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And he noticed that for weddings and funerals there they could find enough money to put something together.
And we even text at funerals.
And in the meantime, New York and Nashville can churn out the hits that come through our radios, define our generations and soundtrack our weddings and our funerals and everything in between.
In Tana Toraja, the most important social moments in people's lives, the focal points of social and cultural interaction are not weddings or births or even family dinners, but funerals.
So at funerals, relationships are reconfirmed but also transformed in a ritual drama that highlights the most salient feature about death in this place: its impact on life and the relationships of the living.
And migrants also send money, perhaps far too many times, for unexpected funerals that they cannot attend.
And I was doing funerals, but not of the venerated matriarchs and patriarchs who'd lived a long life and there's a lot to say.
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.
Native American leaders become undertakers, planning funerals for dead relatives they had never wanted unearthed.
People visited cemeteries for funerals, but also for anniversaries, holidays, or simply an afternoon outdoors.
They've had funerals for them with gun salutes.
Now, we no longer refer to African-Americans as "colored," but this long-standing joke about our perpetual lateness to church, to cookouts, to family events and even to our own funerals, remains.
From baseball games to military funerals, we trekked across the country with neon protest signs in hand to tell others exactly how "unclean" they were and exactly why they were headed for damnation.
PA: Yeah, we realized many of our artist and organizer friends were also lost in these cycles of sadness, and we were in movements that often found themselves at funerals.
For my aunt, my grandfather, my father, we always held two funerals: one for their bodies, but, years before that, one for their dreams.
In South Africa, it's funerals.
People spend up to a year or two years of income on funerals.
And having been through literally hundreds if not thousands of funerals, it makes a difference.
I've been to 10 funerals in the last year, one of which I helped arrange.
Full of clichés, unrealistic moments: punching the air in celebration after putting a fire out, never mind that someone's lost their home and possessions!!, announcing a pregnancy in a bar along with all your mates before telling you in private first, walking on the roof of a burning building for no apparent reason, the stereotypical funerals and strained relationships, the very dodgy, cheesy music at the end, the unrealistic treatment of the girl who was rescued from her apartment, the very unrealistic explosion from that same apartment!! Did they have a couple of oxygen tanks in the attic or something!!? Anyone with an ounce of wit can see that this movie was a joke.
Because he didn't like attending funerals.
Always sporting a smile on its face, it seems like a paradox that there could be so much comedy to be taken from a movie that could be called "Four Funerals and One Wedding", but you'll understand when you see it.
Meanwhile, an American mortician (Christopher Walken) who "wants to put the 'fun' back in funerals" moves into this small Welsh community with his assistant (Lee Evans) and wants to give Boris a run for his money with flashy, themed funerals.
Walken is brilliant as he always is in the role of the eccentric Mortician who arranges funerals that are quite unorthodox.
A movie which deals with death and funerals without being depressing, or irreverant.
Bill made a joke about how Pro-Life people should picket funerals, and Letterman had Pro-life advertising.
The showbiz ideas used by Christopher Walken's character to liven up his funerals are genuinely laugh out loud moments.
Watch it for a view of what funerals probably should be--a celebration of life!
His wife supports this idea when she observes, "Fanda laughs at funerals and death."
As a "lapsed Catholic" who had 11 years of Catholic school, but hasn't been to Mass in 35 years except for weddings and funerals, I thought I'd get a kick out of this.
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