History Main / EmptyBedroomGrieving

* In the last episode of ''Anime/TenchiUniverse''. After the group [[TheFellowshipHasEnded went their separate ways]], Tenchi looks in on the now-empty rooms of his house, taking it in about how much he truly missed the women in spite of how crazy they usually drove him.

* Subverted in the last episode of ''Anime/TenchiUniverse''. After the group [[TheFellowshipHasEnded went their separate ways]], Tenchi looks in on the now-empty rooms of his house, taking it in about how much he truly missed the women in spite of how crazy they usually drove him.

* In ''Anime/TheGirlInTwilight'', this turns out to be the true circumstances for Akane's brother's room. She was keeping it the exact same way it was when he mysteriously disappeared, half because she doesn't want to think about the possibility of anything worse happening to him and half because she wants it to be nice when he returns home. [[spoiler:Once she finally absorbs that he's ''never'' coming home and allows herself to properly grieve for him, she finally cleans out the room.]]

* ''Literature/{{Siren}}'': After Justine's drowning, her family keeps her room the way she left it. In the fall, her mom even puts away her summer clothes and sets out her winter clothes in her closet.

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* Early on in ''[[Film/Arthur1981 Arthur 2: On the Rocks]]'', it's revealed that Arthur has the bedroom kept as it was in honor of Hobson. [[spoiler:At the end, when Fairchild finally manages to display a sense of humor and plays a prank on Arthur, Arthur tells him to pack his things and vacate his quarters...so he can move into Hobson's room, symbolizing Arthur finding Fairchild a worthy successor to his dearest friend at last.]]

* In ''Film/TheGoodSon'', Susan keeps her toddler son Richard's room in the same condition and has photos of him on stands after he drowned in the bathtub. It is later revealed [[spoiler: his older brother Henry killed him in a fit of rage after finding out his parents gave him one of his old toys]].

* In ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', Norma Bates' room is kept in pristine condition, [[spoiler:despite it turning out that her son Norman ''murdered'' her several years before]].

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': One episode had a woman so devoted to her brother that she refused to let anyone into his room after his disappearance. The fact that [[spoiler:she keeps his mummified body on the bed]] might have something to do with it.

** Although Eleven [[spoiler:is not dead at the beginning of series two]], Mike keeps her BlanketFort in the basement exactly as she left it because it is never too late to hope for her return.

* {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/WhatRemainsOfEdithFinch''. The Finch family has for the longest time suffered from a [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane perceived]] family curse that has resulted in the premature and tragic deaths of every single family member. The matriarch of the family, Edith "Edie" Finch, has made a habit of preserving the bedrooms and heirlooms of her family from the day they die. She actually erected a memorial for her father Odin, who died getting his family to America to escape the curse, ''before they even built a house'' (the travel had destroyed their old one). This obsession with death, as well as being surrounded by constant reminders of the people they lost, [[SelfFulfillingProphecy directly and indirectly resulted in the deaths of some family members]], and eventually drove the last of Edie's family away. The game is following Edith Finch (Jr.) as she tries to document the full story of the family through the house in her journal, [[spoiler:which ironically becomes her own dying gift to her son]].

* Early on, Sophia in ''VideoGame/StardewValleyExpanded'', keeps the room of her parents who died in a tragic car accident, as it is. It's not until her 7 heart event, when she starts to get over her depression, that she goes through their stuff, organizing and cleaning their room with the help of the player character.

* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'' is about a group of teenage girl soccer players surviving the aftermath of a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness and the lives of those few who survived the full 19 months in the wilderness 25 years later. Team captain Jackie Taylor is not among these survivors. In "[[Recap/YellowjacketsS1E6Saints Saints]]," Jackie's best friend Shauna and her husband Jeff visit the Taylor family home for an annual birthday bunch that the Taylors hold in honor of Jackie's memory. At one point, Shauna visits Jackie's bedroom and a flashback shows both of them together in the bedroom as teens, the room looking exactly as it does in the present.

* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'' is about a group of teenage girl soccer players surviving the aftermath of a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness and the lives of those few who survived the full 19 months in the wilderness 25 years later. Team captain Jackie Taylor is not among these survivors. In "[[Recap/YellowjacketsS1E6Saints Saints]]," Jackie's best friend Shauna and her husband Jeff visit the Taylor family home for an annual birthday bunch that the Taylors hold in honor of Jackie's memory. At one point, Shauna visits Jackie's bedroom and a flashback shows both of them together int the bedroom as teens, the room looking exactly as it does in the present.

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* ''Webcomic/OfMiceAndMayhem'': After the Rangers pick up on clues that hint Gadget died, they opt to leave her room the way it was on the night they went out on their ill-fated mission.

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* Subverted in the last episode of ''Anime/TenchiUniverse''. After the group [[TheFellowshipHasEnded went their separate ways,]] Tenchi looks in on the now-empty rooms of his house, taking it in about how much he truly missed the women in spite of how crazy they usually drove him.

* ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017''. After discovering her backstory is FakeMemories, Major visits a woman who might actually be her mother, who keeps her 'deceased' daughter's room preserved. It contrasts with Major's own spartan apartment which lacks anything not required for her work or self-maintenance.

* One ''[[Literature/ChickenSoupForTheSoul Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul]]'' story had a girl who was abandoned by her mother due to [[ItsAllAboutMe her catering business being more important to her than her husband and two children.]] After she left, the girl went into her parents' room and specifically her mother's closet, and wrapped herself up in some of her left-behind clothing.

-->''You'll never step foot in my room again''
-->''You'll close it off, board it up''

* ''Radio/BleakExpectations:'' Played for very dark humour when the second series states that Pip Bin kept the room of his first wife, Flora Diesearly, ''exactly'' as it was the day she died... to the extent that Flora's corpse hasn't even been moved from the bed she died in (and by inference, neither has the body of her governess, who died in the room as well).

* In all the mainline games of the ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' series, a student's dorm is always permanently locked after they die. Checking the door to a student's room the chapter after they die causes the protagonist to make a comment regarding the student's fate.

* {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/WhatRemainsOfEdithFinch''. The Finch family has for the longest time suffered from a [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane perceived]] family curse that has resulted in the premature and tragic deaths of every single family member. The matriarch of the family, Edith "Edie" Finch, has made a habit of preserving the bedrooms and heirlooms of her family from the day they die. She actually erected a memorial for her father Odin, who died getting his family to America to escape the curse, ''before they even built a house'' (the travel had destroyed their old one). This obsession with death, as well as being surrounded by constant reminders of the people they lost, [[SelfFulfillingProphecy directly and indirectly resulted in the deaths of some family members]], and eventually drove the last of Edie's family away. The game is following Edith Finch (Jr.) as she tries to document the full story of the family through the house in her journal, [[spoiler:which ironically becomes her own dying gift to her son.]]

* Another ad for RSA Ireland's "Crashed Lives" featured an elderly woman going back in time while grieving her long-dead daughter, who died in a car crash due to her being distracted while driving. At one point, she is seen clutching a stuffed animal of hers and crying while lying in her abandoned bedroom.