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| |aka = | | [[Tula Chenka]] paid for a state-of-the-art '''headstone''' for [[Kal Chenka|her father]] after his [[death]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Robots of Life (audio story)|The Robots of Life]]'') |
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| '''Tombstones''', or '''gravestones''', were markers, typically made of [[stone]], that gave vital statistics for the deceased and indicated the spot where they were [[burial|buried]]. Sometimes, they were inscribed with [[epitaph]]s, short texts which commemorated the life — or death — of the individual. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Emissary of the Daleks (audio story)|Emissary of the Daleks]]'') [[The Doctor]] and their [[companion]]s encountered many tombstones, typically found in [[graveyard]]s.
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| [[Lysette Barclay]] once explained the purpose of some [[Stockbridge]] tombstones to the [[Lucerian]] scientist, [[Professor]] [[Rinxo Jabbery]]: "They mark the final resting places of the dead. They provide a focus for mourning and remembrance." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Plague of the Daleks (audio story)|Plague of the Daleks]]'')
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| According to the [[Eleventh Doctor]], it was only a matter of time before a [[time-travel]]ler came across his or her tombstone. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'') After finding what appeared to be a monument to himself in the [[Garden of Fond Memories]] on [[Necros]], the [[Sixth Doctor]] explained to [[Peri Brown]], "Look at it this way. If I were to take you back to [[Earth]] after you had died, it would be possible for you to see your own gravestone." ([[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]'')
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| [[Ben Jackson|Ben]] and [[Polly Wright|Polly]] once made a game of finding the oldest tombstone in a [[17th century]] [[Cornwall|Cornish]] graveyard, only to discover that the inscriptions on some of the stones were in fact clues to how to find [[Avery's gold]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Smugglers (TV story)|The Smugglers]]'') The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] encountered the tombstone of [[Joseph Sundvik]] in [[1943]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'') [[Clara Oswald]] once explored a graveyard containing a tombstone belonging to [[Clara Oswin Oswald|a different version of herself]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'') [[Julia Hardwick]] found a gravestone for a woman named Julia Baker who was born in 1987 and died in 1949. ([[WC]]: ''[[A Ghost Story for Christmas]]'')
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| In an alternative timeline where the [[Eleventh Doctor]] died during the [[Siege of Trenzalore]], his timestream was extracted and placed inside his tombstone — which in reality was his [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] — that has grown huge in size due to a "size leak" that caused the interior dimensions to leak to the outside. According to The [[Great Intelligence]], the tomb could only be opened by uttering the Doctor's real name. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')
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