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- Nov 07, 2020
Funeral Quotes
On grief, ritual, and the people we bury.
These quotes treat the funeral as both ritual and revelation, one voice recalls growing up in a funeral home run by mortician parents, another admits delaying a father's funeral for a cricket match. Grief here is personal, sometimes even a little uncomfortable.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
- Dinner Party
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- Nov 07, 2020
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Selfie' is the word du jour, and it became cause celebre at Nelson Mandela's funeral when the Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt took a selfie with U.S. President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron.
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- Nov 07, 2020
An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.
- Belated
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- Nov 07, 2020
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a fascinated observer of grand public funerals since I was a kid, starting with the life-altering black-and-white images of President John F. Kennedy's funeral.
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- Nov 07, 2020