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  2. Funeral - Wikipedia

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    A memorial service (or celebration of life) is a funerary ceremony that is performed without the remains of the deceased person. [3] In both a closed casket funeral [4] and a memorial service, photos of the deceased representing stages of life would be displayed on an altar. Relatives or friends would give out eulogies in both services as well.

  3. Kadayawan Festival - Wikipedia

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    Third week of August. The Kadayawan Festival is an annual festival in the city of Davao in the Philippines. The festival is a celebration of life, a thanksgiving for the gifts of nature, the wealth of culture, the bounties of harvest and serenity of living. The festival was previously known as Apo Duwaling Festival, named after three icons of ...

  4. Toast (honor) - Wikipedia

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    Toast (honor) A toast is a ritual during which a drink is taken as an expression of honor or goodwill. The term may be applied to the person or thing so honored, the drink taken, or the verbal expression accompanying the drink. Thus, a person could be "the toast of the evening", for whom someone "proposes a toast" to congratulate and for whom a ...

  5. Wake (ceremony) - Wikipedia

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    Wake (ceremony) Mira qué bonita era ("Look How Lovely She Was") by Julio Romero de Torres, 1895. A wake, funeral reception[1] or visitation is a social gathering associated with death, held before a funeral. Traditionally, a wake involves family and friends keeping watch over the body of the dead person, usually in the home of the deceased.

  6. Ceremony - Wikipedia

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    Ceremony. Ceremonial at court during Prinsjesdag. A ceremony (UK: / ˈsɛrəməni /, US: / ˈsɛrəˌmoʊni /) is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion. The word may be of Etruscan origin, via the Latin caerimonia. [1]

  7. Procession - Wikipedia

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    Processions played a prominent part in the great festivals of Greece, where they were always religious in character. The games were either opened or accompanied by more or less elaborate processions and sacrifices, while processions from the earliest times formed part of the worship of the old nature gods, as those connected with the cult of Dionysus and the Phallic processions, and later ...

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