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  2. Funeral - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Catholic funeral - Wikipedia

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    Catholic funeral service at St Mary Immaculate Church, Charing Cross. A Catholic funeral is carried out in accordance with the prescribed rites of the Catholic Church.Such funerals are referred to in Catholic canon law as "ecclesiastical funerals" and are dealt with in canons 1176–1185 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, [1] and in canons 874–879 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. [2]

  4. Requiem - Wikipedia

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    Requiem for Bishop Cirilo Almario, in the Mass of Paul VI at Minor Basilica and Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Malolos, Bulacan, 2016 The Requiem, in the Tridentine Mass, celebrated annually for Louis XVI and victims of the French Revolution, in the crypt of Strasbourg Cathedral, 2013 Requiem Mass for Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria at St. Catherine's Cathedral, St. Petersburg ...

  5. Death and culture - Wikipedia

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    In mainland China and Taiwan, Japan, and Korea, the number 4 is often associated with death because the sound of the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean words for four and death are similar (for example, the sound sì in Chinese is the Sino-Korean number 4 (四), whereas sǐ is the word for death (死), and in Japanese "shi" is the number 4, whereas ...

  6. Absolution of the dead - Wikipedia

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    Such prayers are found in the funeral rites of the Catholic Church, [1] Anglicanism, [2] and the Eastern Orthodox Church. Liturgists analysing the Roman Rite funeral texts have applied the term "absolution" (not "absolution of the dead") to the series of chants and prayers that follow Requiem Mass and precede the solemn removal of the body from ...

  7. Ancient Greek funeral and burial practices - Wikipedia

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    A priest or priestess was not allowed to enter the house of the deceased or to take part in the funerary rites, as death was seen as a cause of spiritual impurity or pollution. [7] This is in line with the Greek idea that even the gods could be polluted by death, and hence anything related to the sacred had to be kept away from death and dead ...

  8. Coptic Rite - Wikipedia

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    Coptic cross. The Coptic Rite is an Alexandrian liturgical rite.It is practiced in the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Coptic Catholic Church. [1]The term Coptic derives from Arabic qubṭ / qibṭ قبط, a corruption of Greek Aígyptos (Ancient Greek: Αἴγυπτος, “Egyptian”).

  9. Last rites - Wikipedia

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    The last rites, also known as the Commendation of the Dying, are the last prayers and ministrations given to an individual of Christian faith, when possible, shortly before death. [1] The Commendation of the Dying is practiced in liturgical Christian denominations , such as the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church . [ 2 ]