It was the kind of frame that is only put around the photograph of a dead person.

The Greek god Hermes, the messenger of the gods, would take the dead soul of a person to the underworld ( sometimes called Hades or the House of Hades ).

" If there is any doubt as to whether the sick person has reached the use of reason, or is dangerously ill, or is dead, this sacrament is to be administered ".

Consumption of a person from within the same community is called endocannibalism ; ritual cannibalism of the recently deceased can be part of the grieving process, or a way of guiding the souls of the dead into the bodies of living descendants.

In his 2006 homily for Corpus Christi, Pope Benedict XVI noted the similarity between the Christian story of the resurrection and pagan myths of dead and resurrected gods: " In these myths, the soul of the human person, in a certain way, reached out toward that God made man, who, humiliated unto death on a cross, in this way opened the door of life to all of us.

Some are specified by the dead person beforehand, others chosen by those responsible for the burial.

Sudangee or last offices being performed on a dead person, illustration from 1867

Robert Wise's film Audrey Rose ( 1977 ) for example, deals with a man who claims that his daughter is the reincarnation of another dead person.

safeguarding as if by inoculation by administering weakened or dead pathogens to a healthy person or animal with the intent of conferring immunity against a targeted form of a related disease agent.

While Alden did not participate in the fight ( which left one person dead ) he was the highest-ranking member from Plymouth that the Massachusetts Bay colonists found to arrest.

* 1904 – Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10, 000 people homeless and one person dead.

The Phoenix Force allows Jean to revive, absorb, rechannel, and preserve the life-force of any kind of life-form, meaning that she can take life energy from one person and give it to others, heal herself with the same life energy, or even resurrect the dead, since the Phoenix is the sum of all life and death.

According to the tenets of Vodou, a dead person can be revived by a bokor, or sorcerer.

In some communities it is believed that a dead person can be turned into a zombie by a small child.

Being completely devoid of sensation and thought, a dead person cannot miss being alive.

Crucifixion is an ancient method of deliberately painful execution in which the condemned person is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang until dead.

Organ donation is the donation of biological tissue or an organ of the human body, from a living or dead person to a living recipient in need of a transplantation.

Category: Fiction narrated by a dead person

Wrath may persist long after the person who did another a grievous wrong is dead.

This theory would also apply if a person went back in time to shoot himself, because in the past he would be dead as in the future he would be alive and well.

There are many cases cited where a person would be alive and apparently healthy in the morning and dead by nightfall.

One reason for this popularity is the myth's primary religious meaning, which implies that any dead person can reach a pleasant afterlife.

)" > occidetur (= occidātur ), a Classical synonym ( Old French occir, Italian uccidere, Occitan / Catalan aucire, Spanish occiso " dead person ", Romanian ucide " to kill ".

Category: Fiction narrated by a dead person

* The dauphin appears in The Grave Watchers by Missouri Dalton as a watchman ( person who has risen from the dead ) and is considered to be in control of the French government from the shadows.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

The Macmillan government might be willing to let him go, but he has been dead seventy-eight years and even the Soviet morticians could not make him look presentable.

Her skin was stretched so tight that her cheekbones stuck out, and if looks could kill, Wally would have been dead.

`` What could I do with your lousy dead bodies??

Only if the corpse had been properly embalmed and entombed in a mastaba, could the dead live again in the Fields of Yalu and accompany the Sun on its daily ride.

In these poems Bragi could be either a god or a dead hero in Valhalla.

The new rule allowed the entire play to complete, justified on the grounds that the ball was dead and that all runners could freely advance, thus granting the full allotment of HR and RBI to the batter, as we know it today.

Tests for traces of explosives on the clothes of eleven of the dead proved negative, while those of the remaining man could not be tested as they had already been washed.

In Cadillac Motor Car Co. v. Johnson, ( decided in 1915 by the federal appeals court for New York and several neighboring states ), the court held that a car owner could not recover for injuries from a defective wheel, when the automobile owner had a contract only with the automobile dealer and not with the manufacturer, even though there was " no question that the wheel was made of dead and ‘ dozy ‘ wood, quite insufficient for its purposes.

But history in those days could not be objectively collected or written, so sometimes amounted to committing whispered gossip to parchment, often years after the events, when everyone with a vested interest was dead.

According to Cassius Dio, living Emperors could be worshipped as divine in the east and dead Emperors could be worshipped as divine in Rome.

The belief was founded on the idea that the dead could only leave through the way they entered.

Originally, however, the Egyptians believed that only the pharaoh had a ba, and only he could become one with the gods ; dead commoners passed into a dark, bleak realm that represented the opposite of life.

The golem could then be deactivated by removing the aleph ( א ) in emet, thus changing the inscription from ' truth ' to ' death ' ( met מת, " dead ").

Their last meeting was in 1658 at Hampton Court, though they could not speak for long or meet again because of the Protector's worsening illness — Fox even wrote that " he looked like a dead man ".

Early Indonesians were animists who honoured the spirits of the dead as their souls or life force could still help the living.

She assisted them by procuring supplies for their San Francisco hideout and birth certificates of dead infants that could be used for identification purposes.

Much wealth was buried with the dead, and ritualistic mourning could be as extreme as walking on a stick hunchback for three years in a posture of mourning.

The Duchess was dead at the time of the island's sighting by Cook, but Cook had set out from England in 1772 and could not have known of her May 1773 death.

The toll eventually reached 168 confirmed dead, not including an unmatched leg that could have belonged to a possible, unidentified 169th victim.

Some Christians believed that the resurrection of the dead on judgement day requires that the body be buried whole facing east so that the body could rise facing God.

Hesiod refers to the island of the " happy dead " and it is the Elysion, where according to an old Minoan belief, the departed could have a different, but happier existence.

The greatest concern with this method is that the weight of the extra material could exceed the dead load capacity of the roof structure and cause collapse.