran's father's ashes were left to drift in space, apparently not in a container. While dating the daughter of his father's mortal enemy, he once jokes that his father's ashes are trying to coalesce to stop him.
** The drifting coffins variety seems to be the most popular version of this trope when a pilot's body can be recovered, appearing in several [[Meaningful Funeral
*** When a body ''can't'' be recovered, as happened to [[X Wing Series|Jesmin Ackbar]], a torpedo is used as a symbolic stand-in.
** ''[[Star Wars/Allegiance|Allegiance]]'' has a mortally wounded spacer named Tannis ask Mara Jade that she "bury him in space". She does.
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* The traditional Jorenian funeral in S. L. Viehl's ''[[Stardoc]]'' series consists of this. The Jorenians normally attempt to put their dead on a course that would result in cremation by star or by atmospheric reentry, but it doesn't always work out as planned (as the events of ''Plague of Memory'' can attest).
* In [[John Hemry]]'s ''A Just Determination'', a crewman is buried in space. His final trajectory is set for the sun.
* In [[Jack Campbell]]'s [[The Lost Fleet]] novel ''Invincible'', the fleet no longer has capacity to bring back its dead. Geary arranges for the corpses to be launched into the
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