Not to mention the response to Joe Pesci's "How am I funny?" scene in Goodfellas.

Tonight, on a very special episode of The Sopranos, Tony and his family confront their prejudices as a family of Cylons move next door.

Oh, and one more thing about lats night's Caprica. You know when what's-his-face and the other guy are running guns in the hearse and get stopped by the other mobsters? And it looked for a second like they might just crash into the other car and push it out of the way? I was thinking, "There's no way they're gonna even scratch that nice 1960 Cadillac hearse." It's like my mind does a little "how much is that car worth, vs. how big a budget do they have?" calculation for such scenes....

Oh, yeah, "find the old car, that one's going to get munched."

This is where my lack of knowledge of cars improves my ability to suspend disbelief.

12 great science fiction and fantasy stories that deal with death

Of course, The Body is in there:

Arguably the greatest television episode about death ever, the episode where Buffy's mom dies is stark and uncompromising in forcing us to face the loss Buffy is going through. I've had friends watch this episode to cope with the real-life deaths of their mothers or other loved ones. With no music playing in the episode, there's nothing to take you away from the reality of what's happened, and peripheral characters like Tara (who talks about the death of her own mother) and Anya (who doesn't know how to behave, or what it all means) help to illuminate the huge gaping hole in Buffy's life.

God. Even reading the fruit punch speech has me sobbing at my desk.

There have been a number of Doctor Who episodes that have made me cry. Like River's death in The Forest of the Dead or the tenth Doctor's death/regeneration (like when he says he's going to get his reward, which is to help his friends).

I don't know if I'm just more emotional these days, or if Doctor Who knows what buttons of mine to press....

That is an impressive list.

I'd add the SG-1 episode "Lifeboat" where Daniel is possessed by a dozen souls, including a little boy who has to be sacrificed to oblivion. I weep every single time.

Oh, oh! And while fictionalized, yet not at all fiction, the Matthew Broderick movie Project X highlights how cruel humans can be in the pursuit of death. Guts me so badly, I can only see it every few years, but can replay it in my mind, scene for scene in between viewings.

"It's always sudden."

Honestly, there's never been a real life death close to me since The Body where that phrase hasn't gone through my head.