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As you can probably see, the people at the center of this (the living ones, not the dead ones) are usually not "firing on all cylinders". (This is assuming they still have ''any'' cylinders left to fire.) This is usually because they just can't accept the loss of someone who was close to them, and would rather live [[Through the Eyes of Madness|in an alternate self-created reality where that person is still alive.]] This loss, of course, can be even ''more'' crushing if ''they themselves'' were responsible for their beloved's death in some way.
The lover or "protector" of the corpse will frequently speak to them and imagine them speaking back, although this is not to be confused with a [[Dead Person Conversation]], which is a conversation that ''may actually be taking place'' between a character and a spirit from the next world. Or even [[Talking to the Dead]], where a character expects no answer but has to vent. No. In order for a situation to qualify as
A lighter variation of this trope has the mourner obsessing over a beloved pet which he had stuffed and keeps around him, petting it and talking to it as though it's still alive. This is often played for comedy in [[Dead Baby Comedy|the shows where this kind of thing is apt to appear]].
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* In the ''[[Homicide: Life On the Street]]'' episode "The Documentary", a mortuary worker 'borrows' corpses, dresses them up and has dinner parties with them because he's so lonely. It's not made clear whether he has sex with them, however.
** 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
** Another episode self-parodies this, with JD telling Turk and a patient [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9vkEFyPmnQ what he wants done with his remains...]
* At the end of a ''[[Jonathan Creek]]'' episode, {{spoiler|"The Seer of the Sands"}}, it's discovered that the dead body which had disappeared had been stolen and taken home by a girl who was secretly in love with him.
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Even Though It's Been Years Since She Died'' }}
* Insane Clown Posse built a career out of this trope. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15fCvyz_xT8 "Cemetery Girl"] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejge52JAISI&feature=related "Dead Body Man"] being prime examples. "What kinda SICK FUCK WOULD STEAL FOUR DEAD BODIES ANYWAY? Details at Eleven."
* Melodic Death Metal band The Black Dahlia Murder has at least two songs of this, both prone to be [[Tear Jerker
* Gnarls Barkley's "Necromancer" is about not only keeping the body, but being the killer as well, although some lyrics mention the idea of suicide. Includes the lines "Did you hear what I said?/With this ring, I thee wed/A body in my bed/She was cool when I met her, but I think I like her better dead." Although it cloud also interpreted that the girlfriend is heavily addicted to drugs, to the point where she is metaphorically dead, i.e. her personality has been consumed by the addiction, and that the singer, instead of helping to her to quit the drugs, keeps feeding them to her, because it makes her docile.
* Played for laughs by country artist Joe Diffie in "Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox," when he requests that the audience do this for him when he's dead. He even asks for a stiff drink and a suitable date: a blonde mannequin. In the music video, a pair of friends do exactly this for their deceased buddy, breaking into the funeral home and carrying his body out between them. They make the corpse nod to the waitress, wave at a blonde a the bar, and clap to the music, while passing off his tendency to fall over as ordinary drunkeness, before finally leaving the corpse propped against the bar's jukebox at closing time.
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== Mythology ==
* The less [[
* [[Older Than Dirt]]: In ''[[The Epic of Gilgamesh]]'', the titular hero refuses to allow his beloved friend Enkidu to be buried, embracing his corpse, weeping over him, having one sided conversations with him, [[Please Wake Up|pleading with him to wake up]], "veiling his face like a bride's." He finally allows Enkidu to be buried after seven days, when a maggot falls out of Enkidu's nose. Eww... But at least he acknowledges the decomposition.
* The Egyptian goddess Isis collected, reassembled, and mummified her murdered husband Osiris's remains, although in this case her attempt to restore him to life was actually successful rather than just play-acting.
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* ''[[Homestuck]]'': {{spoiler|Jade's Grandpa. He was much easier to deal with when he was alive.}}
* In ''[[Sexy Losers]]'', one of the recurring characters has a crush on a suicidal girl. She eventually commits suicide and he decides to dig her corpse up and carry her around, still having a smiling expression her face. As for sex, he is not below {{spoiler|doing it in the neck}}. Later, it is found out even {{spoiler|his father}} is doing it to {{spoiler|his wife}}.
** It's worth mentioning that while she was alive he was trying to ''convince'' her to commit suicide, [[I Love the Dead|just so he could do this afterwards]]. His incredibly [[Squick
** In fact, her eventual suicide is ''accidental''. She bought a gun to kill him so he couldn't convince her not to go through with it through his creepiness next time, and she ends up grabbing it instead of her hair drier.
* Butch of ''[[Chopping Block]]'', being partially based on Bates. Except he still tries to off her from time to time.
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* [http://www.perpetualpet.net/ Perpetual Pet] is a company that will freeze-dry and mount your pets if you can't bear to let them go.
* Gustav II Adolf's wife kept his embalmed corpse around for far longer than was considered proper. When he was buried she had apparently removed his heart and kept it in a box. Eventually the royal council had to step in, take the heart away and send her daughter off to be raised by someone a bit more sane.
* Animals occasionally do this with their dead infants. It's slightly less [[
** Maybe because the other animals' reaction is much more [[
* There is a tale (probably apocryphal) about a drearily melodramatic stage play that ended the first act with the male lead cradling the corpse of his beloved and asking the rhetorical question "What should I do?". The second night, a wag in the audience shouted back "Fuck her while she's still warm!". On subsequent nights, many members of the audience repeated the riff. According to the legend, the play closed after a week.
** So, like an ancient version of what people do at showings of the [[Rocky Horror Picture Show]]?
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