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  2. End of Watch Call - Wikipedia

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    The End of Watch Call or Last Radio Call is a ceremony in which, after a police officer's death (usually in the line of duty but sometimes from illness), the officers from his or her unit or department gather around a police radio, over which the police dispatcher issues one call to the officer, followed by a silence, then a second call, followed by silence.

  3. Press F to pay respects - Wikipedia

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    According to Advanced Warfare level designer Steve Bianchi, this was a last-minute change: the original segment had the player hammer a pin into the coffin per Navy SEAL funeral rites, but the creative team had to change the scene after a military advisor objected to using a Navy SEAL tradition, as the character in question is a U.S. Marine. [2]

  4. Eulogy - Wikipedia

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    George W. Bush delivers the eulogy at Ronald Reagan's state funeral, June 2004. A eulogy (from εὐλογία, eulogia, Classical Greek, eu for "well" or "true", logia for "words" or "text", together for "praise") is a speech or writing in praise of a person, especially one who recently died or retired, or as a term of endearment.

  5. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    To commit suicide Euphemism: Take/took the easy way out [19] To commit suicide Euphemism: Based on the original meaning of the phrase of taking the path of least resistance. Take the last train to glory [2] To die Euphemism: An idiom Christian in origin. Tango Uniform [citation needed] Dead, irreversibly broken Military slang

  6. Funeral sermon - Wikipedia

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    In Spain, for example, the two were combined, the analytical and verbal style joined to humanist epideictic. [3] While the contemporary assumption may be that a funeral sermon contains a significant element of life writing on the subject, in the past the inclusion of life writing was in tension with religious messages.

  7. Military funeral - Wikipedia

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    See here: Indonesian Military Funeral Video Sample. During the funeral ceremony, the presiding officer of the ceremony reads a message of remembrance in the name of the government and people of Indonesia, as well as his/her chosen uniformed organization in which he/she served, preceded by a reading of the person's life and achievements, as well ...

  8. Memory Eternal - Wikipedia

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    "Memory Eternal" is chanted at the end of services on Saturdays of the Dead, though not for an individual, but for all of the faithful departed. "Memory Eternal" is intoned by the deacon and then chanted by all in response three times during the liturgy on the Sunday of Orthodoxy to commemorate church hierarchs, Orthodox monarchs, Orthodox patriarchs and clergy, and all deceased Orthodox ...

  9. Christian burial - Wikipedia

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    Monastic funeral service for Schema-Archmandrite Anastasi (Popov). Throughout the service, upon a table close to the coffin stands a dish containing kolyva, made of wheat—symbolic of the grain which falling to the ground dies and brings forth much fruit —and honey—symbolic of the sweetness of the Heavenly Kingdom. A taper is placed in the ...