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And I think, with a death, you have a funeral, you celebrate the life, and there's a lot of community support, and it's something women don't have with miscarriage.
When was the last time you saw a selfie at a funeral?
Against my doctors' and family's wishes, I needed to go back for the funeral.
Then in the same week, at a funeral, we sang the familiar hymn "We Plow the Fields and Scatter," a very English hymn.
That splendid music, the coming-in music, "The Elephant March" from "Aida," is the music I've chosen for my funeral.
And I was like, "Get dressed for a funeral.
And you in essence have a funeral that you get to be present for.
I thought, "What's my mother's face going to look like on the day of my funeral?"
But our current funeral practices make the situation much worse.
And in a traditional American funeral, a dead body is covered with fillers and cosmetics to make it look alive.
He insisted, no embalming, no open coffin, no funeral.
I wrote this after a friend's funeral, but not so much about the friend as something the eulogist kept saying, as all eulogists tend to do, which is how happy the deceased would be to look down and see all of us assembled.
And that to me was a bad start to the afterlife, having to witness your own funeral and feel gratified.
If I had to go to a funeral, though, I would dress in B minor, which would be turquoise, purple and orange.
Pete's funeral was in July.
And when my mama died two years ago at 92, there were so many former students at her funeral, it brought tears to my eyes, not because she was gone, but because she left a legacy of relationships that could never disappear.
Lasting anywhere from a few days to a few weeks, funeral ceremonies are a raucous affair, where commemorating someone who's died is not so much a private sadness but more of a publicly shared transition.
In fact, a member of society is only truly dead when the extended family can agree upon and marshal the resources necessary to hold a funeral ceremony that is considered appropriate in terms of resources for the status of the deceased.
Until the funeral ceremony, which can be held years after a person's physical death, the deceased is referred to as "to makala," a sick person, or "to mama," a person who is asleep, and they continue to be a member of the household.
And here you can see these wooden effigies of the ancestors, so these are people who have already been buried, already had a funeral ceremony.
So the funeral ceremony itself embodies this relational perspective on death.
His funeral songs will sing them a song about themselves.
I felt that funeral in my brain, and I sat next to the colossus at the edge of the world, and I have discovered something inside of myself that I would have to call a soul that I had never formulated until that day 20 years ago when hell came to pay me a surprise visit.
As I witnessed my father's body being swallowed by fire, I sat by his funeral pyre and wrote.
From the Tana Toraja funeral ritual in Indonesia to an Easter ceremony in the north of Ethiopia.
For example, I can remember something like this happening at my father's funeral.
I was doing funerals of 18-year-olds, 17-year-olds, and 16-year-olds, and I was standing in a church or at a funeral home struggling to say something that would make some meaningful impact.
And at her funeral, the head of Army Special Operations came, and gave a public testimony not just to the courage of Ashley White, but to all her team of sisters.
He's still waiting for his funeral in Norway, and none of his family will be able to attend.
The government has all this regulation and bureaucracy around things like burying a death, for example, and there's people like funeral directors who devote their entire working lives to this issue.
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