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'''[[Death Trope]]. Spoilers follow.'''
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== Live Action TV ==
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* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' has this trope, like many others, to an art form. It's played quite frequently in the Viper rec room, especially. Apollo's retirement toast is an awesome example of the trope. (involving five shots of a potent drink--quite possibly [[Military Moonshiner|eau de flight deck]]):
{{quote| "To Galactica!" (Apollo takes a first shot amidst cheers)<br />
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* ''[[Rescue Me]]'' does this fairly frequently (particularly the transition from [[Drowning My Sorrows]]), especially with respect to the firemen lost on 9/11 (a recurring theme, if not the central one of the show).
* At the end of ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' episode "Captain Jack Harkness", Jack and Tosh have a toast "To Captain Jack" in honor of the war hero whose identity Jack appropriated.
* In the final episode of ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'' Sheridan invites his surviving friends to have [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|dinner with him one last time]]. He then invokes the trope by name, and they name absent friends to toast to. Garibaldi names G'Kar, Vir names Londo, Delenn names Lennier, and Dr. Franklin and Ivanova name Marcus.
* ''[[The West Wing]]'' episode "Requiem" combines this with the [[Meaningful Funeral]] to provide a heartfelt (and [[Tear Jerker]]) send-off to Leo McGarry and, by extension, his actor John Spencer. Combined very effectively with the [[Meaningful Funeral]] at the beginning of the episode; the funeral is presented so as to mourn Leo's death (and Spencer's), whereas the wake is about celebrating his life and how much his friends loved him.
* [[The Next Generation]] has an episode in which they find Scotty persevered in a transporter beam for over seventy years. As the events of the episode wear down on Scotty, he takes a private moment alone in a holodeck simulation of the original Enterprise where he toasts to his now gone comrades.
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