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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.
Chainsaw Dismemberment is the second studio album by American death metal band Mortician, released on July 6, 1999 [6] by Relapse Records. Track listing [ edit ]
Caitlin Marie Doughty (born August 19, 1984) [3] [1] is an American mortician, author, blogger, YouTuber, and advocate for death acceptance and the reform of Western funeral industry practices.
Reef balls weigh between 800 and 4,000 pounds (360 and 1,810 kg) and their perforations ensure that storm pressure doesn't move them out of place on the sea floor. [8] Young lobster. Reef burials are popular amongst divers and others who love the sea. Some people feel that such burials offer the deceased a second life as part of a living reef. [8]
When not pulverised, the bones are collected by the family and stored as one might do with ashes. The appearance of cremated remains after grinding is one of the reasons they are called ashes, although a non-technical term sometimes used is "cremains", [60] [61] a portmanteau of "cremated" and "remains". (The Cremation Association of North ...
Latin phrase "de mortuis nihil nisi bene" ("Of the dead, say nothing but good") written at the old morgue of Eura Church in Eura, Finland. The term mortuary dates from the early 14th century, from Anglo-French mortuarie, meaning "gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner," from Medieval Latin mortuarium, noun use of neuter of Late Latin adjective mortuarius "pertaining to the dead ...
Funeral directing occurred in ancient times. Most famous are the Egyptians who embalmed their dead. In the United States, funeral directing was not generally in high esteem before the 20th century, especially in comparison to physicians, [1] but because many funeral directors study embalming as part of mortuary science programs, they can be classified as a part of the medical field.
The term mortician is derived from the Latin word mort-('death') with the ending -ician.In 1895, the trade magazine The Embalmers' Monthly put out a call for a new name for the profession in the US to distance itself from the title undertaker, a term that was then perceived to have been tarnished by its association with death.