Endings — deaths, closures, and 'end of an era' moments — are elevated into cultural events through tributes and remembrance rather than mourned quietly. Athlete-death roundups, artist obituaries (Alan Saret, Paula Kamps), the deaths of Lo Ming-chu and Yoshihiro Nishimura, farewell and 'last king' tours, and 'flop era'/end-of-an-era framing all turn disappearance into a permanent cultural reference — the temporary ending consecrated precisely because it cannot be renewed.