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{{quote|''"Death cannot stop true love. It can only delay it for a little while."''|'''Westley''', ''[[The Princess Bride (Film)|The Princess Bride]]''}}

Fate may have [[Star -Crossed Lovers|kept them apart]], the world may have frowned on their love, and conflict may have wormed itself between them, but they're finally together - too bad they had to die for it to happen.

[['''Together in Death]]''' is when a couple is literally or metaphorically reunited in death. They might be buried together, seen together in the afterlife, or their corpses discovered embracing one another. It's not necessarily a romantic couple - it can just as easily be a pair of siblings, a parent and child, or a couple of [[True Companions]].

== [[Anime]] andMangaand [[Manga]] ==

* Several times in ''[[WolfsWolf's Rain]]'':

* In the (somewhat (in?)famous [[Tear Jerker]]) ending of the anime version of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', Chrono and Rosette's bodies are found sitting on a bench together, their [[Intertwined Fingers|hands clasped]] and [[Go Out Withwith a Smile|smiling peacefully]]. They're buried together in a grave with a single headstone. Also, Rosette and Joshua met Chrono when they found him sleeping in the tomb of Mary Magdalene, although that's a bit of a variation since he was actually alive.

* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Mangamanga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'': A parent and child example in the movie with {{spoiler|Wrath walking into Izumi's arms at the Gate.}}

* Subverted in ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'': when Tot is fatally stabbed, Nagi has a telekinetic meltdown which destroys the house they're in and apparently kills him. Seeing the two lying next to one another in the wreckage, Yoji moves Nagi's hand to rest on top of Tot's in a [[Together in Death]] pose. After the surviving cast members have left, however, Tot gets up... and in another episode or two, Nagi shows up in perfect health and the incident is never mentioned again.

* In ''[[Mazinger Z]]'', Dr. Hell found the bodies of a man and his lover who had been [[Buried Alive]] together for being caught trying to break their [[Star -Crossed Lovers]] destinies. One half of each body was destroyed, so he stitched them together to create his most loyal supporter Baron Ashura.

** In ''[[Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-hen]]'', the two halves of Baron Ashura are actually {{spoiler|Tristan and Isolde}}.

* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5 Ds5D's]]'', Jack tries to do this during his duel with D-Carly by playing a trap card that would cause both of their life points to drop to 0 at the same time. She manages to stop him by activating a trap card that causes ''only'' her life points to 0 before Jack can activate his. [[Tear Jerker|Jack]] [[Tear Jerker|wasn't too happy about this turn of events.]]

* Romeo and Juliet in ''[[Romeo X Juliet]]''. Considering it ''is'' based on (no matter how loosely) ''[[Romeo and Juliet (Theatre)|Romeo and Juliet]]'', it's sort of a [[Foregone Conclusion]] from the start.

* ''[[Ai no Kusabi (Light Novel)|Ai no Kusabi]]'' {{spoiler|ends like this for Iason and Riki. For better/worse, they didn't ''have'' to die together. Only Iason was fatally injured after having his legs cut off, but Riki willingly stays by his side to have [[One Last Smoke]] and die with him.}}

* In ''[[Basilisk]]'', after {{spoiler|Oboro}} commits suicide both to ''not'' kill {{spoiler|Gennosuke}} and to [[Spanner in Thethe Works|screw up]] Ofuku's plan, {{spoiler|Gennosuke}} kills himself as well.

** Subverted earlier, when [[Despair Event Horizon|a maddened and dying]] {{spoiler|Kagerou}} tries to kill {{spoiler|Gennosuke}} too to invoke the trope, but {{spoiler|Oboro's [[Anti -Magic]] powers kick in and manages to stop her}}

* Given a very dark and tragic twist in ''[[King of Thorn (Manga)|King of Thorn]]'' with the final meeting between {{spoiler|Kasumi and Shizuku}}. One of the two has a chance at living, but wants them both to die together so they can be [[Together in Death]]. The second wants the first to take the opportunity to go on living. They argue over it. Tragedy, [[Freak -Out]], and [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]] ensue.

* In ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'', the [[Human Sacrifice|second twilight]]'s requirement of "tear[ing] apart the two who are close" often winds up playing around with this trope. Probably the most notable one was actually an intentional aversion where Beatrice {{spoiler|erases Kanon's corpse particularly so he and Jessica can't be together in death}}. And in the process frames him for the entire thing. [[Unreliable Narrator|Or Did She?]]

* Inversion/Subversion/SOMETHING: {{spoiler|Nanami and Yuzuru}} in [[Dance in Thethe Vampire Bund]], seeing as {{spoiler|Yuzuru openly welcomed vampirism if it meant he could stay by his beloved Nanami, and seeing her infatuation with her young boy lover, she wasn't about to say no}}, making it something more of a [[Together in Death|Together In]] '''[[Together in Death|UN]]'''[[Together in Death|death]].

* The 'together in the afterlife' variant is used for {{spoiler|Ryuuya and Uruha}} in ''[[AIR (Visual Novel)|AIR]]''.

* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', the immortal C.C. apparently [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|desires]] this outcome with her [[Yandere]] Mao for a while as she tells him to wait for her before giving him a [[Mercy Kill]] and then spends most of the series [[Death Seeker|attempting to ensure her own demise]].

* {{spoiler|Claude, Hannah, and the Macken brothers (Luka ''and'' Alois/Jim) }} in ''[[Black Butler (Manga)|Black Butler]]''.

* Subverted in the end of the ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' manga, as {{spoiler|Fujitaka does ''not'' need to die to see Nadeshiko again, since being one of the two reincarnations of Clow Reed (the other being Eriol) gives him the power to see her spirit.}}

* Deconstructed in ''[[Clannad (Visualvisual Novelnovel)|Clannad]]'' {{spoiler|Ushio}} dies in {{spoiler|Tomoya}}'s [[Died in Your Arms Tonight|arms]] and then he dies soon after from [[Death Byby Despair|despair]].

* {{spoiler|Kyouko Sakura and Sayaka Miki/Oktavia von Seckendorff}} in ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Anime)|Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''.

** Given what happens later, we can safely assume this is what happened to the two [[Star -Crossed Lovers]] [[Body Horror|who stretched, twisted and contorted their bodies together like mating snakes]] so their feuding families couldn't separate them before plunging in the lake {{spoiler|[[Eldritch Location|hiding the source of the spirals' curse]]}}.

* {{spoiler|Alma and Kanda}} in ''[[D .Gray Man-man]]''. Also Bak's parents where {{spoiler|after their deaths by Alma's hands}}, For arranges their bodies so that they were leaning towards each other and holding hands.

* ''[[Windaria (Anime)|Windaria]]'' - {{spoiler|Alan's goal}} is to reunite with his true love in the afterlife. The opening shows his soul bird flying to the place hers went off to.

* In ''[[Ranma One Half (Manga)|Ranma One Half½]]'', this trope is conversed, but not actually carried out, after Ranma and Akane eat [[Love Potion|Love Mushrooms]].

{{quote| '''Ranma:''' Let go of my hand, babe!<br />

'''Akane:''' I can't, honey!<br />

'''Ranma:''' If you don't, both of us will fall. Now, take this bag and get Ryoga to help you back up the cliff!<br />

* {{spoiler|Renda de Baroma and Duker Iq aka the local [[Battle Couple]]}}, in ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (Anime)|Victory Gundam]]''. Not only that, but {{spoiler|Odelo, Usso and Marbet have visions of [[Biker Babe|Renda]] and [[Badass Biker|Duker]] ''[[So Cool Its Awesome|actually riding in a Harley towards the afterlife]]''.}}

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Ralph Dibny, the [[Elongated Man]], always saw himself more as a detective than a superhero --... and after his wife Sue's murder, it seemed the DCU was determined to make him a [[Butt Monkey]] as well. But he got a measure of victory by the end of ''[[52 --]]''; he trapped Felix Faust and the demon Neron in Dr. Fate's tower, while they thought they were tricking him. It cost him his life, but he was reunited with Sue --— and it seemed they were going to spend the afterlife as Topper, instead of Nick and Nora.

** Then the most recent{{when}} [[Crisis Crossover]] just had to come along and muck it all up...

* There's a comic book version of the ''[[Turandot]]'' opera where this is invoked: {{spoiler|Instead of commiting suicide, a maddened and throughly broken Liu stabs Prince Calaf to death just as he manages to get through to [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Princess Turandot]] and give her a [[True LovesLove's Kiss]]. Cradling Calaf's lifeless body, Liu says they will be [[Together in Death]] while Turandot remains alone forever, as punishment for her cruelty; she then stabs herself and dies, leaving a sobbing Turandot with her hands empty.}}

* In the final moments of ''Somewhere in Time'' (with Chris Reeve and Jane Seymour), a [[Downer Ending]] where the [[Star -Crossed Lovers]] seem to be separated forever and then both die is transformed into a [[Together in Death]] [[Bittersweet Ending]] by showing them meeting and embracing in the afterlife.

* The death of Maximus in ''[[Gladiator (Filmfilm)|Gladiator]]'' (though since the protagonist was dying from poison and internal bleeding, this may or may not have been a hallucination).

* Classic example; ''[[The Ghost and Mrs. Muir]]''. Lucy Muir and Captain Greg (the ghost) become closer as he dictates his life story to her, which she then sells to a publisher to make her fortune. Realizing that [[Star -Crossed Lovers|it could never be]], he leaves reluctantly. At the end of the movie, when Lucy dies of old age, Captain Greg is there to escort her spirit to the afterlife.

* {{spoiler|Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung) and Broken Sword (Tony Leung)}} in [[Hero (Filmfilm)|Hero]]. Made even worse because {{spoiler|she is the one who stabs him to death, as he has betrayed her and others to the King. He dies in her arms as he explains his reasons; he didn't do it out of pure malice, but to show her that he wants peace for the future. She mourns him and then kills herself, joining him.}}

* The French film ''Love Me If You Dare'' (French title ''Jeux d'enfants''). Since our [[Star -Crossed Lovers]] can only be together on a dare, they end up getting themselves {{spoiler|buried in concrete. This way they can share a kiss that will last forever while also giving you nightmares forever}}. It's hard to say how aware they are of the consequences of what they do, though.

* ''[[Alien (Filmfranchise)|Aliens]]'': [[Inverted Trope]]: [[Vasquez Always Dies|Private Vasquez]] is covering the heroes' retreat, only to end up mortally wounded and crippled, with more bearing down on her. [[Ensign Newbie|Lieutenant Gorman]] doubles back to help her, and ends up trapped with her, the both of them [[Better to Die Than Be Killed|huddled together holding a live grenade]]. Catch is, there really wasn't much mutual affection between them, with quite a bit of active animosity towards Gorman from Vasquez.

{{quote| '''Vasquez''' ''[[Famous Last Words|You always were an asshole, Gorman.]]''}}

* In ''[[Twenty Eight Days Later|28 Days Later]]'', the protagonist returns home to find his parents' partially-decomposed bodies cuddling in their bed and their [[Last Words|last message]] [[Tear Jerker|to him]].

* "Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever" we are told in the movie adaptation of ''[[The Crow]]'' in which Eric Draven is murdered along with his [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|fiancee]] the night before their wedding and comes back from the dead for a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]. The theme of the first film, increasingly amplified throughout the subsequent franchise, is that "If two people are truly meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart. Not even death."

* A nonromantic example comes at the end of ''[[Glory (Film)|Glory]]'' when Colonel Shaw (played by Matthew Broderick) and Denzel Washington's character are buried side-by-side along with the rest of the the all-black 54th Massachusetts Regiment. This was [[Truth in Television]], as the Confederate soldiers who put Shaw there intended it as an insult since he was their white commander, but Shaw himself would've been honored by this.

* A non-human example occurs in the film ''[[Rodan]]''. During the climax of the film, the area where the Rodans are nested is being bombarded with an areial assault. The female Rodan falls into a volcano and dies. Unable to bear being without his mate, the male Rodan dives into the volcano with her and dies as well.

* The ending of ''Escape From The [[Planet of the Apes]]''. Cornelius is shot and, either dying or already dead, falls from his perch to the deck of the derelict ship he and Zira have been hiding on. Zira, already wounded, crawls over to him and lays down beside him to die.

* Kelly and Katsumi from ''[[Sayonara]]''. The U.S. Air Force is insisting that he come back to America without her, so the two, inspired by a puppet show depicting a traditional star-crossed-lovers/together-in-death story, commit suicide by consuming poison. [[Marlon Brando]]'s character finds their bodies when he comes--acomes—a little too late--tolate—to inform them that the Air Force has decided to allow airmen to take war brides home.

* Implied at the end of ''[[Bram StokersStoker's Dracula]]'' as Drac/Vlad is finally forgiven by God. As Mina watches, the vampire curse lifting from her as she gives the final blows. She notices the fresco in the building above her lighting up with a picture of Vlad and Elisabeta (the lover Mina is supposedly reincarnated from) apparently reunited in Heaven.

* ''[[BeetleBeetlejuice Juice(film)|Beetlejuice]]'' has a rare lighthearted approach, where Adam and Barbara Maitland are stuck as ghosts haunting their own home. Even in death, they remain a [[Happily Married]] couple.

== [[Literature]] ==

* At the end of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Literaturenovel)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', they find {{spoiler|Quasimodo's}} skeleton so intertwined with {{spoiler|Esmeralda's}} that when they try to remove it, it falls to dust.

* Combined with [[Ironic Hell]] in ''[[The Divine Comedy (Literature)|The Divine Comedy]]''-- the—the [[Your Cheating Heart|illicit lovers Paolo and Francesca di Rimini]] embrace in Hell, but according to the usual interpretation, their union serves as an eternal reminder of their sin rather than a continuation of true love beyond the grave.

* Horlick and Claire Minton from [[Kurt Vonnegut|Kurt Vonnegut's]] ''[[Cats Cradle|Cat's Cradle]]'' die in this way, falling to their deaths while still holding each other's hand.

* In ''[[Outlander (Literaturenovel)|Dragonfly In Amber]]'', Claire finds a pair of skeletons, almost like the page image, in a cave, and reflects on this trope.

* [[JRRJ. R. R. Tolkien (Creator)|JRR Tolkien]]'s tragic lovers Beren and Lúthien from ''[[The Silmarillion (Literature)|The Silmarillion]]''. They are separated and reunited in death, twice! Special because, being a human and an elf, they would not have had the same fate after death, but, through divine intervention, got the one exception. After their first death they were sent back for a short time to live a happy life together, and after their second death Lúthien's spirit was allowed to follow Beren's out of this world, as human souls do.

** Likewise Arwen in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|Lord of the Rings]]'' chose a mortal fate after death in order to be with Aragorn even if she survived him long enough to go to Lothlórien and die on Cerin Amroth where she made her promise in the first place. She also famously is Lúthien's descendant (so is Aragorn) and near-likeness.

** [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tolkiengrab.jpg |So could this]]. Awwwww.

* ''[[Wuthering Heights (Literaturenovel)|Wuthering Heights]]''. When Linton is buried next to Catherine, [[Love Makes You Crazy|Heathcliff]] takes the opportunity to open her coffin and look at her. He bribes the sexton to ensure that he'll be buried on her other side when he dies and knocks out that side of her coffin so they can be sealed in together. Then he wastes away and starves himself to death, whether with the specific intent of killing himself or just because all he cares about is dying so he can be with Catherine.

* [[Harry Potter]] sees [[Star -Crossed Lovers|Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks]] like this at the end of ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows''. [[Babies Ever After|Their son survives them though]].

* The [[Deadly Distant Finale]] to Jon Cleary's ''The Golden Sabre'' mentions that the male and female leads died in a plane crash several decades after the main events -- holdingevents—holding hands, happy to be together, even in this.

* In a non-romantic example, the [[Distant Finale]] of Douglas Reeman's ''HMS Saracen'' reveals that the ship's captain died somethingtwenty-three likeyears after he won the Victoria Cross commanding ''Saracen'' in [[World War II]].<ref>''Saracen'' had also, twenty-six years afterbefore '''that''' in [[World War I]], been the mainfirst storyship he served on.</ref> A minor character realizes the probable cause of death was a heart attack brought on by seeing film of ''Saracen'' being used as a target for a missile test, and thinks, ''So even at the end, they werehad been together''.

* In one [[Bruce Coville (Creator)|Bruce Coville]] edited collection of short stories, ("Not From Detroit") an old man ''[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|beats up Death with a wrench]]'' when Death claims his wife. When Death explains that he can't let her come back to life, the old man asks Death to take him as well since he and his wife wanted to die together. Death agrees and brings back the wife just long enough so that they can die holding hands together. Death is even nice enough to let their souls out during the ride to the afterlife so they listen to tunes on his radio.

* In ''[[Septimus Heap (Literature)|Septimus Heap]],'' one of the important characters is a ghost named Alther: Formerly a wizard, he now flies around the castle as a ghost. When he was alive, he loved another wizard named Alice Nettles, who also loved him. {{spoiler|Alice [[Taking the Bullet|Takes A Bullet]] for Princess Jenna, saving her life but killing Alice. However, Alther joins her new ghost, and sits with her every day for the six months it takes for her ghost to become fully mobile. And they go on to have a very happy death together.}}

* In the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' novel ''Crookedstar's Promise'', {{spoiler|1=Mapleshade mocks Crookedstar, telling him that he has lost everything because all his loved ones died. Crookedstar [[Warrior Cats (Literature)/Awesome|epically]] tells her off, informing her that now all his loved ones wait for him in StarClan, so when he dies, he'll be with them again.}}

{{quote| Rhaegar won, damn him. I killed him, Ned, I drove the spike right through that black armor into his black heart, and he died at my feet. They made up songs about it. Yet somehow he still won. He has Lyanna now, and I have [[God Save Us From the Queen|her]].}}

* In ''[[The Jungle Book (Literaturenovel)|The Jungle Book]]'', when Mother and Father Wolf die Mowgli sings their death-song and seals them in their lair.

* Vlad Dracula and Elizabeth Bathory in ''[[Count and Countess (Literature)|Count and Countess]]''.

* At the end of ''[[Beachwalker (Literature)|Beachwalker]]'', it’s heavily implied that {{spoiler|the [[Nameless Narrative|Beachwalker and her Starfish]]}} go to the afterlife together, possibly with him escorting her there.

== [[Live -Action TV]] ==

* The [http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Adam_and_Eve two skeletons] found in an early ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'' episode might be an example, but their past and identity is unknown.

* A creepy example in the ''[[MST3KMystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode "[[Tormented]]": after the protagonist is [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]], the body of the antagonist is discovered and lain on the beach beside his; her arm automatically wraps itself around him.

* An episode of ''[[The X-Files (TV)|The X-Files]]'' has a nasty variation on this: a pair of skeletons are found lying in a field. It turns out to be the skeletons of a married couple that were [[Nightmare Fuel|captured by a carnivorous fungus]]. The organism gave off hallucinogens that made the couple believe that they were [[Lotus Eater Machine|lying down and cuddling in their own bed.]]

* In a ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' tie-in, [http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels/downloads/Heroes_novel_104.pdf two of Sylar's victims] are depicted this way; one of whom lied in order to protect his love's ability. It's quite a [[Tear Jerker]] too.

* [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (2004 TV series)|"I'll see you on the other side]], {{spoiler|[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (2004 TV series)|Kara]]}}."- {{spoiler|[[Tear Jerker|Sam Anders]]}}

* In the season finale of the BBC's ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'', Robin {{spoiler|is mortally wounded by a poisoned dagger and stumbles into Sherwood Forest. As he dies, an apparition of Marian appears, and the couple are last seen embracing and laughing in the forest.}}

* In the ''[[Bones (TV)|Bones]]'' episode "Aliens in a Spaceship," there's a spectacularly sad platonic example. Twin brothers had been sealed in a vat with only 12 hours' worth of air, and there's an unusual amount of blood pooled on the bottom from one of them, caused by a mysterious wound that punctured an artery in his neck. They find out ''how'' it happened easily enough (a pen was used) but it takes until the end of the episode to find out ''why'': {{spoiler|He killed himself [[Tear Jerker|to give his brother the rest of the oxygen]].}}

* The latest version of ''[[Wuthering Heights (Literaturenovel)|Wuthering Heights]]'' shows Heathcliff and Cathy together looking down from an upstairs window as Cathy II departs to start her new life.

* The [[Speculative Documentary]] by Animal Planet ''[[Dragons: aA Fantasy Made Real]]'' had the body of the mother dragon and the child dragon in the museum together after it was recovered and studied by the scientists.

* ''[[Star Trek: the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek theThe Original Series]]'': The alien [[Energy Beings]] Sargon and Thalassa in "Return to Tomorrow".

* In the series finale of ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' {{spoiler|Illyria shapeshifts into Fred and consoles the dying Wesley that she'll be waiting for him. [[Subverted Trope|She's lying, and he knows it.]]}}

* ''[[American Horror Story (TV)|American Horror Story]]'': {{spoiler|The fate of the entire Harmon family. Couple-wise, Ben and Vivien are both finally happy together in death. Tate and Violet might end up this way if she ever comes around to forgiving him. He's willing to wait.}}

* ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]'': Although never outright stated, it is heavily implied that John Sheridan and Delenn found each other again Beyond The Rim, which almost begins to make up for {{spoiler|the eighty years she had to live without him due to his [[Living Onon Borrowed Time]]}}.

* ''[[Being Human (TVUK)|Being Human]]'': [[Tear Jerker|"I have to be with my]] {{spoiler|Nina"}}- {{spoiler|George, in ghost form, moments after his death by heroic sacrifice}}

{{quote| He lies in St. Mary's kirk and she lies in the choir,<br />

And out of her grave grows a rose and out of his a briar.<br />

So at last their souls entwine and now as one are climbing;<br />

* Johnny Preston's "Running Bear" (written by the Big Bopper) is a [[Romeo and Juliet (Theatre)|Romeo and Juliet]] story which ends with Running Bear trying to swim across the river to White Dove. When he gets in trouble she jumps in to save him and both are drowned. "Now they'll always be together in the [[Braids, Beads, and Buckskins|happy hunting ground]]."

* This is the subject of "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" by [[Death Cab for Cutie (Music)|Death Cab for Cutie]].

* Milky the Milk Carton (and his strawberry milk carton lover) at the end of the music video for "Coffee & TV" by [[Blur (Musicband)|Blur]] (combined with [[Ascend to Aa Higher Plane of Existence]]).

* Pyramis and Thisbe: (Classical Mythology, famously parodied by [[William Shakespeare (Creator)|Shakespeare]] in ''[[A Midsummer NightsNight's Dream (Theatre)|A Midsummer Nights Dream]]'') [[Ovid (Creator)|Ovid]] tells us that the fruit of the mulberry bush under which the star-crossed lovers died turned red with their blood, and their ashes rest in a single urn.

* Husband and wife Ceyx and [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Alcyone |Alcyone]] from Greek mythology. After Ceyx is lost at sea, Alcyone throws herself into the sea, and both are transformed into kingfisher birds by the gods.

* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovers_of_Teruel:Lovers of Teruel|The Lovers of Teruel]]. According to this Spanish myth, [[The Ojou]] Isabel waited for the return of her [[Victorious Childhood Friend]] Diego, who had left Teruel to search for the fortune and fame he needed to marry her. After several years, Diego returned home... right after she had married [[Romantic False Lead|someone else]]. After a secret last talk, poor Diego ''literally'' [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him|dropped dead at Isabel's feet]]; the next morning, she showed up in his funeral clad in her wedding dress, and after a [[Last Kiss]] she also fell dead. They were buried together.

* The famous [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_Lovers:Butterfly Lovers|Butterfly Lovers]] from Chinese folklore. They've been compared to Romeo and Juliet. Intelligent and beautiful Zhu Yingtai disguises herself as a man to attend school, where she falls in love with scholar Liang Shanbo. While they become good friends, despite Yingtai's many hints, Shanbo remains an oblivious nerd who doesn't realize Yingtai's true gender until years later. He falls in love with her, but she's been betrothed to another man. Shanbo pines away and dies. On her wedding day, Yingtai throws herself into Shanbo's grave, and both are resurrected as butterflies. It's particularly Asian in that it's not necessarily [[Together in Death]], but together in rebirth.

=== Opera ===

* In Wagner's ''[[DerThe Ring Desof Nibelungenthe (Theatre)Nibelung|Götterdämmerung]]'' Brünnhilde immolates herself in Siegfried's funerary pyre.

* Wagner's adaptation of the [[Tristan and Isolde (Literature)Iseult|Tristan and Isolde]] legend is one long exploration of this trope.

* In ''[[Ghost Trick: (VideoPhantom Game)Detective|Ghost Trick]]'', Yomiel's fiancee tries to invoke this trope by killing herself after Yomiel dies. This is one of the largest causes for Yomiel's [[Start of Darkness]].

{{quote| ''I'm coming for you, Yomiel...''}}

* While exploring in ''[[BioBioShock Shock(series)]]'', you can find the remains of a couple who committed suicide together lying in their bed. Listening to the nearby audio diary, you find out [[Driven to Suicide|why]]: {{spoiler|their daughter Masha, given up to an orphanage when they could no longer provide for her, has been turned into a Little Sister.}}

* Aeris and Zack in the Compilation of ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]''.

* Lenne and Shuyin from ''[[Final Fantasy X 2 (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X -2]]''. Both got shot to death and died by each other's side. Their spirits did not end up together...{{spoiler|at least, not until Yuna reunites them}}.

* Similar example on ''[[Bio WareBioWare]]'''s part was a [[Dummied Out]] (but easily restored) female-only ending for ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]''. If the female [[Player Character]] has completed the [[Romance Sidequest]] with Carth, but chosen the Dark Side, he shows up at the Star Forge to make a last-ditch plea for you to {{spoiler|turn on Bastila}} and die on the Star Forge with him.

{{quote| '''Matthew''': Leila...<br />

* Alice and Decus from ''[[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]''. Though Decus was annoying and Alice was plain evil, you can't help but feel for the pair, especially if you know their backstory.

* In ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Curse of Monkey Island]]'', one of the game's puzzles involves reuniting two dead lovers (a ghost and a skeleton, respectively). When the heartbroken ghost discovers that her lover had never intended to abandon her, their spirits are shown reuniting and then vanishing happily together.

* In the second ending of ''[[Nie RNieR]]'', after killing {{spoiler|The Shadowlord/Gestalt Nier}}, he appears in a white void with {{spoiler|all the other boss shades and Gestalt Yonah.}}

* According to [[Word of God]], {{spoiler|RED Spy and BLU Sniper}} in ''[[Cuanta Vida (Webcomic)|Cuanta Vida]]''.

* The first panel of [httphttps://robotandghostweb.comarchive.org/wp-contentweb/gallery20200328120659/2005http:/2005-03-10-Science/findresults.jpgsite/?rpid=2POQ7BC1G this] [[Simulated Comic Product]] comic shows a young man next to his dead wife's tombstone, vowing he will use science to be re-united with her. The rest of the comic shows a montage of his scientific career, {{spoiler|older in each panel, until the last shows the same scene as the first, with two tombstones.}}

* Parodied in ''[[Buttlord GT]]'' after nearly everyone dies. "Awesome! All my friends are [[Death Is a Slap Onon The Wrist|dead and safe!]]"

* In ''[[Spider -Man: theThe Animated Series]],'' [[Never Say "Die"|of all]] [[Family -Friendly Firearms|things]], {{spoiler|Mysterio's lover is an actress who was disfigured. She kidnaps Mary Jane for a body-swap, but Mysterio's body-switching machine turns out to not actually work - and never had. He'd been trying to give her hope. When she discovers this, she activates the [[Self -Destruct Mechanism]] (okay, ''[[Fridge Logic|why on Earth]]'' does it have one of those?) because she'd rather die than not be beautiful. Spider-Man urges Mysterio to run, but Mysterio chooses to stay behind and die with her.}} No, they don't get better. In fact, though we still don't get the word "dead," there were none of the expected attempts to sweep it under the rug or make it [[Only Mostly Dead]] - it even gets referenced later on.

* Presumably this was the logic for {{spoiler|Nox [[Driven to Suicide|killing himself]] on his late family's grave}} in the season one finale of ''[[Wakfu (Animation)|Wakfu]]''. With [[Dying Alone|no one to bury him]], [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|his remains are blown away by the wind]].

* Happens to Ferdy the fox at the end of ''[[TheresThere's Good Boos Tonight]]''. {{spoiler|He is shot by a hunter, only to come back to life as a ghost after [[Casper the Friendly Ghost|Casper]] mourns his death.}}

* At the end of the ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' episode, "May the Best Stan Win", Stan and Francine are shown as skeletons in the same coffin.

* Many of the bodies found at Pompeii and Herculaneum are intertwined like this. (Sometimes in couples, sometimes in large groups. Practically the whole city was [[Together in Death]].)

* [[Star -Crossed Lovers|A Muslim woman marries an Hindu man]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8109805.stm Their local council disagrees for religious reasons and threatens to kill them. They kill themselves first to not be separated.] [[Tear Jerker|Damn it.]]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120602011746/http://www.katu.com/news/local/118655274.html Somewhat more recently] a 60 year old man suffered a heart attack while trying to revive his 59 year old wife after she collapsed.

{{quote| '''Eng:''' "He's my brother. We've been together even from before we were born. [[Death Byby Despair|I won't live without him!]]"}}

* Nick and Mary Yankovic, the parents of [["Weird Al" Yankovic]], died together in their sleep due to accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. Al has said that he took some comfort in knowing that neither one of them ever had to live without the other. They'd been married for 55 years.

* This is the idea behind the [[httpwikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealing_<!-- 28Mormonism29Sealing (Mormonism)|Temple Sealing]] ceremony in the LDS Church; such a marriage is not "until death do us part" but beyond. -->

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