Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
His parents, Kaiyan Mao and Yu Zhou, who some friends called by adopted English names Joe and Stephanie, were doting and supportive, jokingly calling him Fugui, meaning riches and honor in Chinese ...
Death receivers include parents, children, friends, lovers, co-workers, and other incident survivors. Each receiver responds to the news in a different way because each relationship was unique to the deceased. Most parents want to hold their child's body and collect a physical memento.
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.
A funeral procession in the Philippines, 2009. During the Pre-Hispanic period the early Filipinos believed in a concept of life after death. [1] This belief, which stemmed from indigenous ancestral veneration and was strengthened by strong family and community relations within tribes, prompted the Filipinos to create burial customs to honor the dead through prayers and rituals.
In April 2012 a fisherman recovered a bottom drift bottle that had been released 98 years earlier, on June 10, 1914, [7] [32] one of 1,890 released by the Glasgow School of Navigation to test undercurrents in the seas around Scotland. [88] The 2012 find occurred east of Shetland by the Copious, the same fishing vessel involved in the 2006 find ...
American obituary for WWI death Traditional street obituary notes in Bulgaria. An obituary (obit for short) is an article about a recently deceased person. [1] Newspapers often publish obituaries as news articles.
The coffin of John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia from 1941 to 1945, lying in state inside King's Hall, Old Parliament House, Canberra, on July 6, 1945. A state funeral is a public funeral ceremony, observing the strict rules of protocol, held to honour people of national significance.
The caisson bearing the casket of John F. Kennedy moving down the White House drive on the way to St. Matthew's Cathedral on November 25, 1963.. In the United States, state funerals are the official funerary rites conducted by the federal government in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., that are offered to a sitting or former president, a president-elect, high government officials and ...