The funeral service was in the house, the Methodist minister, how clean and glistening his eyeglasses and his neat body standing beside that coffin with that doll inside, a stranger speaking to strangers the old sacred words, and the rain drumming incessantly in accompaniment, seven days of relentless rain that turned the ground to mud so the burial had to be postponed.

Egyptians also believed that being mummified and put in a sarcophagus ( an ancient Egyptian " coffin " carved with complex symbols and designs, as well as pictures and hieroglyphs ) was the only way to have an afterlife.

He was buried in his own kirkyard, although local legends claim that the fairies took his body away, and the coffin contains only stones.

Two months later, on 1 March 1978, Chaplin's coffin was dug up and stolen from its grave by two unemployed mechanics, Polish Roman Wardas and Bulgarian Gantcho Ganev, in an attempt to extort money from Chaplin's widow, Oona Chaplin.

Ganev and Wardas were caught in a large police operation in May, and Chaplin's coffin was found buried in a field in the nearby village of Noville.

He had to remain seated in the freezing cold as the coffin was carried, having tired himself out by standing at the rehearsal the previous day.

" Chiang's body was put in a copper coffin and temporarily interred at his favorite residence in Cihu, Dasi, Taoyuan.

Two days earlier, he told his wife, Dani, that he had a bad dream that he was being carried in a coffin following a heart attack.

Tradition also held that the coffin should be lifted and lowered in three different directions as it was carried from the house to confuse a possible draugr's sense of direction.

Thomas ' coffin was carried by six friends from the village.

Campbell was interred in Coniston cemetery on 12 September 2001 after his coffin was carried around the lake.

A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building.

Elizabeth's coffin was carried downriver at night to Whitehall, on a barge lit with torches.

At her funeral on 28 April, the coffin was taken to Westminster Abbey on a hearse drawn by four horses hung with black velvet.

Westminster was surcharged with multitudes of all sorts of people in their streets, houses, windows, leads and gutters, that came out to see the obsequy, and when they beheld her statue lying upon the coffin, there was such a general sighing, groaning and weeping as the like hath not been seen or known in the memory of man.

* 587, in the 4th month: Yōmei died and his body was placed in a coffin, but not buried.

Shortly after he returned home, Frederick Douglass died of a massive heart attack or stroke in Washington, D. C. His funeral was held at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church where thousands passed by his coffin paying tribute.

His funeral was magnificent, with his Viennese subjects respectfully filing past his coffin in the chapel of Hofburg Palace

In 1953 the coffin was moved to Burg Hohenzollern, where it remained until 1991, when it was finally laid to rest on the steps of the altar in the Kaiser Friedrich Mausoleum in the Church of Peace on the palace grounds of Sanssouci.

Discovered by accident by the Reisner expedition, the burial was intact, though the carefully sealed coffin proved to be empty.

His posthumous honors included his name being placed into the following: the Carmen Saliare ; the Curule chairs ; placed as an honorary seat of the Brotherhood of Augustus and his coffin was crowned by oak-wreaths.

The coffin, almost buried in flowers, had been put in the large room.

The book ends with Joseph's remains being " put in a coffin in Egypt.

Fans of Cream hoped for a full-scale tour, but a statement from Cream's publicist days after the last performance put the nail in that particular coffin, when it was announced that Cream would not tour the United States.

After the fall of communism, an excavation attempt was made at the Vrana Palace, in which only Boris's heart was found, as it had been put in a glass cylinder outside the coffin.

We made a rough coffin and put his body in the ambulance.

At the chapter's close a fight breaks out, whiskey splashes on Finnegan's corpse, and “ the dead Finnegan rises from his coffin bawling for whiskey and his mourners put him back to rest ”, persuading him that he is better off where he is.

His body ( along with those of the other rebels ) was put in a mass grave without a coffin.

However, a legend says that Amélia was very faithful to Bilac: she would never marry and, when Bilac died, she put a lock of her hair in his coffin.

" Dr. Bell, sometime bishop of Worcester, was buried with due respect August 13, at Clerkenwell, with a sermon preached by Nicholas Harpsfield ; he was put into his coffin, like a bishop, with the mitre and other pontificalibus ; his funeral was illuminated with two white branches, two dozen staff torches, and four great tapers, the altar " < sup >( Strype, Memorials, Vol.

In 1887, Paulding County, Ohio residents put the final nail in the canal system's coffin: unhappy with mosquitoes breeding in the stagnant waters of Six Mile Reservoir, they cut the dike and drained it in the Reservoir War.

The American Civil War put the nails in the coffin.

It is worth noting that in Hitler's will of May 2, 1938, written the day before he left Germany for his state visit to Rome, Hitler instructed that his body was to be put in a coffin similar to that of the other martyrs and placed in the Ehrentempel next to the Führerbau.

When they reached the coffin ( in London the graves were quite shallow ), they broke open the coffin, put a rope around the corpse and dragged it out.

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Rob Wilfong appeared to put the final nail in Boston's coffin with an RBI double in the seventh, and the Angels led 5 – 2 after eight innings.

Dent and Doyle pushed the score to 5 – 2 in the sixth with RBI singles and Reggie Jackson put the final nail in the coffin with a tremendous two-run blast in the seventh off his Game 2 nemesis, Bob Welch.

" The strategy was a failure, and the Great Depression put the final nail in the company's coffin.

However, success under the new moniker proved as elusive as ever as and the grunge rock revolution put the final nail in the band's coffin.

His relics were first put in a coffin made of an oak trunk and then translated to the abbey of Centula.

Rosella can be killed by not grabbing onto the gravedigger's shovel, which he offers her to grab on to, if she takes too long she will fall ( it is not shown only implied ) and the elevator will be buried along with her, taking too long to escape from the coffin and being impaled ( also not shown ) by the Deadfall bones, being crushed by Malicia's gargoyle if she turns the Troll King back to normal, being caught by the Boogeyman if she does not put on her black veil to disguise herself, or being pulled underground if she awakens a corpse with the gravedigger's horn.