Funeral Sentence Examples
The next morning they helped Lori make funeral arrangements.
She dug out the envelope from the funeral home and tore it in half.
At the funeral, you didn't even set with us.
I've been all tied up with this funeral business.
After her father's funeral Princess Mary shut herself up in her room and did not admit anyone.
I wouldn't go to her funeral.
He called back later and left word that he was staying in Virginia and he'd arranged with a Montrose funeral home to have her cremated.
During the funeral, Carmen stayed by his side.
They all attended the funeral on Wednesday, and Brandon had little to say to any of them.
It was his wedding, not his funeral.
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He needed a suit for the funeral so I came by to pick it up for him.
They didn't go to the funeral too, did they?
Everybody wants to go to their own funeral!
I haven't even seen him since the funeral.
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I had to sell something to pay for the funeral.
She's going to stay with me until after the ... funeral.
He was leaving the country the next morning for a sales trip, so he didn't stay long and wasn't going to be there for the funeral.
It was a simple funeral, with a banquet afterward.
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The early Christian agape admitted of adaptation to the older funeral and sacrificial feasts, and was so adapted.
But she's coming from her grandmother's funeral, and she has a few other dark secrets.
He arranged dining and funeral lodge meetings, enrolled new members, and busied himself uniting various lodges and acquiring authentic charters.
The old man was still dressed in a dark suit after attending the funeral.
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He wrote a pitiful reply to his father, offering to renounce the succession in favour of his baby half-brother Peter, who had been born the day after the princess Charlotte's funeral.
But a careful study of the seventh poem of the last book, in which Propertius gives an account of a dream of her which he had after her death, leads us to the belief that they were once more reconciled, and that in her last illness Cynthia left to her former lover the duty of carrying out her wishes with regard to the disposal of her effects and the arrangements of her funeral.
He died on the 4th of November 1771, and was accorded a public funeral.
He was accorded a magnificent public funeral, his body being removed to Rome and buried in the Campus Martius.
Among human sacrifices may be mentioned the suttee, or custom of immolating a widow on the funeral pyre of the husband, and the Khond sacrifice of the Meriah, who was either purchased or the son of a victim father.
The funeral rites are similar, and the religious representations show an identical form of worship. At the same time the local traditions and conditions differentiate the continental from the insular branch.
The weak parts of this story are the sudden and unexplained departure of the Simons; the subsequent useless cruelty of treating the child like a wild beast and keeping him in a dark room practically out of sight (unless any doubt of his identity was possible), while his sister was in comparative comfort; the cause of death, declared to be of long standing, but in fact developed with such rapidity; the insufficient excuse provided for the child's muteness under Gomin's regime (he had answered Barras) and the irregularities in the formalities in attending the death and the funeral, when a simple identification of the body by Marie Therese would have prevented any question of resuscitated dauphins.
The bishops are chosen from the teachers; they are itinerant, conduct marriage and funeral services, and are present at communions, at ordinations, when deacons are chosen or elected, and at trials for the excommunication of members.
The day after his son's funeral Taylor caught fever from a patient whom he visited, and, after a ten days' illness, he died at Lisburn on the 13th of August 1667, in the fifty-fifth year of his life and the seventh of his episcopate, and was buried in the cathedral of Dromore.
The first biographer of Jeremy Taylor was his friend and successor, George Rust, who preached a funeral sermon (in 1668) which remains a valuable document.
Bucer was his friend at Cambridge, and he preached Bucer's funeral sermon in 1551.
He made careful provision for his funeral, his tomb, and masses for his soul.
But as the camels bearing the treasure reached one of the gates of the city, Firdousi's funeral was leaving it by another.
His funeral was a most remarkable display of public esteem, in which nearly all the ruling princes of Germany joined, and was a striking sign of the position to which, after twenty years of incessant struggle, he had raised his party.
He was first aroused to serious thought in 1785 by a funeral sermon preached over his elder brother by Adam Clarke.
And we need have no hesitation in accepting this as a monument put up over a portion of the ashes from the funeral pyre of Gotama the Buddha.
The brilliant summary of the historian Thucydides in the famous Funeral Speech of Pericles (delivered in 430), in which the social life, the institutions and the culture of his country are set forth as a model, gives a substantially true picture of Athens in its greatest days.
At the funeral a brawl occurred between the soldiers and the priests, and the coffin having been made too short the body without the mitre was driven into it by main force and covered with an oil-cloth.
The red matter proves to be the remains of wine, not of blood; and the conclusion of the ablest archaeologists is that the vessels were placed where they are found, after the eucharistic celebration or agape on 'the day of the funeral or its anniversary, and contained remains of the consecrated elements as a kind of religious charm.
In spite of such a foolish ending, his funeral was that of a martyr, and by many of his adherents he has been regarded since with feelings almost of religious devotion.
At the funeral games of Pelias, she wrestled with Peleus, and won.
He reached Sparta on the day on which Orestes was holding the funeral feast over Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra.
They remained untold, for he died two days later on the 10th of April, and was buried in the Pantheon, the funeral oration being pronounced by Laplace and Lacepede.
But in spite of this unprecedented blaze of dramatic genius the theatre fell into pecuniary difficulties, and had to be closed, Holberg composing for the last night's performance, in February 1727, a Funeral of Danish Comedy.
Among the literary relics of the 12th century are the Latiatuc " or Halotti Beszed funeral discourse and prayer in Hungarian, to which Dobrentei in his Regi Magyar Nyelvemlekek assigns as a probable date the year 1171 (others, however, 1182 or 1183).
Still the correspondence of religion and of funeral rites is very close.
In the heap itself was found an immense quantity of pieces of harness and what may be remains of a funeral car.
He still continued, however, to preach regularly at court, being especially in request for funeral orations.
Sahdona, who was a monk in the Nestorian monastery of Beth `Abhe (the same to which Thomas of Marga belonged two centuries later) and afterwards a bishop early in the 7th century, wrote a biography of and a funeral sermon on his superior Mar Jacob who founded the monastery, and also a long treatise in two parts on the monastic life, of which all that survives has been edited by P. Bedjan (Paris, 1902).
He was able, however, to attend the funeral of Queen Victoria on the 2nd of February 1901, and preached a remarkable sermon before the king and the German emperor on the following day.
He was for a time virtually governor of half Egypt, and for three years was secretary of the Institut du Caire; he also delivered the funeral orations for Kleber and Desaix.
For details of Giry's life and works see the funeral orations published in the Bibliothbque de l'Ecole des Charles, and afterwards in a pamphlet (1899).
He was commanded to preach before the king at the convent of Vincennes, when the success of his sermon on the love of God, and of a funeral oration on the poet Ronsard, induced him to take orders.
On his death the Witan which had attended his funeral elected to succeed him Harold, the foremost man in England, and the leader who had attempted to check the spread of the Norman influence fostered by the Confessor.
The latter were about to bury him without delay or ceremony, but the gastald or chief magistrate of the city interfered and appointed a public funeral; rumours of his wondrous travels and of posthumous miracles were diffused, and excitement spread like wildfire over Friuli and Carniola; the ceremony had to be deferred more than once, and at last took place in presence of the patriarch of Aquileia and all the local dignitaries.
At his funeral obsequies the celebrated proselyte Aquila (Akylas Onkelos), reviving an ancient custom, burned costly materials to the value of seventy minae.
The chamber of deputies voted him a state funeral.
She was buried at St Denis, her funeral oration being pronounced by her friend Bossuet, and it was asserted that she had been poisoned by order of her husband.
He settled at Madrid in 1626, and died there on the 28th of July 1631 in such poverty that his funeral expenses were defrayed by charity.
The gravest doubts, however, exist as to the authenticity of this story; Fernao Lopes, the Portuguese Froissart, who is the great authority fcr the details of the death of Inez, with some of the actors in which he was acquainted, says nothing of the ghastly ceremony, though he tells at length the tale of the funeral honours that the king bestowed upon his wife.
When he wrote the latter work he must have left Royaumont, as he speaks of returning from the funeral of Prince Louis (15th January 1260) "ad nostram domum," a phrase which can hardly be explained otherwise than as referring to his own Dominican house, whether at Beauvais or elsewhere.
According to Jordanes (the epitomator of Cassiodorus's History of the Goths) at the funeral of Attila his vassals, as they rode round the corpse, sang of his glorious deeds.
The Life of Agricola by his son-in-law Tacitus is practically a panegyric or funeral oration.
An approach to literature was made in the Annales Maximi, records of private families, funeral orations and inscriptions on busts and tombs such as those of the Scipios in XVI.
The metre was also employed in commemorative poems, accompanied with music, which were sung at funeral banquets in celebration of the exploits and virtues of distinguished men.
He took a leading part in the settlement of the dockers' strike in the autumn of 1889, and his patient and effectual action on this and on similar occasions secured for him the esteem and affection of great numbers of working men, so that his death on the 14th of January 1892, and his funeral a week later, were the occasion for a remarkable demonstration of popular veneration.
She died at the end of September 1435, and was interred without funeral honours in the abbey of St Denis, by the side of her husband, Charles VI.
Sensible of the loss which the nation had sustained by his death, the empress Catherine ordered him a funeral at the public expense.
His body lay in state at Greenwich and after a public funeral was buried in Henry VII.'s chapel at Westminster Abbey, to be disinterred at the Restoration.
Other noteworthy tombs are those of the Granduca, with a single subterranean chamber carefully constructed in travertine, and containing eight sarcophagi of the same material; of Vigna Grande, very similar to this; of Cone Casuccini (the ancient stone door of which is still in working order), with two chambers, containing paintings representing funeral rites; of Poggio Moro and Valdacqua, in the former of which the paintings are almost destroyed, while the latter is now inaccessible.
Tiberius appears to have received the news with indifference, if not with satisfaction; he absented himself from the funeral, and refused to allow her apotheosis; her will was suppressed for a long time and only carried out, and the legacies paid, by Caligula.
He succeeded his master, Vauquelin, as professor of organic chemistry at the natural history museum in 1830, and thirty-three years later assumed its directorship also; this he relinquished in 1879, though he still retained his professorship. In 1886 the completion of his hundredth year was celebrated with public rejoicings; and after his death, which occurred in Paris on the 9th of April 1889, he was honoured with a public funeral.
The popularity which he enjoyed in his own time is attested by the fact that at his death, although he had filled none of the offices of state, he received the honour of a public funeral.
Many other forms of crown were used by the Romans, as the conqueror's triumphal crown of laurel, the myrtle crown, and the convivial, bridal, funeral and other crowns.
The bishop, who attended the Conqueror's funeral, joined in the great rising against William Rufus next year (1088), making Bristol, with which (as Domesday shows) he was closely connected and where he had built a strong castle, his base of operations.
He was a friend of Mirabeau, whose policy he supported and whose funeral oration he pronounced.
Next day the National Assembly issued a decree expressing their great sorrow on account of his death; and the public funeral on the 7th of July was one of the most striking spectacles of its kind.
The Iliad concludes with the funeral rites of Hector.
Here the undertakers (libitinarii), who carried out all funeral arrangements by contract, had their offices, and everything necessary was kept for sale or hire; here all deaths were registered for statistical purposes.
The word Libitina then came to be used for the business of an undertaker, funeral requisites, and (in the poets) for death itself.
The inconsistency of selling funeral requisites in the temple of Libitina, seeing that she is identified with Venus, is explained by him as indicating that one and the same goddess presides over birth and death; or the association of such things with the goddess of love and pleasure is intended to show that death is not a calamity, but rather a consummation to be desired.
Augustus honoured his memory by a magnificent funeral.
His funeral was a simple but impressive public pageant.
She died in November 1687, and was buried on the 17th, according to her own request, in the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, her funeral sermon being preached by the vicar, Thomas Tenison, afterwards archbishop of Canterbury, who said "much to her praise."
The Convention attended his funeral, and placed his bust in the hall where it held its sessions.
The first five books, which cover the same ground as the Aethiopis of Arctinus of Miletus, describe the doughty deeds and deaths of Penthesileia the Amazon, of Memnon, son of the Morning, and of Achilles; the funeral games in honour of Achilles, the contest for the arms of Achilles and the death of Ajax.
He was accorded a public funeral, and a statue was erected to his memory in front of the Rostra.
He died at Cannes on the 6th of December 1882, and on the 12th of December received a state funeral in the cemetery of Pere-Lachaise.
They began in 1860 at the funeral of the widow of General Sobinski, killed in 1830, and on the 27th of February 1861 they led to the so-called Warsaw massacres, when the troops fired on a crowd which refused to disperse.
Mecherzynski, in his "History of Eloquence in Poland" (Historya wymowy w Polsce), especially praises his two funeral sermons on the burial of Anna Jagiellonka, widow of Stephen Batory, and Anna of Austria, first wife of Sigismund III.
In 1546 he was present at Luther's deathbed at Eisleben, and preached the funeral sermon; but in the same year was banished from the duchy by Maurice, duke (later elector) of Saxony.
He was buried in the churchyard of St Martin's in the Fields, his funeral sermon being preached by his friend Bishop Burnet.
His funeral monument at St Denis depicts a man with beardless, square-cut features, but lacking character and animation.
Already in 68 B.C. he had paraded the bust of Marius at his aunt's funeral; in 65 B.C., as curule aedile, he restored the trophies of Marius to their place on the Capitol; in 64 B.C., as president of the murder commission, he brought three of Sulla's executioners to trial, and in 63 B.C. he caused the ancient procedure of trial by popular assembly to be revived against the murderer of Saturninus.
He was also employed by the prince consort to prepare a design for the Kensington Museum; and he made the drawings for the Wellington funeral car.
The funeral rites of the Mexicans are best seen in the ceremonies at the death of a king.
But after cremation came in a mourning procession of servants and chiefs carrying the body to the funeral pyre to be burnt by the demondressed priests, after which the crowd of wives and slaves were exhorted to serve their lord faithfully in the next world, were sacrificed and their bodies burnt.
Common people would not thus be provided with a ghostly retinue, but their simpler funeral ceremonies were as far as they went similar to those of their monarch.
His funeral was celebrated at once, as he had wished, and not a few of his soldiers followed their master's example by killing themselves at his pyre.
He was honoured with a splendid funeral, and a sanctuary called Teutamium was dedicated to him.
On the death of Henri de Villars, archbishop of Vienne, in 1693, he was commissioned to deliver a funeral oration, and this was the beginning of his fame.
For a will was to begin with but a mode of indicating (not necessarily in writing) on whom devolved the duty of conducting a parent's funeral, and together with that duty the right of inheriting his property.
The due performance of funeral rites re-created the blood tie and renewed the kinship of living and dead at the moment when death seemed specially to endanger it by removal of that representative of the household whose special duty it had been to keep up the family sacra.
If he marries, it is to have children who may celebrate them after his death; if he has no children, he lies under the strongest obligation to adopt them from another family, ` with a view,' writes the Hindu doctor, ` to the funeral cake, the water and the solemn sacrifice.'" "May there be born in our lineage," so the Indian Manes are supposed to say, "a man to offer to us, on the thirteenth day of the moon, rice boiled in milk, honey and ghee."
The family have on the preceding days solemnly visited the grave, and offered to the shades gifts of water, wine, milk, honey, oil, and the blood of black victims; they have decked the tomb with flowers, have renewed the feast and farewell of the funeral, and have prayed to the ancestors to watch over their welfare.
Funeral orations, such as the famous speech put into the mouth of Pericles by Thucydides, also partook of the nature of panegyrics.
The Romans confined the panegyric to the living, and reserved the funeral oration exclusively for the dead.
He preached the funeral sermon at Lyons over St Bonaventura.
He attended Queen Mary during her last illness and preached her funeral sermon in Westminster Abbey.
A complete list of his works is given as an appendix to Dr Priestley's Funeral Sermon.
Funeral Customs. - Icelandic writers of the 12th and 13th centuries distinguished between an earlier " age of burning " and a later " age of barrows," and the investigations of modern archaeologists have tended in general to confirm the distinction, though they have revealed also the burial-places of times antecedent to the age of burning.
A special form of funeral rite peculiar to the North was that of cremation on a ship. Generally the ship was drawn up on land; but occasionally we hear, in legendary sagas, of the burning ship being sent out to sea.
The populace of the Tiber welcomed and expelled him with equal enthusiasm, and when his body was brought back from exile, the mob went before the cortege and threw mud and stones upon the funeral litter.
He died on the 28th of September 1898, and his funeral was the most imposing ever seen in North Wales.
After his father's death he instituted splendid funeral games in his honour, which were celebrated by artists and poets, such as Stesichorus.
The Galibis of Guiana, when asked the meaning of their curious funeral ceremony, which consists in dancing on the grave, replied that they did it to stamp down the earth.
Before burial takes place the clergyman or other person conducting the funeral or religious service must have the registrar's certificate that the death of the deceased person has been duly registered, or else a coroner's order or warrant.
Horse-breeding is most important in Friesland, which produces the well-known black breed of horse commonly used in funeral processions.
I cannot say there is no vanity in making this funeral oration of myself, but I hope it is not a misplaced one; and this is a matter of fact which is easily cleansed and ascertained."
He died in London on the 8th of December 1691, and his funeral was attended by churchmen as well as dissenters.
Then all France awoke to a sense of her obligation to him, and his public funeral on the 6th of January 1883 evoked one of the most overwhelming displays of national sentiment ever witnessed on a similar occasion.
He died on the 8th of June 1841; ten thousand people attended his funeral.
In mythology Oeta is chiefly celebrated as the scene of the funeral pyre on which Heracles burnt himself before his admission to Olympus.
In order to defray the charges of her funeral, and to pay some debts which she had left, he wrote a little book in a single week, and sent off the sheets to the press without reading them over.
It was noted for the first time in this February speech, but the most striking instance was in a speech on Mr Osborne Morgan's Burials Bill in April 1875, in which he described a Quaker funeral, and protested against the "miserable superstition of the phrase `buried like a dog.'" "In that sense," he said, "I shall be buried like a dog, and all those with whom I am best acquainted, whom I best love and esteem, will be ` buried like a dog.'
He died in New York on the 24th of May 1879, in the seventy-fourth year of his age, and was buried in Boston, after a most impressive funeral service, four days later.
A similar feeling of pride at the completion of a great career is expressed in the memorial lines which he composed to be placed under his bust after death,- "Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men."
The funeral takes place on the day of the death, if that happen in the morning; otherwise on the next day.
The funeral procession is headed by a number of poor, and generally blind, men, chanting the profession of the faith, followed by male friends of the deceased, and a party of schoolboys, also chanting, generally from a poem descriptive of the state of the soul after death.
Here the funeral service is performed by the imam, and the procession then proceeds to the tomb.
It is apparently through the funeral that Osiris so early took a firm hold on the imagination of people; for at a very ancient date he was identified with y dead king, and it needed but a slight extension of this idea iakehim into a king of the dead.
The principal monument of this period is the temple of Deir el Bahri, the funeral temple of Hatshepsut, on which she recorded the principal event of her reign, the expedition to Punt.
During nine days wood was collected and brought, in carts drawn by oxen, to the site of the funeral pyre.
Finally, a barrow of great magnitude was heaped over the remains and the funeral feast was celebrated.
Herodotus, describing the funeral customs of the Scythians, states that, on the death of a chief, the body was placed upon a couch in a chamber sunk in the earth and covered with timber, in which were deposited all things needful for the comfort of the deceased in the other world.
Hobhouse shared Byron's enthusiasm for the liberation of Greece; after the poet's death in 1824 he proved his will, and superintended the arrangements for his funeral.
The shield, helmet and saddle, which formed part of the original funeral equipment, still hang above it.
He was a pall-bearer at his funeral on the 28th of May, as he had previously been at the burials of Tennyson and Millais.
In the Black Pyramid of Abusir (VIth Dynasty), at least 3000 B.C., Gaston Maspero found some pieces of iron, and in the funeral text of Pepi I.
In the spring of 1881 he preached funeral sermons in the abbey on Thomas Carlyle and Lord Beaconsfield, concluding with the latter a series of sermons preached on public occasions.
Acastus, son of Pelias, drove out Jason and Medea and celebrated funeral games in honour of his father, which were celebrated by the poet Stesichorus and represented on the chest of Cypselus.
As the emblem of official authority, they were carried by the lictors, in the left hand and on the left shoulder, before the higher Roman magistrates; at the funeral of a deceased magistrate they were carried behind the bier.
Dean Stanley assisted at his funeral service in Abney Park cemetery.
Presently we find an offer of discipleship met by the warning that " the Son of Man " is a homeless wanderer; and then the stern refusal of a request for leave to perform a father's funeral rites.
The elector of Saxony and Luther's family resolved that he must be buried at Wittenberg, and on the 20th the funeral procession began its long march.
Thorbecke's funeral furnished the occasion for an imposing national demonstration, which showed how deeply he was revered by all classes of his countrymen.
At the age of twelve (51 B.C.) he delivered the customary funeral panegyric on his grandmother Julia, his first public appearance.
As was fully his due, his funeral oration was pronounced by Augustus, and he was buried in the mausoleum near the Tiber built by Augustus for himself and his family.
On the day of the funeral it was borne to the Campus Martius on the shoulders of senators and there burnt.
The funeral ceremonies of the Parsees are solemn and imposing.
After life is extinct a funeral sermon is delivered by the priest, in which the deceased is made the subject of an exhortation to his relatives and friends to live pure, holy and righteous lives, so that they may hope to meet again in paradise.
On each successive anniversary of the death of a Parsee funeral ceremonies are performed in his memory.
McKinley's funeral took place at Canton, Ohio, on the 1 9 th of September, the occasion being remarkable for the public manifestations of mourning, not only in the United States, but in Great Britain and other countries; in Canton a memorial tomb has been erected.
His funeral orations are the most notable in their kind of any delivered during his time, those devoted to Marshal Drouet and Daniel O'Connell being especially marked by point and clearness.
In Bali near Java, where the Naga-cult flourishes, a serpent is carried at the funeral ceremonies of the Kshatriya caste and burned with the corpse.
From its roof the famous Moravian trombones were long played on festal or funeral occasions, and later summoned the people to musical festivals.
Amid great lamentation, the hero's body is laid on the funeral pile and consumed.
Chief amongst these are the Brahmans who minister for" unclean "Sudras and lower castes, including the makers and dealers in spirituous liquors; as well as those who officiate at the great public shrines or places of pilgrimage where they might be liable to accept forbidden gifts, and, as a matter of fact, often amass considerable wealth; and those who officiate as paid priests at cremations and funeral rites, when the wearing apparel and bedding of the deceased are not unfrequently claimed by them as their perquisites.
The first Sraddha takes place as soon as possible after the antyeshti (" final offering") or funeral ceremony proper, usually spread over ten days; being afterwards repeated once a month for a year, and subsequently at every anniversary and otherwise voluntarily on special occasions.
He died at Washington on the 11th of July 1909, and was given a military funeral, having been made a rear-admiral by Act of Congress in 1906.
At first he seemed disposed to treat the conspirators leniently, but at the same time he so roused the people against them by the publication of Caesar's will and by his eloquent funeral oration, that they were obliged to leave the city.
Nor can he have written the funeral panegyric on Basil who survived him by three months.
Thus the Roman edition contains (of metrical works) exegetical discourses, hymns on the Nativity of Christ, 65 hymns against heretics, 85 on the Faith against sceptics, a discourse against the Jews, 85 funeral hymns, 4 on free-will, 76 exhortations to repentance, 12 hymns on paradise, and 12 on miscellaneous subjects.
Jules Breton has coloured the days of toil with sentiment; others, like Courbet, whose eccentric "Funeral at Ornans" attracted more notice at the Salon of 1850 than Millet's "Sowers and Binders," have treated similar subjects as a vehicle for protest against social misery; Millet alone, a peasant and a miserable one himself, saw true, neither softening nor exaggerating what he saw.
Thus in process of time birth-rites, marriage-rites, funeral rites, not to mention subordinate ceremonies such as those of name-giving and food-taking, become domestic sacraments.
Suetonius, Valerius Maximus, Appian and Dio Cassius all state that, at Caesar's funeral, a certain Helvius Cinna was killed by mistake for Cornelius Cinna, the conspirator.
It has been suggested that it was really Cornelius, not Helvius Cinna, who was slain at Caesar's funeral, but this is not borne out by the authorities.
He also brought out the editio princeps of the speeches of Hypereides Against Demosthenes (1850), On Behalf of Lycophron and Euxenippus (1853), and his Funeral Oration (1858).
He died on the 24th of November 1572, and at his funeral in St Giles' Churchyard the new Regent Morton, speaking under the hostile guns of the castle, expressed the first surprise of those around as they looked back on that stormy life, that one who had "neither flattered nor feared any flesh" had now "ended his days in peace and honour."
Count Anders Johan von Hopken (1712-1789), the friend of Louise Ulrica, was a master of rhetorical compliment in addresses and funeral orations.
He was buried on the 17th in Henry VII.'s chapel in Westminster Abbey with funeral ceremonies criticized by contemporaries as mean and wanting in respect, but the scantiness of which was probably owing to the fact that he had died a Roman Catholic.
His funeral at Madrid was an imposing demonstration of the sympathy and respect of all classes and parties.
Among the lighter and more popular works may be mentioned twenty-two books of Orations (probably never spoken), some funeral eulogies (Laudationes), some " exhortations " (Suasiones), conceivably of a political character, and an account of the author's own life.
The Commons presented an address to the king praying that the deceased statesman might be buried with the honours of a public funeral, and voted a sum for a public monument which was erected over his grave in Westminster Abbey.
Soon after the funeral a bill was passed bestowing a pension of 4000 a year on his successors in the earldom.
Amongst them may be mentioned a history of the dispute with Palamas; biographies of his uncle and early instructor John, metropolitan of Heraclea, and of the martyr Codratus of Antioch; funeral orations for Theodore Metochita, and the two emperors Andronicus; commentaries on the wanderings of Odysseus and on Synesius's treatise on dreams; tracts on orthography and on words of doubtful meaning; a philosophical dialogue called Florentius or Concerning Wisdom; astronomical treatises on the date of Easter and the preparation of the astrolabe; and an extensive correspondence.
On the day after his death Gregoire's funeral was celebrated at the church of the Abbaye-aux-Bois; the clergy of the church had absented themselves in obedience to the archbishop's orders, but mass was sung by the abbe Grieu assisted by two clergy, the catafalque being decorated with the episcopal insignia.
Many historical events have taken place in this famous boulevard, notably the entry of the troops in 1871, and the funeral pageant of the emperor Willaim I.
He returned from his travels impoverished; one tradition says that he received 500 talents from his fellow-citizens, and that a public funeral was decreed him.
Lictors were also assigned to private individuals at the celebration of funeral games, and to the aediles at the games provided by them and the theatrical representations under their supervision.
To political bias was added family pride, for the gratification of which the archives of the great houses, the funeral panegyrics, or the imagination of the writer himself supplied an ample store of doubtful material.
Athanaric himself came to Constantinople in 381; he was received with high honours, and had a solemn funeral when he died.
He had already shown his talents as a speaker at the funeral of Amy Robsart in 1560; and when Sir Thomas White, the founder of the college, was buried in 1564, the Latin oration fell to the lot of Campion.
Hoof t died on a visit to the Hague, whither he had gone to attend the funeral of Prince Frederick Henry, on the 21st of May 1647, and was buried in the New Church at Amsterdam.
His funeral was celebrated with royal pomp on the 3rd of February, and representatives from every part of Hungary followed the " Sage " to the grave.
The usual funeral panegyric was pronounced on him in the Forum, and the people would have had him buried by the side of Sulla in the Campus Martius, but at his brother's request he was laid in his splendid villa at Tusculum.
He received a public funeral, at which Captain Dreyfus was present.
At Ancarano near Norcia was situated a small pages; remains of a temple were found there in 1880, which from the character of the objects seems to have been destroyed in the 5th century B.C. The tombs of the district have also produced interesting early bronzes, &c., some of which go back to the 7th century B.C., and a fine funeral couch decorated with sculptured pieces of bone.
Elaborate funeral rites, often accompanied by human sacrifice,, play a most important part in native life.
Again, the funeral offerings of food, clothing, weapons, &c., to the dead are absolutely intelligible and purposeful among savage races, who believe that the souls of the departed are ethereal beings capable of consuming food, and of receiving and using the souls or phantoms of any objects sacrificed for their use.
He now stood for his statue to the sculptor, Nicholas Stone, standing before a fire in his study at the Deanery, with his winding-sheet wrapped and tied round him, his eyes shut, and his feet resting on a funeral urn.
It made provision, as became a great servant of the most Christian king, for masses to be said and candles to be offered in three different churches of Amboise, first among them that of St Florentin, where he desired to be buried, as well as for sixty poor men to serve as torch-bearers at his funeral.
He had caught cold in January at the funeral of the duke of York, and never recovered.
Some of the effigies were carried in funeral processions according to custom, but this was not done later than 1 735.
The horror and grief excited by this tragedy were boundless, and the president was honoured with a splendid funeral in the Pantheon, Paris.
Thus, according to the Wurttemberg Kirchenordnung of 1553, a funeral procession was prescribed, the bier being followed by the congrega- church.
At present funeral processions survive in general only in the country districts; the processional cross or crucifix is still carried.
The dead are borne to the grave with uncovered faces, and a Rumanian funeral is a scene of much barbaric display.
Their funeral mourning consists of abstaining from drink and eating raw beef, and they use a wooden log for a coffin.
His body was dragged from the bier, while being conveyed to the funeral pile, and treated with the greatest indignity.
His body was brought to Amesbury for interment; the funeral services were held in the open air, and conducted after the simple rites of the Friends, in the presence of a large concourse, certain of whom " spake as they were moved " in tribute to the bard.
All originated in pagan funeral or commemorative rites, and continued to be held, even in Christian times, in very ancient cemeteries.
He was entertained in France, and was taken by Maximilian to attend the funeral of the emperor Frederick III.
That his eloquence was highly appreciated is shown by the facts that he pronounced the discourse at the consecration of Gregory of Nazianzus, and that he was chosen to deliver the funeral oration on the death of Meletius the first president of the council.
In 383 he was probably again in Constantinople; where in 385 he pronounced the funeral orations of the princess Pulcheria and afterwards of the empress Placilla.
On one of the sides of the mountain is a tarn which bears the name of Lochan nan Corp, "the little loch of the dead," from an accident to a funeral party by which 200 lives were lost.
But he marched no further than Dumfries, and then turned back, on the vain pretext that he must conduct his parents funeral in person.
He was given a magnificent public funeral, and his remains were laid in the Pantheon.
For, who with all his faults was never wanting in a fine and generous sensibility, proposed that there should be a public funeral, and that the body should lie among the illustrious dead in Westminster Abbey.
There was much popular excitement at his funeral, and his tomb was known and visited until at least the 14th century A.D.
For their courtiers he wrote epithalamial and funeral orations; ambassadors and visitors from foreign states he greeted with the rhetorical lucubrations then so much in vogue.
At a funeral, the coffin is left open until the last moment - a custom found everywhere in the Balkans, and said to have been introduced by the Turks, who found that coffins were a convenient hiding-place for arms. The same practice is, however, common in Spain and Portugal.
He was honoured by a splendid funeral at Brussels, but his body was interred at his own capital city of Parma.
His funeral, which was attended by the representatives of the powers at Sofia, was interrupted by disgraceful riots, and an effort was made to perpetrate an outrage on his remains.
There are certain debts in England, Scotland and the United States which are said to be privileged - that is, such debts as the executor must first apply the personal estate of the deceased, in payment, for example, of funeral expenses or servants' wages.
The day after the demonstration of June 1832 on the occasion of the funeral of General Lamarque, he made himself indirectly the mouthpiece of the Democrats in an interview with Louis Philippe, which is given at length in his Memoires.
In France, where his release was regarded as a French diplomatic victory, he was received, in March 1802, as a person of distinction; and when he died on the 24th of August 1803 his funeral was attended by the military and an immense number of the civil population.
In January 337, at the annual winter Festival of the Dead in the Outer Ceramicus, he spoke the funeral oration over those who had fallen at Chaeronea.
His funeral at Glasnevin was attended by 200,000 people.
In 1868, two years after the Austrians finally departed from Venice, his remains were brought to his native city and honoured with a public funeral.
His first appointment had been as almoner to Queen Catherine Parr, then wife of Lord Seymour; and he peached her funeral sermon in September 1548.
The nation, restive under his now broken yoke, received with a joyous anticipation, which the future was to discount, the royal infant whom they called Louis the Well-beloved, and whose funeral sixty years later was to be greeted with the same proofs of disillusionment.
Ambrose has also left several funeral orations and ninetyone letters, but it is as a hymn-writer that he perhaps deserves most honour.
This plan was not carried out, but Dinocrates designed for Alexander the plan of the new city of Alexandria, and constructed the vast funeral pyre of Hephaestion.
At the time of the queen's death an unseemly incident was occasioned by Leopold's refusal to see his daughter Stephanie, who in consequence was not present at her mother's funeral.
His pupil Nicephorus Gregoras, who delivered his funeral oration, calls him a "living library."
But her love for Sigurd was great as ever, and she determined not to survive him; distributing her wealth to her hand-maidens, she mounted Sigurd's funeral pyre, slew herself with his sword, and was burnt with him.
Do you plan to fly out to the funeral if she passes away?
I had to make my speech at the funeral not knowing anyone but Julie and that bastard Ronnie who hates my guts.
He'd tried to call me but I had my cell of because of the funeral.
Her pain was raw, yet there was mettle in her backbone if she'd gone to Sean's funeral, fully knowing her own father killed the Guardian.
Cynthia suggested a funeral, complete with a shoebox coffin and a solemn burial, a feat Dean would have guessed impossible given the frozen earth.
A full funeral mass was not scheduled—only an informal memorial service.
The day after the funeral, Lori was in the hospital again — this time to give birth.
She watched the Guardians gather wood in the eerie light of the bloody sun and start the funeral pyre for her father's body.
A busload of QPR fans passed us looking so solemn, you'd have thought they were on their way to a funeral.
The funeral was an excellent forum for sympathy tributes.
No need was there of any official announcement of a State funeral or public rite of any sort.
You feel anxious about the funeral - will you cry more than anyone else will?
Finally they would like to thank Brian, Jean, Carl, Pauline, Peter and Colin for the funeral arrangements.
He carried the great banner at Lord Nelson's funeral.
She was a lady of great benevolence who spent much of her time uplifting the poor, the funeral was at Beckenham.
Police Motorcycles guided the funeral cars through the mid-day traffic as a hovering helicopter kept a watchful eye on the proceeding cavalcade.
Don't give chrysanthemums or white Asters to a host as they are considered to be funeral flowers.
The gun carriage was also used for Princess Diana's funeral cortege in 1997.
After writing Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, Richard Curtis makes his directing debut.
She had asked for the funeral to be held in the Chapel, now very dilapidated.
All available services at both cemeteries may be booked through local funeral directors.
After his death the mourning pupil wrote a funeral dirge (1908) in memory of his master.
The only appropriate songs for many years have been funeral dirges.
Unfortunately these 5 tracks tend to bleed into one another like a mid tempo funeral dirge.
You should reasonable expect to be given an itemized price list of the components of the funeral, which should include disbursements.
At Annie's funeral it is said that Palmer appeared greatly distressed.
How dare he have his coffin draped with a Union Flag at his funeral.
He'd already proved his tear ducts were in good working order at the Versace funeral.
A hatchment was a funeral escutcheon which was originally placed on the outside of the house of the deceased person.
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Two women would scatter herbs before her funeral procession which should be accompanied by a fiddler.
In South Carolina she uncovered flaws in the state's forensic crime lab and exposed dangerous practices in funeral homes.
They are always hand delivered by the florist a couple of hours prior to the funeral.
Hugh Grant in Four Weddings and a Funeral is a clear forerunner of Bill's character.
Tomâs funeral service drew huge crowds, not only from the golfing fraternity.
We were responsible for the coverage at Princess Diana's funeral at Westminster Abbey, the Queen mother's funeral, the Millenium.
Colonel D N Lowe OBE DL attended the funeral on behalf of the Regiment.
The cost of a return journey for you to either arrange the funeral, or go to the funeral.
The Rev David Lyon conducted the funeral at Accrington Crematorium on Wednesday.
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Where no identification is possible, the corpse is interred in a grave with a full military funeral.
The public house was also used for providing refreshments after a paupers funeral.
Frankly after we had given him his viking funeral, we missed having him around.
I met a young gentlewoman who was never under the word till the night of our triumphant funeral.
This powerlessness translated itself into elaborate funeral rituals to assuage the grief of those left behind.
At the funeral of Lord Nelson in January 1806 Captain Bayntun bore the guidon in the water procession from Greenwich Hospital.
The chapel has a number of the families ' funeral hatchments displayed on the walls.
Currently, many funeral directors will not sell coffins separately or offer a hearse for use, unless the entire funeral package is purchased.
The words Slow down were written in flowers and displayed in the back of a funeral hearse.
The Funeral Company, Milton Keynes provides a range of services, from green funerals to horse-drawn hearses.
Click here to read Cardinal Ratzinger's inspiring homily at John Paul II's funeral.
A funeral hymn is followed by a New Orleans-style parade.
Her old friend, William Robinson, tho very infirm, attended the funeral in a bath chair, at the age of 94.
To arrange an interment, contact a Funeral Director who will make all necessary arrangements with the Cemeteries Section.
A funeral service followed by interment took place at St Barnabas Church on May 2 nd.
Funeral service on Saturday 9th August at Dunblane Cemetery at 11.30am to which all friends are respectfully invited.
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Were there no ears on which the rude clamor of that noisy mirth struck as a funeral knell?
Universally loathed recent refurbishment with marble slabs has warmth of an Italian funeral parlor.
It seems too macabre to suggest that she was a mourner at another funeral, stricken down suddenly on the platform and promptly buried!
There is the feeling of a very, very slow funeral march.
It may be possible that the ceremony was what is known is research circles as a Prestonian funeral i.e. a purely Masonic ceremony.
Set in Glasgow, it follows the misadventures of three brothers and their disabled sister the night before their mother's funeral.
Without proper funeral rites, the spirit of the deceased will cause misfortune to its family.
His funeral was attended by mourners from all walks of life, coming to pay their respects to the artist.
The Egyptians made funeral shrouds from it and the Romans used it to make napkins which could be cleaned by throwing into the fire.
Interestingly, a local cinema is showing a newsreel of the funeral of the mayor.
First, the Queen's mother was a saint, and her funeral allowed a willing nation to pay obeisance to that fact.
Funeral homes and reporters can log in and post obits, I've got search, paged news and RSS.
When they had performed the funeral obsequies, Al-Hasan arraigned the assassin before him.
The BHA has a network of accredited funeral officiants, organized into nine regions.
I don't want someone to go take 10 ohms and die or anything as my funeral suit is in the dry cleaners.
Sir Gilbert Hamilton gives the funeral oration at the burial of King Robert the Bruce at Dunfermline Abbey in 1329.
Give the class 10 minutes to prepare a 90 second funeral oration for the person whose name they got.
A funeral pall was cast over the entire championships and we almost couldn't carry on.
With each sale there is a promise that eventually a funeral parlor will be built for future services.
The most representative type, a long spouted pitcher used in funeral rituals, was decorated with the head of an animal.
The funeral procession of Edward VII, location unknown in London, drawn by naval ratings.
There was plenty of wood left to create a funeral pyre.
The fire of the funeral pyre is lit by the eldest son.
I am reminded of the huge funeral pyres of cattle carcasses, which we saw last year.
In Western legend, the phoenix, or Red Bird, rises from the ashes of its own funeral pyre to live again.
Broad also spoke of flames from the open funeral pyres being visible from twenty miles away.
Way ahead on dusk's horizon I could see the burning funeral pyre of animal carcasses below the Broad Hinton white horse.
In this Indian custom, widows would lie on their husband's funeral pyre to die with them.
The present Earl Spencer was to deliver an astonishing rebuke to the royal family at Diana's funeral.
True to his wishes, there is to be no funeral - his body being taken straight to Cork for medical research.
The people were all very glad to be able to perform some of the proper funeral rites.
An imagined funeral rite or pagan ritual with Alex listening in.
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Four days after my mother's funeral I went scuba diving for the first time.. .
Whitehead also preached John Wesley's funeral sermon in City Road Chapel.
Poor little Annie Davies was absent from school with a sore throat which led to her funeral just 8 days later!
When her relatives arrived for the funeral they were anxious to unearth the treasure but Mama Tembo refused to disclose the site.
There is advice about new guidance on PPE and on the use of ladders and new resources for laundry workers and for funeral undertakers.
Another was a funeral urn for a Great Dane's ashes.
It turned out they were preparing funeral wreaths for the next day.
Friend join me in paying tribute to my constituent Fusilier Russell Beeston, following his funeral yesterday?
At the end of the first year of war (early in 430) Pericles made a great appeal to the pride of his countrymen in his well-known funeral speech.
We must, then, admit that Pericles sincerely contemplated the good of his fellow-countrymen, and we may believe that he endeavoured to realize that ideal Athens which Thucydides sketches in the Funeral Speech - an Athens where free and intelligent obedience is rendered to an equitable code of laws, where merit finds its way to the front, where military efficiency is found along with a free development in other directions and strangles neither commerce nor art.
When, then, on the 10th of June 1810, the prince's body was conveyed to Stockholm, and Fersen, in his official capacity as Riksnzarskalk, received it at the barrier and led the funeral cortege into the city, his fine carriage and his splendid robes seemed to the people an open derision of the general grief.
He lived the greater part of his life in Copenhagen, and died there in 1879; but his body, together with that of his wife, Ingibj®rg Einarsdottir, whom he had married in 1845, and who survived him only a few days, was taken to Reykjavik and given a public funeral.
Of the four souls of a Dakota, one is held to stay with the corpse, another in the village, a third goes into the air, while the fourth goes to the land of souls, where its lot may depend on its rank in this life, its sex, mode of death or sepulture, on the due observance of funeral ritual, or many other points (see Eschatology).
The archaeological museum is housed here on the ground floor; besides Roman and pre-Roman objects it contains fragments of the 9th century basilica of Santa Maria in Aurona, one of the first examples of vaulted Lombard architecture; the bas-reliefs of the ancient Porta Romana of Milan, representing the return of the Milanese in 1171 after the defeat of Barbarossa; the remains of the church of Santa Maria in Brera, the work of Balduccio da Pisa; the grandiose sepulchral monument of Bernabo Visconti formerly in the church of San Giovanni in Conca; the tomb of Regina della Scala, the wife of Bernabo; the funeral monument of the Rusca family; the great portal of the palace of Pigello Portinari, seat of the Banco Mediceo at Milan, a work of Michelozzo; a series of Renaissance sculptures, including works by Amadeo Mantegazza, Agostino Busti (surnamed Bambaia), including fragments of the tomb of Gaston de Foix.
With Gustave Callier, whose funeral in 1863 was made the occasion of a display of clerical intolerance, Laurent had much in common, and the efforts of the society were directed to the continuation of Callier's philanthropic schemes.
But this theory is repudiated by the best authorities; indeed its extreme precariousness at once becomes evident when it is remembered that, now at least, it is usual for religious fasts to precede rather than to follow sacrificial and funeral feasts, if observed at all in connexion with these.
Outside the house, beyond the gates, a group of undertakers, who hid whenever a carriage drove up, waited in expectation of an important order for an expensive funeral.
On the evening of the day the old prince died the Marshal went away, promising to return next day for the funeral.
Alpatych, arriving from the devastated Bald Hills estate, sent for his Dron on the day of the prince's funeral and told him to have twelve horses got ready for the princess' carriages and eighteen carts for the things to be removed from Bogucharovo.
When she began to tell him that all this had happened the day after her father's funeral, her voice trembled.
Way ahead on dusk 's horizon I could see the burning funeral pyre of animal carcasses below the Broad Hinton white horse.
In this Indian custom, widows would lie on their husband 's funeral pyre to die with them.
The present Earl Spencer was to deliver an astonishing rebuke to the royal family at Diana 's funeral.
Not far away giant funeral pyres send the last hopes of much of the farming industry reeking up to heaven.
Four days after my mother 's funeral I went scuba diving for the first time...
The conservation of a majesty scutcheon looted from Oliver Cromwell 's funeral.
Whitehead also preached John Wesley 's funeral sermon in City Road Chapel.
A busload of QPR fans passed us looking so solemn, you 'd have thought they were on their way to a funeral.
There are three funeral packages to choose from or you can select your own tailor-made package.
We had hundreds of telegrams of condolences and the funeral took place on Thursday.
With a physical death there is a public funeral, a ritual to help us through the unbearable pain of loss.
Another was a funeral urn for a Great Dane 's ashes.
More needs to be done to help the bereaved make well-informed choices about funeral arrangements.
Setting the movie scene in a funeral parlor was an immediate way to add pathos to the scene.
I didn't want to go to the funeral, but I knew I should, in order to offer my condolences to the family.
Parents-The child's parents may want to tell the story of their child's birth and life, either at the funeral service or online at a support site, such as SIDS Families.
Purchasing a festive themed basket just wouldn't be appropriate for a somber occasion, like a funeral.
You can order everything from funeral basket containers to complete gift basket kits with just the click of a mouse.
Estate planning also includes how to pay for potential medical and funeral expenses, lawyer fees, and unresolved debts.
Stay away from dowdy outfits that age you, or that look more appropriate in the board room or funeral parlor.
Present at the funeral were me, my brother, sister, stepfather and my aunt.
Later, he was on-hand at the Queen Mother's funeral.
Anna Nicole Smith's funeral was just how she would have wanted it -- glamorous, glitzy and the center of attention.
Entertainment Tonight cameras were the only media allowed into her funeral.
The Travoltas reportedly plan on bringing their son's body back to the States for memorial and funeral services.
Thompson. Depp has contributed a forward to one of Thompson's books, narrated his biography, and, when the author died in 2005, Depp paid for his extravagant funeral.
She dropped out of acting since her goal was to become a funeral director.
The last major royal occasion she was invited to was the Queen Mother's funeral in 2002, and she arrived on her own and sat apart from Prince Andrew and the rest of the royal family.
While your toddler probably won't wear dress clothes to the mall or to his daycare center, a few pieces of boys' dress clothes are invaluable for an occasion such as a wedding, funeral, first Communion, or anniversary party.
Of course, wearing a tie is expected if you're attending a formal occasion like a wedding, a funeral or a special date.
When attending a funeral, you should be dressed tastefully.
Proper funeral attire is a conservative dark suit and a white or light colored shirt with a subtle patterned or solid color tie.
Just be sure to leave the white dress at home if you're attending an engagement party, wedding or a funeral.
Another element of WillMaker lets you tell loved ones what type of funeral you would like.
You can designate a funeral location and even declare who you'd like to coordinate the ceremony.
Some financial experts suggest locking in arrangements ahead of time at today's prices, while others recommend creating a fund designed specifically to cover funeral expense.
Sometimes seniors who already have life insurance choose to take an additional policy if the death benefit payout of their original policy is low and not enough to pay for funeral, cremation or burial expenses.
Around this age, children are capable of taking part in rituals of death, such as visits with the deceased's family, the wake, and the funeral or memorial service.
Prior to participating in a visit or funeral, it is helpful to prepare the child for the experience by explaining the purpose of the visit, how long it will last, and what the child will experience there.
Some families release balloons after a funeral; others light candles and let them burn down; both activities express the release of the deceased from life to death.
Children who participate in a funeral by reading a poem or offering a gift are often better able to cope with their loss.
When he died of cancer, the owner of the restaurant, Carmen, came to the funeral.
Honoring the dead, also known as k'vod hamet, is the most important tenet of the Jewish funeral.
Preparations at a funeral home are very simple.
The reason for these simple funeral preparations are so that the bodies of the rich and the poor are viewed as equal in God's eyes.
Family members or individuals appointed by the funeral parlor, are expected to keep watch over the body until the funeral takes place.
The funeral usually begins by the members of the immediate family tearing a piece of their clothing to symbolize their loss of a loved one.
Male family members or male members of the Chevra Kaddisha then wheel the body out of the funeral home.
Reform Jews will recite the Psalm 23 as the body is removed from the funeral home.
This is symbolic of the close contact with the earth that is required at the funeral.
Shiva is the Jewish tradition of mourning after the funeral.
Finding a suitable Mobile memorial funeral home is not difficult since there are so many available, but this can still be a daunting task if you are in the process of grieving a recent loss.
Do not allow your sadness to render you incapable of realizing when an Alabama funeral home is trying to take advantage of your situation.
Mobile memorial funeral homes must adhere to the standards specified by the Alabama Preneed Funeral and Cemetery Act.
The purpose of this legislation and other laws is to protect all Alabama residents - in Mobile and elsewhere throughout the state - from paying exorbitant amounts of money for funeral expenses.
Funeral homes are required to present a concise listing of fees associated with a funeral.
Funeral homes must accept caskets and urns from other sources and cannot force clients to purchase these items directly through the funeral home.
Embalming is not a required service in most cases, and funeral homes cannot force clients to choose embalming in an effort to make a higher profit.
Any funeral home offering preneed funeral services (paying for the funeral ahead of time, long before it is actually needed) must submit financial documents to the state and maintain certification.
It is important to realize that there are laws in place to protect you from unscrupulous funeral homes.
There are plenty of suitable funeral homes within the Mobile, Alabama, area.
Although comparison shopping for funeral services is uncommon, most industry experts suggest visiting at least three funeral homes and asking for a price listing.
The mark-up on funeral essentials can be astronomical, so it is wise to compare between the various funeral homes.
Pine Crest Funeral Homes & Cemeteries offers a full range of services for what they dub "Death Care."
Ascension Funeral Services makes the guarantee that the funeral services they offer will never be overpriced and will always be to the desires of the clients.
Ascension Funeral Services is a member of the Better Business Bureau.
Serenity Funeral Homes claim to offer exceptional funeral services to every client regardless of the monetary amount clients can afford to pay.
This funeral home offers burial space free of charge to [[Images Arlington National Cemetery|veterans]] of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Mobile Memorial Gardens Funeral Home operates under the larger corporation of Dignity Memorial, which is the largest network of funeral service providers available.
This funeral home offers a satisfaction guarantee for services provided.
Whether you would like to utilize the services of a small funeral home or instead prefer a large funeral home, the city of Mobile has many different options available.
Funeral and memorial service needs vary from client to client.
If you have unique or specific requirements for a funeral within Mobile you will want to conduct an Internet search or consult a funeral director within the city.
What is making more people choose green burials over more traditional funeral procedures?
People who pre-arrange their own funeral can designate that they wish to have a land or ocean burial.
One of the reasons people choose this type of funeral is so that they are buried in a natural state that will do no harm to the local environment.
A body is kept cool in order to preserve it at the funeral home; those who choose an eco-burial are not embalmed.
Military funeral honors will be given to a current or former Marine upon request by the deceased soldier's family.
Taps will be played, either by a bugler attending the funeral service or from an audio recording.
Taps has been a part of military funeral traditions since 1891.
If your loved one served in any branch of the military (either on active duty or in the Reserves) and was either currently enlisted or honorably discharged, they are eligible for military funeral honors.
Your funeral director will know who to contact to make the necessary arrangements on behalf of your family.
Whether you choose this style of burial container or a more traditional option, his or her contribution to the service can be recognized if the family requests military honors at the funeral service.
After the animal has died, it is important to care for its remains, and if need be, hold a funeral or memorial service.
Allowing your child to help plan the funeral or memorial service is another way of helping them deal with the death of the pet.
Sending funeral thank you notes is a traditional part of funeral etiquette in the United States.
The practice of sending funeral thank you notes after the death of a loved one is no different, and the meaning behind it is often even more powerful.
Sending a thank you note after a funeral is a gesture that can mean so much, not only to the person sending the notes, but also to the recipient.
The time immediately following a funeral is a time for calm, and reflection and not everyone feels organized enough to contemplate the organization of passing on thanks.
The act of sending funeral thank you notes can extend as far as the individual wishes to send their gratitude.
Offer thanks to those who have sent sympathy and support cards, and to those who have donated practical help for the funeral and its arrangements.
Having gone through the upsetting motions of making complex funeral arrangements, often the last thing on a person's mind is to send out cards or notes of thanks to fellow mourners and well-wishers.
The etiquette of sending thank you cards suggests that this should be left no longer than two weeks after the funeral, if left longer than this, the gesture tends not to have the same impact.
As the process of conveying thanks after a funeral is such a popular tradition, there are various options available as to the methods of passing on thanks.
When a grandmother or grandfather dies, you might be responsible for planning the funeral or memorial service.
No one needs to carry the sole task of planning a funeral.
Do not use the immediate death or funeral to speak unkindly of him or her.
If you've never had to plan a funeral or pick out a casket before, you really can get lost in this decision-making process.
A death or funeral notice is a paid announcement often placed in the paper by family or the funeral home, and usually includes a picture and short sentiment.
An obituary is a free announcement, written by a newspaper reporter, with information supplied by the funeral home.
It usually includes full name, age, dates and places of birth and death, surviving family members and time, and the date and location of the funeral.
If you can pinpoint the city where the individual died, you may also be able to track down the funeral home and/or cemetery that handled the arrangements.
Chances are that if there was a religious funeral service, there may be a record of that at the church..
Obituaries can be written by funeral home representatives or friends of the deceased.
Using an obituary template to write a funeral or death notice can make the daunting task a bit simpler to complete.
In most cases, you or the funeral director fill in the information requested on a data sheet and an obituary writer from the newspaper will write up the information.
Online Funeral will help you design an obituary web page for a minimal price.
Helpful Obits offers obituary-writing services to funeral homes.
Funeral Printer has a complete written explanation on how to write an obituary.
The hospice workers can also begin assisting the parents with more practical concerns, including pregnancy and birth planning, funeral arrangements, and making hospital staff aware of the family's wishes for their medical care.
He is the one who helps with funeral arrangements when the female is too distraught.
See her advice on choosing the right personalized pet memorial as well as planning advice for a funeral for your beloved pet.
Also, check in your area for pet funeral parlors and pet cemeteries.
If you want to find out where you can design a casket locally, contact funeral homes for information.
You can also order the casket online and have it delivered to the funeral home.
If literature is foreign to you, finding the right poem for a funeral may be exceedingly difficult.
Consider the time you spend perusing through poetry for the deceased's funeral a gift.
In the end, you may not find something that all the mourners agree was the best poem for the funeral, but the cathartic benefits of poetry will have soothed your soul.
If you are preplanning your own funeral or are making final arrangements for a loved one, make sure you understand all of the military cemetery's eligibility requirements.
However, each deceased person's identity must be confirmed before funeral arrangements are finalized.
A detailed list of Arlington National Cemetery burial rites including costs, headstone information, military honors, and assignment of gravesites can be found under Funeral Information on the Arlington National Cemetery website.
Your local funeral home can help with the planning, often being the go-between for the family and the cemetery.
When attending a funeral or burial service, it's customary for the immediate family to formally receive guests as they arrive.
During the memorial service and funeral, the family will be too distracted and overwhelmed to make arrangements for a later date, but they may realize they could use an extra set of hands in the days that follow.
For followers of Judaism and their friends, a list of Jewish funeral traditions can help mourners understand the religious customs surrounding death.
Many of the Jewish funeral rituals focus on preparing the body as naturally as possible and providing family members and friends with sufficient means to mourn the deceased.
Many of the rituals surrounding Jewish funerals, and which are found on this list of Jewish funeral traditions, are carried out by a burial society known as the chevra kadisha.
The funeral rites are traditionally held at the synagogue or funeral home.
Unlike some cultures, the funeral is a simple affair with no music, flowers, or other adornments.
Following the funeral, mourners accompany the deceased to the cemetery.
After the funeral, focus shifts from the deceased to those mourning him.
It is very important to pay close attention to casket size when planning a funeral.
Funeral directors usually do all they can to allay the family's fears and give them peace of mind that all will go well with the funeral and burial.
While planning her funeral, the funeral home director assured the family that the deceased would fit into the oversized casket being ordered.
The funeral director assured them that she would fit.
When the time came during the funeral to close the casket, the funeral assistant and pallbearers were struggling to latch it closed.
Hospital, medical, hospice, cemetery or funeral home -Your life will be surrounded by the energy of death.
Genealogy Today - On this website, you can search 22,700 funeral cards, which will have a death date and name of the funeral home.
A check with undertakers, church leaders or funeral home directors in the area may aid in locating the records.
Each of these sites cover multiple states.Family Search Record Search has multiple databases from around the world, including death and funeral records from California, Georgia, Massachusetts and Texas.
Records such as death certificates, obituaries, and funeral home records can be a gold mine of valuable information.
While death certificates will tell you when and where a person died, you can also glean a variety of information from obituaries and funeral home records.
The site is nicely designed, very easy to use, and includes links to unusual genealogy resources such as funeral cards and business cards.
Today, the company provides memorial diamonds to families around the country through partnerships with funeral homes as well as through direct orders.
Funeral home business partners can help bereaved families initiate this process with minimal complications, or if no business partner is available, interested individuals may contact the company directly about creating a memorial diamond.
The site features films like Four Weddings and a Funeral, Calendar Girls, Wimbledon, and Atonement on their listing.
A local undertaker had mummified him and placed him on display at his funeral home.
After he was discovered at the Nu-Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, California, he was given a proper funeral in Oklahoma.
When John died, everyone who attended his funeral heard the witch laugh and sing a drinking song.
Another story states she was on her way home from a funeral when she was struck and killed.
A self-employed business owner who is the sole breadwinner for a family of six needs much more life insurance than an unmarried man who is simply looking for a way to make sure his funeral expenses will be paid after his death.
For example, if the reason you are flying is to get to a loved one's funeral, ask the airline about bereavement rates.
It also pays out a funeral benefit if the accident caused one or more fatalities.
Things to consider include mortgage payments, college tuition, funeral expenses, and basic living expenses that will be taken care of in the event of your death.
A low death benefit, on the other hand, such as a policy designed only to pay for funeral expenses, can be inexpensive.
If the accident resulted in one or more fatalities, the bodily injury liability portion of the policy pays out a benefit for funeral expenses.
If the accident was a fatal one, the bodily injury portion of the policy pays a certain amount for funeral expenses.