When they die on the wrong side of the barrier - which is the vast majority of the time, since it means a death in battle - a magical girl does not even leave behind a body.

And often, neither does she leave behind friends or family. It was some time before Tomoe Mami was even noted as a missing person.

"There are many people without even such a resting place as this," Homura said, somewhat cryptically. It was, if she had thought about it in such terms, a fairly horrible thing to say. She did not think about it in such terms. It was reality.