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** [[spoiler: Auron]] only hung around after his death because he'd promised Jecht to take care of Tidus, and to make sure Yuna grew up somewhere peaceful and free of corruption.
** [[spoiler: Seymour]] is a dark(er) example, using his undeath as a way to continue pursuing his OmnicidalManiac goals. He definitely turns into a monster, it just so happens that he kinda already was one.

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** [[spoiler: Auron]] [[spoiler:Auron]] only hung around after his death because he'd promised Jecht to take care of Tidus, and to make sure Yuna grew up somewhere peaceful and free of corruption.
** [[spoiler: Seymour]] [[spoiler:Seymour]] is a dark(er) example, using his undeath as a way to continue pursuing his OmnicidalManiac goals. He definitely turns into a monster, it just so happens that he kinda already was one.


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* ''VideoGame/RuphandAnApothecarysAdventure'': The MonsterCompendium's notes on Wraiths says of Ghosts: "simply restless and have unfinished business".
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* ''Literature/TheGoldenHamsterSaga'': In ''The Haunting of Freddy'', the sixteenth-century poacher Grim Harry is barred from the afterlife because right before he was hanged, he vowed revenge on the baron who condemned him and his descendants. Centuries later, Freddy starts writing a story about the incident, which gives Grim Harry and his two ferrets an opening to return to Earth and terrorize the baron's descendants. [[spoiler:The baron was struck by lightning and killed minutes after Grim Harry was hanged. Once Freddy tells Grim Harry about it, Grim Harry disappears.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': Occasionally, the Ghostbusters don't actually have to zap the ghosts to bust them. By helping them accomplish their unfinished business, the Ghostbusters make the ghosts rest in peace, which works just as well as blasting them with the proton beams. This works best when the ghost is an undead person -- in other cases (spirits, demons, etc.), it's normally trickier.


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* ''WesternAnimation/RazzberryJazzberryJam'': Apparently this is what was keeping Herschel haunting the House Of Jam. We’re never explicitly told what exactly his business was, but he was finally able to pass on after performing in the Jazzberries’ masquerade ball, so presumably that was something he dreamed of but never got to do in life.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': Occasionally, the Ghostbusters don't actually have to zap the ghosts to bust them. By helping them accomplish their unfinished business, the Ghostbusters make the ghosts rest in peace, which works just as well as blasting them with the proton beams. This works best when the ghost is an undead person -- in other cases (spirits, demons, etc.), it's normally trickier.
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* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' has these for the Dark Signers: Carly to avenge her death at the hands of Sayer/Divine, Misty to get revenge for her younger brother, Kalin to get revenge on Yusei for letting him be arrested when he went off the deep end, Bommer/Grieger for revenge on Rex Goodwin (Though he was alive at first), Roman Goodwin to orchestrate the other Dark Signers, and Rex to pull a YinYangBomb with Roman's old Signer Mark.

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* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' has these for the Dark Signers: Carly to avenge her death at the hands of Sayer/Divine, Sayer/Divine (as well as reuniting with Jack), Misty to get revenge for her younger brother, Kalin to get revenge on Yusei for letting him be arrested when he went off the deep end, Bommer/Grieger for revenge on Rex Goodwin (Though he was alive at first), Roman Goodwin to orchestrate the other Dark Signers, and Rex to pull a YinYangBomb with Roman's old Signer Mark.
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* Subverted in ''Fanfic/TheRigelBlackChronicles'' when Harry suggests to Moaning Myrtle that perhaps her murderer can finally be identified and she can have peace. Myrtle rolls her eyes and informs Harry that she's not hanging around due to anything like that.
--> '''Myrtle''': I mean, sheesh, could you be any more clichéd?
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* ''Fanfic/ThePeaceNotPromised'': Severus is offered the chance to go back to his teen years and try again, because "your regrets chain you to the living". He can't find peace in the afterlife, even though it's available to him, because he can't let go of his mistakes.
---> '''Severus:''' Was death not supposed to take that from me?\\
'''Dumbledore:''' If death was all it took to wash away regrets, then ghosts would not exist.

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