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the only party where you're the guest of honor and can't enjoy it.
means A ceremony held to honor and dispose of a dead person's body, usually with mourning, ritual, and gathered family and friends.
from From Latin funus (genitive funeris), meaning 'death rites' or 'corpse,' which gave rise to the adjective funeralis. It reached English in the late Middle Ages by way of Old French funeraille. The deeper root of funus is murky — some have linked it to ideas of smoke or torch-light, fitting since early Roman funerals were lit by procession at night, but that connection is uncertain.
- word origin
- From Latin funus, meaning death and its rites.
- global cost
- Average American funeral now exceeds 7000 dollars.
- viking style
- Boat burials sometimes set ablaze and pushed to sea.
- jazz tradition
- New Orleans funerals march mourning out, dancing back.
- green option
- Human composting is legal in several US states.
john f kennedy funeral — 1963 washington dc, first televised state funeral, 93% of americans watched
charlie chaplin funeral — 1977 corsier-sur-vevey switzerland, body stolen 11 weeks later by thieves demanding ransom