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May or may not be a subtrope of [[Never Say "Die"]] (depending on the target audience of the work) and, should that be the case, a [[Sister Trope]] (albeit more versatile) to [[He Didn't Make It]]. It may also overlap with [[No Longer with Us]] (in which case it is almost always [[Played for Laughs]]) if the character has really gone to some great X in the sky (and this is mistook as an euphemism), or if the character has really died (and others believe that he has gone to the great X in the sky).
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''The Library Policeman'', the town's resident drunk, Dirty Dave, is said to have gone to the "great ginmill in the sky".
** In ''[[Needful Things]]'', Pop Merrill, who was relatively rich for a resident of Castle Rock, has gone to the "big flea-market in the sky".
* [[Discworld]]:
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
== [[Music]] ==
* "The Great Gig in the Sky" is the 5th track on [[Pink Floyd]]'s 1973 album ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon]]''. (The phrase has become popular for this trope since then, especially regarding musicians dying.)
* [[Allan Sherman]]'s "The Streets of Miami" (a parody of the folk song "The Streets of Laredo") involves two associates who get in a gunfight over which hotel in Miami is better ("I'm going to the
* A song by [[The Dead Milkmen]] titled "The Thing That Only Eats Hippies" states at one point that the creature sends its victims to 'that great folk festival in the sky'.
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* In an episode of ''[[Superfriends]]'', when Lex Luthor has Superman nearly beaten, he says that Superman will soon be going 'to that great Hall of Justice in the sky'.
* In the direct-to-TV movie ''[[Top Cat]] and the Beverly Hills Cats'', T.C. and the gang regretfully inform the niece of Gertrude Vandergelt that her aunt has "gone to the great country club in the sky".
* In [[
{{quote|'''Shriek:''' You're going to that great big litter box in the sky!
'''Lube:''' ''(Looks up)'' [[Comically Missing the Point|Where?]] }}
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