Funerary practices in different cultures A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with...
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Look up funeral in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A funeral is a ceremony marking a person's death. Funeral may also refer to: The Funeral (1984 film)...
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state funeral is a public funeral ceremony, observing the strict rules of protocol, held to honour people of national significance. State funerals usually...
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A funeral director, also known as an undertaker or mortician (American English), is a professional who has licences in funeral arranging and embalming...
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Death at a Funeral may refer to: Death at a Funeral (2007 film), a British comedy film Death at a Funeral (2010 film), an American remake of the 2007 film...
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A funeral home, funeral parlor or mortuary, is a business that provides burial and funeral services for the dead and their families. These services may...
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Funeral games are athletic competitions held in honor of a recently deceased person. The celebration of funeral games was common to a number of ancient...
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Funerals and funeral prayers in Islam (Arabic: جنازة, romanized: Janāzah) follow fairly specific rites, though they are subject to regional interpretation...
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A living funeral, also called a pre-funeral, is a funeral held for a living person. It may be important to the person's psychological state and also that...
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Old Funeral was a black/death metal band from Bergen, Norway. Old Funeral was one of the first bands to form in the Norwegian extreme metal scene, formed...
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In some masonic jurisdictions, a masonic funeral is a rite afforded to Master Masons in good standing with their Lodges. Under extenuating circumstances...
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Dark Funeral is a Swedish black metal band from Stockholm, founded by guitarists Blackmoon and Lord Ahriman in 1993. They emerged during the second wave...
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Funeral strippers are exotic dancers, usually young women, who sing and dance and remove clothes at a funeral or in a procession to a funeral as a way...
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Funeral in Berlin is a 1964 spy novel by Len Deighton set between Saturday 5 October and Sunday 10 November 1963. It was the third of Deighton's novels...
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Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It is the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis...
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Pelé (redirect from Death and funeral of Pelé)
funeral". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 3 January 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2022. Church, Ben; Rocha, Camilo (3 January 2022). "Funeral...
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Hearse (redirect from Funeral coach)
called funeral cars or funeral coaches. The name is derived, through the French herse, from the Latin herpex, which means a harrow. The funeral hearse...
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Funeral potatoes (also great potatoes, cheesy potatoes, hash brown casserole, cheesy hash browns, those potatoes, or party potatoes) is a traditional...
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Space Funeral is an independently created role-playing video game and art game by Irish developer thecatamites, Stephen Gillmurphy. The short game was...
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Mental Funeral is the second album by Autopsy, released in 1991 by Peaceville Records. All music by Autopsy. Lyrics by Chris Reifert – except track 5...
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The majority of funerals (葬儀, sōgi or 葬式, sōshiki) in Japan include a wake, the cremation of the deceased, a burial in a family grave, and a periodic memorial...
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Funeral cosmetology, also known as mortuary makeup or restorative arts, sometimes known by the older name desairology, are activities related to the practice...
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"Funeral Pyre" is The Jam's thirteenth single released on 29 May 1981. Backed by the B-side "Disguises", a cover of a Who track, it reached No. 4 in the...
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Silvio Santos (redirect from Death and funeral of Silvio Santos)
Silvio Santos, stage name of Senor Abravanel (Hebrew: סניור אברבנאל; 12 December 1930 – 17 August 2024), was a Brazilian television presenter and businessman...
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After the Funeral is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1953 under the title...
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Norse funerals, or the burial customs of Viking Age North Germanic Norsemen (early medieval Scandinavians), are known both from archaeology and from historical...
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mortcloth or casket saddle) is a cloth that covers a casket or coffin at funerals. The word comes from the Latin pallium (cloak), through Old English. A...
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His seven-day state funeral followed. After Reagan's death, his body was taken from his Bel Air home to the Kingsley and Gates Funeral Home in Santa Monica...
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For Funerals to Come... is the second EP by Swedish heavy metal band Katatonia, released in 1995. It was re-released on vinyl together with Brave Murder...
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The state funeral of U.S. President John F. Kennedy took place in Washington, D.C., during the three days that followed his assassination on Friday, November...
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