In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Thus, you avoid headaches when an employee wants off for his fourth cousin's funeral.

In some countries the trend has gone further than others: Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela are displaying open sympathy for Castroism, and there is no country -- save the Dominican Republic whose funeral services we recently arranged -- where Castroism and Anti-Americanism does not prevent the government from unqualifiedly espousing the American cause.

A funeral parlor chain was indicted for price-cutting.

Octavius delivered the funeral oration for his grandmother.

The 1982 science fiction film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan used " Amazing Grace " amid a context of Christian symbolism, to memorialize the death of Mr. Spock but more practically, because the song has become " instantly recognizable to many in the audience as music that sounds appropriate for a funeral " according to a Star Trek scholar.

Caligula appointed an annual day each year in Rome, for people to offer funeral sacrifices to honor their late relatives.

In the funeral games at the pyre of Patroclus, he contended with Odysseus and Antilochus for the prize in the footrace ; but Athena, who was hostile towards him and favored Odysseus, made him stumble and fall, so that he won only the second prize.

Algardi's first major commission came about in 1634, when Cardinal Ubaldini ( Medici ) contracted for a funeral monument for his great-uncle, Pope Leo XI, the third of the Medici popes, who had reigned for less than a month in 1605.

The power of testamentary disposition is basically limited to one-third of the net estate ( i. e. the assets remaining after the payment of funeral expenses and debts ), providing for every member of the family by allotting fixed shares not only to wives and children, but also to fathers and mothers.

* 2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.

Capone cried at his brother's funeral and ordered the closure of all the speakeasies in Cicero for a day as a mark of respect.

The three funerals share similarities regarding the offerings for the dead and the change in theme through the description of each funeral.

The funeral mirrors the use of funeral offerings for the dead with extravagant possessions in Scyld's funeral.

An additional argument for viewing this passage as a funeral lies in the statement, “ tumbling hawk swift horse ”.

" for their leader's funeral.

Beowulf's funeral is the fourth fitt of the poem and acts as an epilogue for the hero who is the " most gracious and fair-minded, kindest to his people and keenest to win fame.

Commissioned by Ammannati for funeral of his wife poetess Laura Battiferri ( painted as old woman with the book ).

Then Via called to say they had decided to cremate her -- as they had Ellen, the thought leaped to my mind -- and did I want to meet her at the funeral home the next morning.

If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again.

Coleman's former manager Dion Mial was involved initially, but withdrew after Coleman's 1999 will, which named Mial as executor and directed that his wake be "... conducted by those with no financial ties to me and can look each other in the eyes and say they really cared personally for Gary Colemen ", turned out to be superseded by a later one replacing Mial with Gray, and directing "... that there be no funeral service, wake, or other ceremony memorializing my passing.

After the death of Harry Secombe from cancer, he said, " I'm glad he died before me, because I didn't want him to sing at my funeral.

In a 1999 interview that was first televised in 2006, when Ratt's Behind the Music episode finally aired, Crosby stated, " When I die, nobody cry at my funeral, in fact let's all have a party ; I've lived the life of ten men.

* I trust that the labour and hazard of an investigation-of which the smallest results have been slowly pieced together, in the pressure of arduous avocations, under grinding penurious apprehensions, at rise of morn, at dewy eve, in the shadows of night, under the watchful eye of one whom it were superfluous to call Demon, combined with the struggle of parental Poverty to turn it, when completed, to the right account, may be as the sprinkling of a few drops of sweet water on my funeral pyre.

" " It is for neither of these ," the man replied ; " I am dead and am compelled because of my great sins to build my funeral pyre every day.

She wrote instructions for her funeral during an illness in 1841 at Sudbury Hall: " I die in all humility ", she wrote, " we are alike before the throne of God, and I request therefore that my mortal remains be conveyed to the grave without pomp or state … to have as private and quiet a funeral as possible.

* Tilly is mentioned in Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children in the chapter where his funeral is held and where Mother Courage, referring to it, says her famous lines " I don't care if this funeral is a historical event, to me the mutilation of my daughter's face is a historical event.

At his funeral, a Roman Catholic priest, Father Farrelly, was heard to say, " May my soul be with Beddell's ".

It is said that after her mother's funeral, Catherine picked up a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary and kissed it ; saying " Now you will be my mother.

* The Notorious B. I. G in his song " Suicidal Thoughts " said, " Should I die on the train tracks like Ramo in Beat Street / People at my funeral frontin ' like they miss me.

Writing to Alecsandri's wife Paulina, he asked: " I could not be present at his funeral, you'll allow me, my lady, since I have unable to kiss him either alive or dead, to at least kiss his grave!

"& that no mourners walk behind me at my funeral.

Her husband survived her by four years, and was buried beside her ; in his will Richard requests to be buried " near to the tomb of Eleanor de Lancaster, my wife ; and I desire that my tomb be no higher than hers, that no men at arms, horses, hearse, or other pomp, be used at my funeral, but only five torches ... as was about the corpse of my wife, be allowed.

James Montagu preached his funeral sermon, taking as his text Joshua 1. 2, ‘ Moses my servant is dead ’.

"... now alone at a funeral home ... the questions ... the softly spoken suggestions ... repeated, and repeated ... because ... because during all the arrangements, through my mind there ran a constant rerun, a line she spoke on radio ... on the brotherhood of man ... in her casual, malapropian style ... " we are all cremated equal " ... they kept urging for an answer ... a wooden casket?

She stated, " Strange though it may seem, my daughter's funeral was probably the proudest day of my life.

* In the 1956 film Around the World in Eighty Days, starring David Niven, Passepartout ( played by Cantinflas ) rescues a princess captured by the Thuggee and sentenced to burn to death in the funeral pyre with her deceased husband.

Unnamed White House employees stated that the night before the funeral they heard Mrs. Harding talking to her dead husband.

Ruth's second husband was the bass-baritone McHenry Boatwright, whom she met when he sang at her brother's funeral.

In 1177 he performed the funeral services for William of Montferrat, husband of Baldwin IV's sister Sibylla, when the patriarch of Jerusalem, Amalric of Nesle, was too sick to attend.

A visitor apologizes for being late to the meeting as her husband had died shortly before and she had to make the proper arrangements for the funeral, which consists in burial at sea.

In 1985, a respectful 75-minute film was broadcast in which Tatyana ( not even seen in public until Andropov's funeral ) reads love poems written by her husband.

When her husband died in 1504, Margaret Pole was a widow with five children, a limited amount of land inherited from her husband, no salary and no prospects ; Henry VII paid for Sir Richard's funeral.

Elizabeth, through her funeral oration ( years later ) by her second husband Sir Thomas Higgons vigorously denied this.

Her husband was killed by a lightning bolt at the siege of Thebes and she threw herself on his funeral pyre and died.

Pliny records that Arria's son died at the same time as Caecina Paetus was quite ill. She apparently arranged and planned the child's funeral without her husband even knowing of his death.

Although sati, or the practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband ’ s funeral pyre, was officially outlawed by India ’ s British rulers in 1829, the rite persists.

Romana erected this undated funeral inscription to her husband ( whose name is lost ) who died as a praetor-designate.

Aboudihaj's husband also filed a lawsuit against Norwood, suing her for an undisclosed amount of financial relief to cover medical and funeral expenses, as well as legal costs and other damages.

His funeral was attended by the Prime Minister Billy Hughes and the Premier of New South Wales Jack Lang ( who was the husband of Lawson's sister-in-law Hilda Bredt ), as well as thousands of citizens.

The service included the funeral rite of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church officiated by Archbishop Yurij, Bishop of Toronto, and the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and a eulogy from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's chief correspondent, Peter Mansbridge, and Adrienne Clarkson, by that time the sitting governor general, paid tribute to one of her predecessors via video, as she and her husband were en route to spend Christmas with Canadian troops stationed in the Persian Gulf.

In 1993, it was revived by the Spanish-born Queen Fabiola for the funeral of her husband, King Baudouin I of Belgium.

Her funeral was held on 5 November 2004, at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and she was interred next to her husband, Prince Henry, and her elder son, Prince William, in the Royal Burial Ground at Frogmore.

This may take a tragic form-' I saw no prospect of its ending except with death-the death of one of three people ' - or alternately a comic one: ' A man at the funeral of a friend's wife, with whom he has been carrying on an affair, breaks into tears and finally becomes hysterical, while the husband remains impassive.

Murders are typically carried out by burning the bride to death, a practice influenced by the older custom of sati, where a mourning widow would die by throwing herself onto the burning funeral pyre of her late husband.

In India, there is often an elaborate ceremony during the funeral of a widow's husband, including smashing the bangles, removing the bindi as well as any colorful attire, and requiring the woman to wear white clothes, the color of mourning.

Earlier it was compulsory to wear all white after the husband was dead, and even a tradition known as sati was practiced, where the newly widowed woman would throw her body onto her husband's burning funeral pyre and immolate herself.

This was the custom of burning a widow alive on the funeral pyre of her husband.

Ten days after the funeral, Mrs. White, almost mad with grief, asks her husband to wish Herbert back to life with the paw.