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Even slicing up the body usually regarded as mutilation and proof of evil has been done in Real Life as a means to free the soul from the body and has featured so in fiction. Cremation and burial are the most common, but such practices as exposing the dead to vultures and other unusual methods can be done in fiction as in life. Granting proper due can also be show of respect symbolic of a formerly-evil character's redemption especially when Redemption Equals Death.Įven when you put The "Fun" in "Funeral", the humor tends to be dark and the characters nasty.Ī wide variety of practices are possible, as in Real Life. Good characters will (rarely!) do the same to a dead Complete Monster 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 Dirty Business. Evil characters will violate proper treatment of a corpse by mutilating, reanimating, or even eating the dead, though Due to the Dead is one of the most common standards villains maintain. Unsurprisingly, this has been incorporated in art as a trope, as a mark of character, and is Older Than Dirt, with funeral rites in art from ancient civilizations.
Indeed, since burials leave archeological evidence, we know that they occurred as many as 300,000 years ago, as a practice among the Neanderthals. One mark that distinguishes humans from nonhumans is that humans have funeral rites they regard something as due to the dead and have for a long time.
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