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== Anime &and Manga ==
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', when the Sailor Senshi are transported to the lunar ruins of the Moon Kingdom they are greeted by the virtual ghost of Queen Serenity, Sailor Moon's mother from her previous life.
* Bunches of examples from ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]''.
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== ComicsComic Books ==
* The ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'''s Bishop had a sister named Shard who was essentially this.
* Jor-El in recent{{when}} ''[[Superman]]'' titles, riffing off [[The Movie]] and ''[[Smallville]]''.
* ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' has its usual unique take on this with foglets. When a person goes foglet tiny nanomachines eat his body for the energy to scan and download his brain. When it's done, the person is for all intents and purposes a ghost—floating through the air, making himself visible or invisible at will, and performing spooky miracles by reassembling matter at the molecular level. Though society in general doesn't think of it as death, Channon does:
{{quote|'''Channon:''' All ''I'' know is that they're going to dump {{spoiler|his}} mind into a bunch of machines the size of a fat virus and then burn {{spoiler|his}} body. Sounds like death to me.}}
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