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Vajtim and Gjëmë (Gjâmë in the Gheg Albanian) is the dirge or lamentation of the dead in the Albanian custom by a group of men for the gjëmë and a woman or a group of women for the vajtim.
[2] [1] A traditional funeral service consists of a viewing (sometimes referred to as a visitation), a funeral service in a place of worship or the funeral home chapel and a graveside committal service. Direct cremation consists of the funeral home receiving the body, preparing it for the crematory and filing the necessary legal paperwork ...
العربية; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Чӑвашла; Čeština; Cymraeg; Español; Esperanto; Euskara
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A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. [1] Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.
A Home funeral is when a funeral occurs at a person's home, as opposed to a funeral home. Though rare since the advent of funeral homes, they were once common events, since washing and laying out the body often took place at home, as well as the viewing, the wake and the burial in the family plot. Some are now preferring to do this themselves ...
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The Saffell Funeral Home, located at 4th and Clay Streets in Shelbyville, Kentucky, was built in about 1830. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1] It is or was a two-story, three bay brick side passage plan building which had been stuccoed by 1983. [2]