Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his. His was a great and beautiful spirit, he was a man – all man, from his crown to his footsoles. My reverence for him was deep and genuine.
Mark TwainStichwörter: inspirational friend friendship love death eulogy respect grief honor praise funeral beautiful reverence brotherhood ingersoll robert-g-ingersoll robert-green-ingersoll robert-ingersoll
At first are moving tombs on the surface of the surface of the earth; then we become static tombs in the brims of the cemetary soil; waiting to become eternal people in fellowship for God. I know there is another fellowship in heaven!
Israelmore AyivorStichwörter: god heaven sin die burial grave eternal-life jesus-christ repentance fellowship graveyard funeral christ cemetary tomb everlasting-life repent rip rest-in-peace ressurection death-died i-shall-see-go resurrect till-we-meet-again
I am so sorry to hear of Asher's passing. I will miss his scientific insight and advice, but even more his humor and stubborn integrity. I remember when one of his colleagues complained about Asher's always rejecting his manuscript when they were sent to him to referee. Asher said in effect, 'You should thank me. I am only trying to protect your reputation.' He often pretended to consult me, a fellow atheist, on matters of religious protocol.
{Charles H. Bennett's letter written to the family of Israeli physicist, Asher Peres}
Stichwörter: friend friendship death atheism eulogy sad atheist funeral ibm asher-peres computer-scientist peres
To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaStichwörter: lies death conformity eulogy funeral tradition insincerity deceased
A funeral is no place for secrets.
Mitch AlbomStichwörter: loss death secrets funeral grieving
*Paying one’s last respects* is about the payer, not the paid. (Who attends the funeral — and who doesn’t — is the deceased’s last worry.)
Mokokoma MokhonoanaStichwörter: death friendships funeral
*Live fast, die young, and, leave a good looking corpse.* is dumb. When dead, looks matters not. (Furthermore, the corpse will only look good for a day, or, twelve.)
Mokokoma MokhonoanaStichwörter: death looks funeral young corpse self-consciousness
Another site of Leftist struggle [other than Detroit] that has parallels to New Orleans: Palestine. From the central role of displacement to the ways in which culture and community serve as tools of resistance, there are illuminating comparisons to be made between these two otherwise very different places.
In the New Orleans Black community, death is commemorated as a public ritual (it's often an occasion for a street party), and the deceased are often also memorialized on t-shirts featuring their photos embellished with designs that celebrate their lives. Worn by most of the deceased's friends and family, these t-shirts remind me of the martyr posters in Palestine, which also feature a photo and design to memorialize the person who has passed on. In Palestine, the poster's subjects are anyone who has been killed by the occupation, whether a sick child who died at a checkpoint or an armed fighter killed in combat. In New Orleans, anyone with family and friends can be memorialized on a t-shift. But a sad truth of life in poor communities is that too many of those celebrate on t-shirts lost their lives to violence. For both New Orleans and Palestine, outsiders often think that people have become so accustomed to death by violence that it has become trivialized by t-shirts and posters.
While it's true that these traditions wouldn't manifest in these particular ways if either population had more opportunities for long lives and death from natural causes, it's also far from trivial to find ways to celebrate a life. Outsiders tend to demonize those killed--especially the young men--in both cultures as thugs, killers, or terrorists whose lives shouldn't be memorialized in this way, or at all. But the people carrying on these traditions emphasize that every person is a son or daughter of someone, and every death should be mourned, every life celebrated.
Stichwörter: life non-violence death martyr struggle community new-orleans funeral resistance civil-disobedience celebration palestine second-line
And a funeral, I found out, is like a wedding in reverse, with less time to plan.
J. Lincoln FennStichwörter: death-and-dying funeral death-of-a-loved-one
My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.
Simona PanovaStichwörter: romance soul melancholy sadness death dead crying mystery sacrifice grave gothic young-adult dying graveyard funeral cry nightmare ghost cemetery sincere skies nightmarish odda
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