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Burial in Space

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Burial in Space	comment	Because Space Is an Ocean, you need some equivalent of Burial at Sea. And because you can't really throw a dead body over the "side" of a space ship, some more dramatic means of getting the body out of the ship is required. Usually the deceased is placed in a "space coffin". In some cases the coffin is actually a torpedo, which is shot out of the ship's torpedo tubes. It may even explode, indicating that not only is it a torpedo but that it is actually armed. In less drastic examples, the coffin is taken out through the airlocks by mourners in space suits and allowed to simply drift off into space. Alternatively, you could Hurl It into the Sun - cremation by star is not that bad of a funeral. As a Death Trope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.
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Burial in Space / int_14f2c680	comment	In The Truce at Bakura, Dev Sibwarra's shrouded body is ejected from the Millennium Falcon's airlock in orbit above Bakura, and allowed to burn away in the upper atmosphere.
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Burial in Space / int_1af5d573	comment	In Contact eccentric billionaire Hadden, a man so rich he can afford to permanently inhabit the Space Station in order to slightly improve his resistance to a terminal disease, finally has his body launched into space. Unlike typical space burials, his entire, preserved body is sent out, where in the low heat of outer space it can potentially last millions of years until it inevitably hits something, and holds an infinitesimal chance of being found and resurrected by advanced aliens, all so that he can make a last grab at immortality.
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Burial in Space / int_1c34acd2	comment	Rocketship Voyager. For pragmatic reasons Disposing of a Body is done separately from the funeral rites; Captain Janeway has to be reminded that they have bodies to 'bury', as the funeral took place over a week ago. The bodies of those killed are fastened outside the hull (to avoid decomposing gasses) until it's time to fire up the torchship, whereupon they're cremated by the exhaust plume (it's not pragmatic to Hurl It into the Sun when the sun could be billions of miles away) or recycled as reaction mass. When one body breaks free before it can be cremated, the Chief Engineer hushes it up rather than admit the corpse is adrift in space.
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Burial in Space / int_1d3bb251	comment	In the Chzo Mythos, one of the astronauts mentions that it was popular in the 21st century for people to send their remains into space. Too bad the Space Coffin they stumble across contains the remains of John Defoe.
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Burial in Space / int_22c1d1c1	comment	In Enemy Mine, the casualties from the Drac War are so numerous that the coffins are constantly being loaded into the airlock by an automatic conveyor belt, stopping just long enough for the bored technicians on duty to check the deceased's religion and play the appropriate prerecorded last rites.
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Burial in Space / int_231df7d2	comment	In V (1983), one of the female villains ends up sharing a space coffin with the man she arranged to have killed. Only she isn't yet dead when they launch it into space.
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Burial in Space / int_247422c7	comment	In the Honorverse, Grayson Armsmen are traditionally buried where they fall. When one of her armsmen dies aboard ship (in At All Costs), they eject him into space.
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Burial in Space / int_29a5124d	comment	In a twist, Sunless Skies has the poor of London having to resort to their coffins just being dumped out in space to float forever in whole fields of glassy debris called Bully's Acres. Those with better means actually get buried in a particular bit of floating terrain turned into a graveyard.
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Burial in Space / int_2b6c0401	comment	Alien: Covenant. After Captain Branson dies in an accident, the new captain orders that repairs must take priority over ceremonies for the dead. In defiance of his orders, several crewmembers perform a Libation for the Dead before ejecting Branson's body out the airlock.
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Burial in Space / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League Unlimited. After Wonder Woman stops the Legion of Doom from stealing the Viking Prince's body, she gives him a Viking Funeral... IN SPACE! This has the very practical goal of either having the sun's fusion destroy the body, or at least keep the Legion from another attempt.
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Burial in Space / int_305faa76	comment	A couple strips into Spacetrawler Nogg stated that Martina's body was hurled into a star, the rest of the series is Nogg telling her father the story of how she came to deserve such an honor.
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Burial in Space / int_353b7af3	comment	The Star Trek: Discovery episode "The Vulcan Hello" shows a fallen Klingon warrior receiving this from his comrades. Instead of being shot into space like a torpedo, however, his coffin comes to rest on the hull of the warship Sarcophagus.
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Burial in Space / int_35ada324	comment	Alien: Kane's body in Alien is jettisoned into space after the Alien bursts out of his chest. Traumatised after his unexpected death, the crew can find no last words to say about their shipmate. Rather than a stately drift into space, the body is shot rapidly from the airlock. Alien: Covenant. After Captain Branson dies in an accident, the new captain orders that repairs must take priority over ceremonies for the dead. In defiance of his orders, several crewmembers perform a Libation for the Dead before ejecting Branson's body out the airlock.
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Burial in Space / int_3c65a1d1	comment	Crest of the Stars has a planet that sends their dead into space on rockets. The protagonists manage to escape said planet by hiding in a coffin. Abh also bury their dead in space.
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Burial in Space / int_405243c7	comment	In The 100, the deceased from The Ark are flushed out into space, but with the odd twist that they're meant to fall back to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere, as a way of returning them to their ancestral home.
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Burial in Space / int_44c7750f	comment	The Ark (2023) has this be suggested for the dead from the oxygen crisis the Ark 1 starship experiences early in the first season. Subverted when Angus convinces enough of the survivors that composting the bodies to make fertilizer for the plants they need to grow to live is a better option.
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Burial in Space / int_45854dfc	comment	Dizzy Flores in the Starship Troopers film has her coffin sent out to slowly drift into the cosmos after dying during the Outpost 29 battle.
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Burial in Space / int_48cf61a6	comment	An episode of The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians saw Superman receive a space-burial after deadly exposure to Kryptonite.
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Burial in Space / int_4a6ef2c5	comment	Space Battleship Yamato There are at least two space funerals held after major battles, both to some degree censored in Star Blazers. Long lines of space coffins are set to drift in space, presumably forever. The funeral in the third season is actually said to be a funeral for dead enemies, rather than crewmembers. Whether this is a case of Bowdlerization or Woolseyism is an open question, since on the one hand giving your enemies an honorable burial is a, well, really honorable thing to do. On the other hand.. they obviously just didn't want to have to talk about named characters dying that early in the season. Also, you can briefly see the characters through the windows in their coffins so I don't see how they were planning to fool anybody. The remake splits the difference, with a short scene in which three enemy personnel from a Boarding Party who were killed in action aboard the Yamato are honourably buried according to proper custom at the same time as the ship's own dead. It fits the theme of Gamilon's people being not that different, and their military commanders being Worthy Opponents.
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Burial in Space / int_56dce3c1	comment	Yondu at the end of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, after sacrificing himself to save Peter, receives a form of cremation that sweeps his multi-colored ashes/embers out into space. To the surprise of the Guardians the rest of the Ravagers come to celebrate his life with space fireworks.
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Burial in Space / int_5b31bf	comment	Allegiance has a mortally wounded spacer named Tannis ask Mara Jade to "bury him in space". She does.
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Burial in Space / int_5bb406f8	comment	In The Expanse, it's a tradition in the Martian Congressional Republic Navy to bury fallen soldiers in coffins ejected into space; even if there's no body left behind they will eject just the coffin. The Belters, living their whole lives in artfificial habitats where no resource is taken for granted, instead decompose the corpses into crucial resources. Some of them find the idea of continuing one's existence as a part of space station's ecosystem romantic.
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Burial in Space / int_5bfa9c98	comment	The Warframe quest "Call of the Tempestarii" ends with the dead Sevagoth, locked in a lifepod and finally reunited with his shadow, being launched from the Railjack in orbit above Earth.
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Burial in Space / int_5c897f4a	comment	A number of funerals in Schlock Mercenary involve "coffinpedoes". At one point a bounty hunter has to retrieve the corpse of one of his bounties from space.
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Burial in Space / int_5d354f8	comment	Red Dwarf: In the first episode, George MacIntyre's remains get shot into space and Lister does it with the rest of the crew in a Deleted Scene. In "Stoke Me A Clipper" when the "prime" Rimmer takes up the torch of the dimension-hopping space hero "Ace Rimmer" he and Lister place the previous Ace's holo-bee in a small capsule and shoot it into a planetary ring composed of similar holo-bee coffins.
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Burial in Space / int_5f217050	comment	X-Wing and Tie Fighter have one when the player character is killed.
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Burial in Space / int_6234eae7	comment	Mobile Suit Victory Gundam: After Oliver Inoue dies charging into an enemy ship, his cremated remains are handed out at his funeral and spread into space. For the sake of visibility the ashes are animated as glowing gold. More strangely, they look like they're scattered in the wind, despite being in a vacuum.
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Burial in Space / int_7129b6f9	comment	The traditional Jorenian funeral in S. L. Viehl's Stardoc series consists of this. The Jorenians normally attempt to put their dead on a course that would result in cremation by star or by atmospheric reentry, but it doesn't always work out as planned (as the events of Plague of Memory can attest).
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Burial in Space / int_7a4a668c	comment	The Captain Harlock movie Arcadia of My Youth ends with a space burial of Zoll, his sister Mira, and the Earth's La RÃ©sistance leader (who is also Harlock's Old Flame) Maya aboard Arcadia, with all of the surviving good guys in attendance. Maya's burial in particular symbolizes the severing of Harlock's last tether to his old life, completing his transformation into the Space Pirate that he becomes best known as.
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Burial in Space / int_7f5e00d9	comment	In Halo: The Fall of Reach, the bodies of the Spartans that "washed out" (read: died) of the augmentation process are launched out of the torpedo tubes of a ship, accompanied by an appropriate military funeral procession.
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Burial in Space / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam Mobile Suit Gundam has the burial of Paolo Cassius, the original captain of the White Base... with the capsule actually exploding after moving a safe distance away from the ship. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam: After Oliver Inoue dies charging into an enemy ship, his cremated remains are handed out at his funeral and spread into space. For the sake of visibility the ashes are animated as glowing gold. More strangely, they look like they're scattered in the wind, despite being in a vacuum. Gundam SEED Destiny: After Lacus's Body Double Meer Campbell pulls a Heroic Sacrifice for Lacus, her body is first retrieved by the group (with Athrun carrying her in his arms and dressed in a white gown). Then Meer's body is placed in a space capsule full of white flowers, and after Lacus tearfully says goodbye, the capsule is shot into space.
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Burial in Space / int_97160d12	comment	In Planetes, astronauts at one point occasionally chose to be buried in a space coffin, but the practice has been banned by the time the show is set. One episode deals with the consequences of debris section finding such a coffin.
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Burial in Space / int_988629da	comment	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is the Trope Codifier, although from this list it is not the oldest. After Spock's Heroic Sacrifice to get the warp core back online, his body is fired from the torpedo bay over the Genesis Planet. The coffin/torpedo/giant sunglasses case was actually fired at a planet; also a major part of the set-up for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock note The movie's novelization states that Kirk had intended for Spock's body to be cremated during re-entry. The novelization of "The Search For Spock" revealed that somehow Sarek knew that Kirk's attempt to cremate his son did not work as planned.
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Burial in Space / int_98a0a468	comment	In The Black Hole one of the main characters notices a group of Reinhardt's androids performing one of these for one of their own, shooting the coffin of their fallen into the black hole. This is one of the clues building up to The Reveal that the "androids" are actually the ship's personnel Reinhardt turned into cybernetic slaves through Unwilling Roboticisation in response to their attempted mutiny.
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Burial in Space / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Wolff, in the Tintin adventure Explorers on the Moon, buries himself in space to save the rest of the expedition.
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Burial in Space / int_a4bc7eed	comment	Universal War One: John Baltimore ('Balti')is buried in space.
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Burial in Space / int_aacd24cb	comment	StarCraft: Vice Admiral Stukov was given one of these at the end of the Brood War Terran campaign, with the UED newsreel depicting his coffin being shot into space from the Aleksander. His coffin eventually ended up in the hands of a Zerg cerebrate, who brought him back to life and setting off the chain of events that led to his reappearance in StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm.
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Burial in Space / int_aedc983a	comment	Wing Commander: Almost any pilot (including the player) that dies gets one of these, complete with 21 gun salute as the funeral crew sends the coffin flying into space. In the first game, if it's a wingman that dies Blair vows to avenge the dead pilot... even if he is the reason they died, in an Unfriendly Fire situation.
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Burial in Space / int_b3788a5d	comment	In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dave Bowman releases Frank Poole's body into space mainly because he needs both of the space pod's arms to open the emergency airlock. (In the novel, after deactivating HAL he does the same with the men killed in hibernation. In the 3001 novel, Frank gets better).
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Burial in Space / int_b41d50cb	comment	In Asimov's short story C-Chute, the eponymous item is a euphemism for "casualty chute", which itself is a euphemism for/abbreviation of "chute used to eject coffins into space". The protagonist uses one to exit from the ship, because the part in which he and the other humans are imprisoned doesn't include any of the airlocks. To avoid alerting the aliens who have captured the ship, and thereby recapture it, he re-enters by an equally unconventional route.
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Burial in Space / int_b9a0d78d	comment	Kane's body in Alien is jettisoned into space after the Alien bursts out of his chest. Traumatised after his unexpected death, the crew can find no last words to say about their shipmate. Rather than a stately drift into space, the body is shot rapidly from the airlock.
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Burial in Space / int_c007e9c8	comment	Space: Above and Beyond sees navy-style funeral services conducted aboard the Saratoga, complete with the coffin (a cylindrical capsule) being ejected into space. Interestingly, in keeping with the show's wholesale borrowing of real life military terminology and traditions, this is referred to as burial "at space," rather than "in space," echoing "burial at sea".
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Burial in Space / int_c09581e4	comment	The remake splits the difference, with a short scene in which three enemy personnel from a Boarding Party who were killed in action aboard the Yamato are honourably buried according to proper custom at the same time as the ship's own dead. It fits the theme of Gamilon's people being not that different, and their military commanders being Worthy Opponents.
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Burial in Space / int_c832776	comment	Gundam SEED Destiny: After Lacus's Body Double Meer Campbell pulls a Heroic Sacrifice for Lacus, her body is first retrieved by the group (with Athrun carrying her in his arms and dressed in a white gown). Then Meer's body is placed in a space capsule full of white flowers, and after Lacus tearfully says goodbye, the capsule is shot into space.
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Burial in Space / int_c95a117f	comment	In Outland, Marshal O'Niel wants to know where the bodies of the miners who've died after going crazy have gone. He's told they're taken away on the shuttle and Thrown Out the Airlock halfway to the space station. "Burial at sea, and all that". Of course, this is a useful way of ensuring there are no bodies around to autopsy.
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Burial in Space / int_c9caedf5	comment	Conquest of Space (1955). Because his decomposing body would poison the air, a deceased crewman is secured outside the spaceship. Realising the sight of his body drifting outside the viewport is affecting morale, the captain pushes the body off into space after a moving eulogy.
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Burial in Space / int_d461a59f	comment	Battlestar Galactica (1978) also did it a number of times. One instance occurred in the episode "Take the Celestra", where an elderly captain had made a Heroic Sacrifice during the attempt to retake the titular factory ship from mutineers.
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Burial in Space / int_d461f757	comment	In Battlestar Galactica (2003), there are several funerals after which the bodies are ejected into space from a Viper launch tube. The ashes of the "fake" Hera were scattered into space from the open door of a Raptor. In the final episode, the whole Fleet, along with Sam, gets flown into Sol. In the webisode "The Face of the Enemy", a dead body has to be ejected from a stranded shuttle because of the decomposition issue.
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Burial in Space / int_d64bff49	comment	The 7th issue of the Eleventh Doctor comic book series from Doctor Who (Titan) features the eternal dogfight, an eternal war between two species that is constantly moving throughout the universe. One page shows a long line of coffins floating away from the space station into the local sun.
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Burial in Space / int_d78e771e	comment	The Mote in God's Eye. The bodies of the Marines who died evacuating the battlecruiser MacArthur were shot out into space from Lenin's torpedo tubes. They were then vaporized by blasts from Lenin's weapons, so the Moties couldn't retrieve the bodies and study them.
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Burial in Space / int_df890a88	comment	One document found in Rodina mentions the crew of the eponymous Generation Ship cremating their dead comrades in the ship's exhaust.
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Burial in Space / int_e235270c	comment	In Stellaris, your Science Ships might stumble upon a space coffin as an anomaly and find a long-dead alien species inside. You can choose to either examine the body and coffin for a set amount of research points in all three research fields (physics, society, and engineering) or send it on its way to gain a higher number of just society research points. There's a chance that you might make First Contact with said alien species later, in which case they will not be happy about you desecrating their dead like that.
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Burial in Space / int_e6267766	comment	Happens in various ways in the Star Wars Legends, mostly the X-Wing Series. Corran's father's ashes were left to drift in space between Corellia and Selonia, apparently not in a container. While dating the daughter of his father's mortal enemy, he once jokes that his father's ashes were trying to coalesce to stop him. The drifting coffins variety seems to be the most popular when a pilot's body can be recovered, appearing in several Meaningful Funerals. They're often tractored out into space and nudged towards the star. When a body can't be recovered, as happened to Jesmin Ackbar, a torpedo is used as a symbolic stand-in. Allegiance has a mortally wounded spacer named Tannis ask Mara Jade to "bury him in space". She does. In a variation, Alderaanians mostly have their space coffins shot into "the Graveyard," the shattered remnants of their destroyed planet. In The Truce at Bakura, Dev Sibwarra's shrouded body is ejected from the Millennium Falcon's airlock in orbit above Bakura, and allowed to burn away in the upper atmosphere.
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Burial in Space / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: In "Latent Image", a photon torpedo casing is fired into a sun, bearing the body of dead ensign Jetal. In "One Small Step...", the crew has a funeral with full honors for an early space explorer whose body they discovered.
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Burial in Space / int_f4be4bdc	comment	In Starman Jones, after Dr. Hendrix dies his body is set adrift in space, to wander the stars forever.
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Burial in Space / int_f4e06c40	comment	In Avenue 5, several casualties of the accident that sent the giant space liner Avenue 5 off-course are sent out an airlock in coffins. Unfortunately, the ship is massive enough and the coffins are launched so poorly that they wind up orbiting the vessel for the remainder of the series.
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Burial in Space / int_f74b5f80	comment	Done a couple of times on Babylon 5: In the episode "Ceremonies of Light and Dark", those crew who died in the previous episode's battle were given a mass funeral, with a whole line of space coffins being shot at the star Epsilon Eridani, escorted part of the way by a formation of Starfury space fighters (with one fighter peeling off as part of a "Missing Man" formation). Worth noting, Commander Ivanova appeared to have used her Photographic Memory to memorize the list of names to be read at the memorial, rather than reading from notes. In "Interludes and Examinations", when Kosh dies, his encounter suit is placed in his Vorlon transport, and it flies itself into the star for an alien version of this trope.
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Burial in Space / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Schizoid Man", Dr. Ira Graves' casket is beamed into space, per his last wishes.
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