The Mourning After: Difference between revisions

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For I love you still, my wife, and you're dead|''Táim shínte ar do h'uaighh'' (traditional Irish poem)}}

* In the [[Bollywood]] movie ''Mohabbatein'' the hero's girlfriend {{spoiler|killed herself because they couldn't be together. A decade later, the hero is still in love with her and can "see" her whenever he closes his eyes...}}

* [[Robin Williams]]' character Sean from ''[[Good Will Hunting]]''.

'''Sean:''' Time's up. }}

* A major character point for Carl in ''[[Up (animation)|Up]]''.

* {{spoiler|Malcolm's wife}} in ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'', {{spoiler|though this is [[Mistaken for Cheating]] for much of the movie until we learn that Malcolm was [[Dead All Along]].}}

* A major character point for Rocky in ''[[Rocky Balboa]]''. With characteristic eloquence, Sylvester Stallone says of Adrian:

* ''[[Babylon 5]]'': "Every morning for as long as she lived, Delenn got up before dawn and watched the sun come up."

* On ''[[ER]]'', we never see Elizabeth Corday show a hint of interest in anyone else after Mark Greene dies.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32 E1 The Impossible Astronaut|Impossible Astronaut]]", River Song says that her worst fear is having to do this after the Doctor no longer knows her (because of the [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] their relationship is happening roughly in reverse for each of them, she knows the Doctor more after each visit, but he knows her less because she's meeting him earlier in his timeline). This makes her first(last?) appearance and [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S4 E9 Forest of the Dead|Forest of the Dead]]" all the more poignant.

* ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]'' manages to invert this with a man who's constantly brooding on what his second wife is going to be like, much to the distress of his current wife.

* Debbie Gibson - "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xculPPFojK8 Foolish Beat]". The refrain "I could never love again.." says it all.

* "I Never Knew" by Deborah Cox:

* Another non-death example: "Crying" by Roy Orbison. "From now on, I'll be crying over you".

* Joanna the Mad - Queen of Castile - for her husband, Philip the Handsome. She took to carrying his coffin around with her and sleeping with it. Her grandson, Carlos I of Castile (Charles V Holy Roman Emperor) played this up a little when assuming rule on her behalf. She clearly had a screw loose, in addition to being a woman - two major handicaps for any sixteenth century would-be monarch.

* [[Queen Vicky|Queen Victoria]] of Great Britain remained in mourning for Prince Albert for the rest of her (long) life.

* There are some people who genuinely consider the death of a spouse to be very different from the dissolution of marriage; most people, however, consider the death of a spouse to be akin to a forced dissolution of their marriage.

* [[wikipedia:Nino Chavchavadze|Princess Nino Chavchavadze]], after her husband died ridiculously soon after their marriage.

* [[Knight Fever|Sir]] [[Patrick Moore]]. His fiancée was killed in [[World War II|1943 when a bomb hit]] the ambulance she was driving.

* James Buchanan, the only U.S. president to never marry, after his fiancée Ann Caroline Coleman's death. "Marry I could not, for my affections were buried in the grave." He seems to have eventually had romances and even reconsider his position on marriage, but never actually went through with it.

* [http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/840005-man-recreates-dead-lover-as-a-sex-doll Man recreates dead lover as a sex doll.]