A funeral is a ceremony marking a person's death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour. These customs vary widely between cultures, and between religious affiliations within cultures. In some cultures the dead are venerated; this is commonly called ancestor worship. The word funeral comes from the Latin funus, which had a variety of meanings, including the corpse and the funerary rites themselves.
Funeral rites are as old as the human culture itself, predating modern homo sapiens, to at least 300,000 years ago.[1][2] For example, in the Shanidar cave in Iraq, in Pontnewydd Cave in Wales and other sites across Europe and the Near East,[2] Neanderthal skeletons have been discovered with a characteristic layer of pollen, which suggests that Neanderthals buried the dead with gifts of flowers.[1] This has been interpreted as suggesting that Neanderthals believed in an afterlife.[1][2]
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Alexandria Town Talk
Funeral services for Buster A. Harper will be at 1 pm Thursday, March 11, 2010 at the Beulah Baptist Church in Cheneyville. Burial will follow in the church ...
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several times that Buff would have a lovely view of Mt Timp even if it s a second best mountain he grew up around the Tetons and I think we were all sad not to be able to bury him there The funeral was held in the morning and it was freezing everyone was gathered around the casket with spare blankets from cars or simply dressed in shivers As I listened to the talks a
