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  2. Mourning - Wikipedia

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    Mourning dress, c. 1867, Museum of Funeral Customs Poor orphans depicted wearing a makeshift black armband to mourn for their mother (Work by F.M. Brown), 1865. Mourning generally followed English forms into the 20th century. Black dress is still considered proper etiquette for attendance at funerals, but extended periods of wearing black dress ...

  3. Grief - Wikipedia

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    Grief is the response to the loss of something deemed important, particularly to the death of a person or other living thing to which a bond or affection was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, grief also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, cultural, spiritual and philosophical dimensions.

  4. Kaddish - Wikipedia

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    The term Kaddish is often used to refer specifically to "The Mourner's Kaddish," which is chanted as part of the mourning rituals in Judaism in all prayer services, as well as at funerals (other than at the gravesite; see Kaddish acher kevurah, "Qaddish After Burial") and memorials; for 11 Hebrew months after the death of a parent; and in some ...

  5. Shiva (Judaism) - Wikipedia

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    Shiva (Hebrew: שִׁבְעָה ‎, romanized: šīvʿā, lit. 'seven') is the week-long mourning period in Judaism for first-degree relatives. The ritual is referred to as "sitting shiva" in English.

  6. Lament - Wikipedia

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    A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. The grief is most often born of regret , or mourning . Laments can also be expressed in a verbal manner in which participants lament about something that they regret or someone that they have lost, and they are usually accompanied by wailing ...

  7. Banshee - Wikipedia

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    In Ireland and parts of Scotland, a traditional part of mourning is the keening woman (bean chaointe), who wails a lament —in Irish: caoineadh ('weeping'), pronounced [ˈkɯiːnʲə] in the Irish dialects of Munster and southern Galway, [ˈkɯiːnʲuː] in Connacht (except south Galway) and (particularly west) Ulster, and [ˈkɯːnʲuw] in ...

  8. National day of mourning - Wikipedia

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    National days of mourning are typically declared for presidents of the United States, usually on the day of their funerals. Beginning with the November 25th, 1963 mourning of John F. Kennedy, these days are also considered federal holidays. [4] There was no official day of mourning for Herbert Hoover. [5]

  9. Dirge - Wikipedia

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    A dirge (Latin: dirige, nenia [1]) is a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief, such as may be appropriate for performance at a funeral. Often taking the form of a brief hymn, dirges are typically shorter and less meditative than elegies. [2] Dirges are often slow and bear the character of funeral marches.