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the only party where everyone agrees the guest of honor won't show.
means Funerals are the formal ceremonies held to honor and dispose of a dead person's body, usually gathering the living to mourn, remember, and say goodbye.
from From Latin 'funus' (plural 'funera'), meaning a funeral procession or burial rite — a word whose deeper roots are murky, possibly tied to ideas of smoke and the funeral pyre. It reached English through the Latin adjective 'funeralis,' arriving via Old French in the late medieval period as 'funeral.'
- jazz origins
- New Orleans bands march sad, then play upbeat home
- viking myth
- Flaming boat burials are mostly Hollywood invention
- green burial
- Mushroom suits now digest bodies into clean soil
- professional mourners
- Some cultures still hire criers to weep loudly
- victorian photos
- Families posed the dead for keepsake portraits
for instance
new orleans jazz funeral — traditional parade with brass bands in louisiana since 18th century