Deaths are more poignant when young people are involved.
Accordingly Don's wife, Betty (January Jones), is a poignant figure: young, pretty, in awe of her handsome, successful husband and seemingly content to mind the house and the children.
Eric Rohmer, who will be 78 in March, has confected the best baguettes of all: a score of luminous, affectionate, often poignant studies of young or adolescent romance.
There's another dream, this one charged with poignant elation: a young girl, apparently seduced and abandoned by an emo-style rocker, imagines married bliss, sitting in her wedding dress while her beau plays his guitar.
In another poignant scene, the young Bosnian soldiers eat together in a bunker while the mortars fall around them, joking about what they will eat when the war ends.
But there is something particularly poignant about a young batsman at the height of his powers going off to join the army and breaking his arm in a gymnasium.
Perhaps one of the most poignant burials – a young mother and her baby from Vedbaek in Denmark, the child laid on a swan's wing – could have a number of interpretations (the child's spirit being carried downriver, up into the sky, or the wing simply forming a mark of respect or a convenient receptacle).
That tragedy becomes even more poignant when a young person takes his or her own life.
In one of the video's most poignant scenes, the young girl is seen looking at an OK! Magazine cover with mostly white celebrities.
A sparklingly funny and poignant study of a young maths prodigy struggling with her gift and a difficult family.
