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At times additional pallbearers, known as honorary pallbearers, walk either behind or directly in front of the casket in a showcase of supplemental distinction towards the deceased. This type of pallbearer is most often a gentleman in the profession of the deceased who has achieved significant merit within their position. [3]
High school students at University of Detroit Jesuit School and Catholic Memorial in Boston serve as pallbearers for military veterans who died homeless.
The coffin is covered by a blue and gold pall, and the grave is being dug in the foreground. Traditionally, the Christian Church opposed the practice of cremation by its members. While involving no necessary contradiction of any article of faith, [3] it is opposed alike to ancient canon law and to the usages of antiquity.
Men were deemed unfit for this because they were supposed to be strong and leaders of the family, unwilling to show any sort of raw emotion like grief, which is why women were professional mourners. It was socially acceptable for women to express grief, and expressing grief is important when it comes to mourning a body in terms of religion. [ 4 ]
Samuel L. Jackson was a sophomore at Morehouse College in Atlanta when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.
A group of Michigan students from the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy served as pallbearers for three veterans.
King's first funeral took place on April 5, 1968, at R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis. After the shooting, King was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. King's closest aides contacted Robert Lewis Jr.—a local funeral director who had first met King two days prior—to retrieve the body and prepare it for viewing.
The former president and his three eldest children were among those who gathered in New York City on Wednesday to mourn the death of his first wife, who died last week at 73 after falling in her home.