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* In Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti's ''Pieta'', Mary never touches UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}' skin, but rather holds Him with cloth out of respect for His sacred corpse.

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* In Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti's ''Pieta'', ''Pietà'', Mary never touches UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}' skin, but rather holds Him with cloth out of respect for His sacred corpse.

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* Violating graves or desecrating corpses are among the many offenses that can be grounds for a Powers check in a TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}} game. Not that this stops a hell of a lot of necromancers, golem-crafters, ghouls, and other baddies from doing it... For religions that place special emphasis on the sanctity of the dead, defiling a tomb is in fact considered an [[MoralEventHorizon Act of Ultimate Darkness]] that always gets the Dark Powers attention.

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* Violating ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'': The Dark Powers enforce several gothic horror tropes in the Demiplane of Dread, so violating graves or and desecrating corpses are among the many offenses that can be grounds for attract their attention. For religions that place special emphasis on the sanctity of the dead, defiling a Powers check in a TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}} game. tomb is an Act Of Ultimate Darkness that ''always'' catches their interest. Not that this stops a hell of a lot of necromancers, golem-crafters, ghouls, and other baddies from doing it... For religions it...
* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'': The Hollow Mekhet, a vampire variant from ancient Egypt that's [[AnatomyOfTheSoul missing part of their soul]], can only be created from a dead body
that place special emphasis on was not properly laid to rest. The sample character's progenitor took the sanctity simple approach of the dead, defiling a tomb is in fact considered an [[MoralEventHorizon Act of Ultimate Darkness]] that always gets the Dark Powers attention. trashing her gravesite after she was buried.

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* ''WebVideo/OriginsSMP'': Tubbo disrupting Shelby's burial ground to build an alleyway of sorts caused her to return as a ghost.
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* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', the usual alignment expectations are subverted. After [[spoiler: Vernal's murder by Cinder and Cinder's subsequent DisneyVillainDeath]], Raven takes a moment to close [[spoiler: Vernal's]] eyes and thank her for her service to the tribe. The characters in question are members of a ruthless BanditClan, but they're very much loyal to each other.

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* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', the usual alignment expectations are subverted. After [[spoiler: Vernal's [[spoiler:Vernal's murder by Cinder and Cinder's subsequent DisneyVillainDeath]], Raven takes a moment to close [[spoiler: Vernal's]] [[spoiler:Vernal's]] eyes and thank her for her service to the tribe. The characters in question are members of a ruthless BanditClan, but they're very much loyal to each other.


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* In ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'', after [[Characters/DragonBallSonGoku Goku]] gets his [[spoiler:brain disintegrated thanks to [[EyeBeams Heat Vision]] and powers down to normal form from SSGSS at the end of the rematch]], [[Main/NeckLift his neck]] is let go and he begins falling towards the ground, [[Characters/SupermanTheCharacter Kal-El]] accompanies the falling corpse before grabbing the Saiyan's body and cradling it as he flies towards the ground, choosing and preferring to prevent Goku's body from landing in an undignified crumpled heap.

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[[Characters/DragonBallSonGoku Goku]] gets his [[spoiler:brain disintegrated thanks to [[EyeBeams Heat Vision]] and powers down to normal form from SSGSS at the end of the rematch]], [[Main/NeckLift his neck]] is let go and he begins falling towards the ground, [[Characters/SupermanTheCharacter Kal-El]] accompanies the falling corpse before grabbing the Saiyan's body and cradling it as he flies towards the ground, choosing and preferring to prevent Goku's body from landing in an undignified crumpled heap.heap.
** After [[Manga/{{Berserk}} Guts]] DiedStandingUp, his opponent [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Dimitri]] chooses to defend his body from the God Hand which came to claim Gut's soul.
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--->'''Moloch von Zinzer:''' You [[MadScientist madboys]] can do whatever sick stuff you want on your ''own'' turf, but any one of them could've been you, or ''me!'' We'll treat them with ''respect!''
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* Norwegian painter Erik Werenskjold's most famous painting, ''En Bondebegravelse'', depicts a farmer's burial. Notably it shows people of simple means doing their best to honor someone in whatever ways they can; The people gathered are few, presumably only close friends and family, here is no priest, since travel takes weeks and they couldn't let the body lie for long in the summer heat, but they have called a school teacher or similar respected figure to read from the bible, and there's a stick in the grave showing that it still needs last rites for whenever the priest has time to visit.
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* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': In the novel "Godeater's Son", the HeroAntagonist Stormcast Eternal goes to quite a lot of trouble to give the Chaos-cultists she kills proper funerary rights in the hopes of keeping their souls from being claimed by the Chaos gods. Given what the Chaos gods are known to ''do'' with souls, even those of their worshippers (''especially'' those of their worshippers) this is quite the PetTheDog moment, though the VillainProtagonist just sees it as Sigmar trying to stake his claim on the souls of people who didn't want him, and it's highly ambiguous if it even works.
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* This is what Music/{{Belly}} song "Feed the Tree" is about, namely, paying respects to a grave where a tree is growing.

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* This is what Music/{{Belly}} Music/{{Belly|Band}} song "Feed the Tree" is about, namely, paying respects to a grave where a tree is growing.
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These rites have been incorporated in art as a trope, as a mark of character, and is OlderThanDirt, with funeral rites in art from ancient civilizations. '''Evil''' characters will "mourn" their dead via [[DishonoredDead violating proper treatment]] of a corpse by [[DesecratingTheDead mutilating]], [[OurZombiesAreDifferent reanimating]], or even [[ImAHumanitarian eating]] [[ScavengersAreScum the dead]], though Due to the Dead is one of the most common [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards villains maintain]]. '''Good''' characters will (rarely!) do the same to a dead CompleteMonster or the like, but usually are marked by their proper respect for the dead, down to even letting {{Revenge}} end when the villain is dead; if they have to destroy bodies to contain a plague, or display it to prove that he is really dead, they will often find it DirtyBusiness. Granting proper due can also be show of respect symbolic of a formerly-evil character's redemption; especially when RedemptionEqualsDeath.

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These rites have been incorporated in art as a trope, as a mark of character, and is OlderThanDirt, with funeral rites in art from ancient civilizations. In some cases, you can tell whether a group or species is AlwaysChaoticEvil or AlwaysLawfulGood based on how how they mourn their dead. '''Evil''' characters will "mourn" their dead via [[DishonoredDead violating proper treatment]] of a corpse by [[DesecratingTheDead mutilating]], [[OurZombiesAreDifferent reanimating]], or even [[ImAHumanitarian eating]] [[ScavengersAreScum the dead]], though Due to the Dead is one of the most common [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards villains maintain]]. '''Good''' characters will (rarely!) do the same to a dead CompleteMonster or the like, but usually are marked by their proper respect for the dead, down to even letting {{Revenge}} end when the villain is dead; if they have to destroy bodies to contain a plague, or display it to prove that he is really dead, they will often find it DirtyBusiness. Granting proper due can also be show of respect symbolic of a formerly-evil character's redemption; especially when RedemptionEqualsDeath.
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One mark that distinguishes humans from nonhumans is that humans have funeral rites; they regard something as [[TitleDrop due to the dead]] and have for a long time. Indeed, since burials leave archeological evidence, we know that they occurred [[OlderThanDirt as many as 300,000 years]] ago, as a practice among the Neanderthals.

Unsurprisingly, this has been incorporated in art as a trope, as a mark of character, and is OlderThanDirt, with funeral rites in art from ancient civilizations. '''Evil''' characters will "mourn" their dead via [[DishonoredDead violating proper treatment]] of a corpse by [[DesecratingTheDead mutilating]], [[OurZombiesAreDifferent reanimating]], or even [[ImAHumanitarian eating]] [[ScavengersAreScum the dead]], though Due to the Dead is one of the most common [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards villains maintain]]. '''Good''' characters will (rarely!) do the same to a dead CompleteMonster or the like, but usually are marked by their proper respect for the dead, down to even letting {{Revenge}} end when the villain is dead; if they have to destroy bodies to contain a plague, or display it to prove that he is really dead, they will often find it DirtyBusiness. Granting proper due can also be show of respect symbolic of a formerly-evil character's redemption; especially when RedemptionEqualsDeath.

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One mark that distinguishes humans from nonhumans Funeral rites are the last honor given to the physical remains of the dead, or sometimes if no body is that humans have funeral rites; they regard available, the memory of the remains. Funeral rites are regarded as something as that is [[TitleDrop due to the dead]] and have for a long time. Indeed, since burials leave archeological evidence, we know that they occurred [[OlderThanDirt as many as 300,000 years]] ago, as a practice among the Neanderthals.

Unsurprisingly, this has These rites have been incorporated in art as a trope, as a mark of character, and is OlderThanDirt, with funeral rites in art from ancient civilizations. '''Evil''' characters will "mourn" their dead via [[DishonoredDead violating proper treatment]] of a corpse by [[DesecratingTheDead mutilating]], [[OurZombiesAreDifferent reanimating]], or even [[ImAHumanitarian eating]] [[ScavengersAreScum the dead]], though Due to the Dead is one of the most common [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards villains maintain]]. '''Good''' characters will (rarely!) do the same to a dead CompleteMonster or the like, but usually are marked by their proper respect for the dead, down to even letting {{Revenge}} end when the villain is dead; if they have to destroy bodies to contain a plague, or display it to prove that he is really dead, they will often find it DirtyBusiness. Granting proper due can also be show of respect symbolic of a formerly-evil character's redemption; especially when RedemptionEqualsDeath.

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