Due to the Dead: Difference between revisions

** Earlier, his [[Rousing Speech]] said, "we may never be buried beneath Titan, so we will build our own memorial here."

* In Nick Kyme's ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' novel ''[[Salamanders|Salamander]]'', Tsu'gan fights fiercely to protect his dead captain's body; the next chapter features all his company attending his funeral.

** Later in the same book, he insists on {{spoiler|digging Dobby's grave by hand, rather than using magic.}}

** This is something even [[Big Bad|Voldemort]] respects allowing the schooll, besieged by his forces, time to mourn their dead.

* In "Sonnet 68" [[William Shakespeare]] laments the decline from the [[Good Old Ways]]; they did not use to take hair from corpses for wigs.

* In Stephen Hunt's ''The Court of the Air'', steam men decry that humans loot their bodies. Silver Onestack is regarded as an abomination because humans cobbled him together from three steam men, whose souls are therefore held captive. King Steam and the steam men, while not willing to kill him, refuse to help him, and Silver Onestack thinks it's cowardice on his part not to free them by dying.

* As per history, Griboyedov's corpse is torn into pieces and mutilated in other fascinating ays while being paraded across Tehran by an angry mob in ''[[The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar]]''.

* In ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'', after shooting his captive prey Buffalo Bill skins (and in one case scalps) their corpses and dumps them in a river, where they wash up on the muddy shores bloated, rotting and nude. Hannibal Lecter, the novel's other serial killer, butchered, cooked and ate parts of some of his victims, but he also did other things with their bodies, often with an artistic element. {{spoiler|When he escapes he kills the two officers guarding him and uses a pocketknife to cut the face off one of them to use as a disguise to get himself carried out of the building.}} In the movie the other officer is partially skinned and strung up on the bars of Lecter's cage to resemble a butterfly. Not only is this a reference to two important elements of Buffalo Bill's M.O., it is also a reference to a Francis Bacon painting.