Funeral

but, to be really ready for what the future will bring, you’ll want to talk with a funeral planner about pre-need arrangements. The Whys and Hows Talking about death is usually considered inappropriate, but we can’t deny the fact that we’ll all pass away at some point. So, instead of skirting around the topic of death, it’s often advisable to plan for it as early as possible. One step you can take is to get a funeral prearrangement plan, which allows you to spread the cost of your interment…

I sat in my car waiting, as all the mourners started to flee the funeral- my funeral. ~~ Eleven years ago after arriving to Australia from Burundi, Africa, I met my husband Kalala Balenga, who was a recent refugee from Congo. We had the same social worker who helped us get settled. Since I spoke Swahili, and Kalala spoke English, our social worker made us spend a lot of time together, so I could learn English. Eventually we started to fall in love and ended up getting married, and moved to…

The poems, “Funeral Blues”, by W.H. Auden and “From Long Distance”, by Tony Harrison are about the feelings of sadness and mourning over the loss of a loved one. Both poems reflect how much death affects people, as well as how people are unable to let go of a loved one. The poet of the first poem is frustrated and expresses feelings of love as well as anger towards the death of his loved one. The second poem is about how the poet’s father cannot forget about his wife and therefore conveys the…

Funeral orations are usually consisting of praises and admirations to the people who passed away. However, there were two famous funeral orations that not only praised the people who sacrificed, also gave an important inspiration about democracy and equality. Both Pericles’ funeral oration and President Lincoln’s Gettysburg address were spoken for the soldiers who died in the battlefield. Moreover, many people claimed Lincoln imitates the ideas of Pericles’ funeral oration. Nevertheless, both…

“ Romans, countrymen, and lovers!” (III, ii, 13) is what Brutus said at the beginning of the speech for Caesar’s funeral. Marc Antony said something close to that as well. That is how they got the people’s attention during the funeral. The speeches were similar in certain ways, while other sections were different. Brutus spoke more about honour, and Antony said more stuff about ambition. Brutus spoke first, he started with honour. Therefore, he says to “believe and respect him with honor”…

The Funeral Oration of Pericles is a document which contains a funeral speech made by Pericles, a prominent Athenian politician. This speech was dictated, edited and transcribed by Thucydides, an Athenian historian and soldier in his written work, History of the Peloponnesian War. The speech was given at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE) and Thucydides fought in the war and lived and therefore wrote his works during the time of Pericles. The speech was made to…

The Campaigns of Alexander the Great by Arrian is easily comparable to The Funeral Oration of Pericles by Thucydides since these two primary sources exemplify the maximum power of the pre-Roman leaders in antiquity. Alexander the Great and Pericles both had complete authority and admiration of their men, but both likewise encountered troubling periods amongst their men. In the case of Alexander, his kinsmen were far from home, and were questioning why they persisted to fight under, and with,…

Who’s Funeral? As the beautiful day came to an end, the night fall came with and when it came the mist from the swamp came through surrounding everything near impossible to see. Everything dark, mere pitch black but only the light of the mansion that lied there peaked from the blanket of shadows you were suffocated in. The lights start to draw you in, no where else to go, you come closer seeing a path to the two big doors ahead. As you stand in front of the doors you feel guilt and sorrow in…

On May 5, 2003 my life changed forever. It was so painful for my family and I couldn’t bear the pain. It was my father’s funeral day. I remembered it like it was yesterday. I had on a white flower dress with tear drops on it. My hair was long and in two little pony tails with red clips on the end. When we got to the funeral home, there were so many of my family members there, but it wasn’t the same. Everyone looked so hopeless and weak. There were blue and white flowers all in…

question how and why God would let such a thing happen, this leads him to loose his faith in God and go on a journey of grief and self-destruct. The mood is sad. The scene of lebo’s funeral at church further mode depicts the sad mood of the film, its mainly preaching, few intervals of dialogue and I plan to add slow tempo funeral gospel song to make the bring out the sad mood. Through dialogue we see sadness in the voice of the characters, the main dialogues happens between Ntando and his…