Premature burial

Methods: The data was collected through the use of a general survey and precedent case studies of various buildings. These findings will help shape the elements within the final space. A general survey on-line that is made up of a combination of qualitative and quantitative questions that will allow for a general sense of how the lay people want and think about the proposed building and what may or may not be important to them within the space. The data will be collected from on-line and…

Religion and culture teaches rituals that family must follow for the preparation of the body for the burial and the funeral service. In some cultures, the wake and time for mourning is a quick process, in others, it can take several weeks before they bury the body. Death is the end, some cultures rejoice others mourn, but between all cultures and religions, it is a time to remember the one who died. The Chinese, Hindu, and Jewish cultures have special requirements guaranteeing the deceased a…

Economics or Environment, these are the two E’s we have to fight between. For decades now, there has been a war to stop climate change, but to do this we would have to sacrifice our economy. This has become one of the various topics that has caused a polarization of America. The left wants to protect the environment for future generations but the right wants to protect the economy for future generations. This isn’t an easy decision by no means for either side but the decision must be made and it…

The Yanomami are an indigenous ethnic group living in Roraima, in the north of Brazil. This tribe holds a curious funeral ritual that includes the ingestion of the ashes of the deceased. A classmate from my statistics class, told me about this tribe, because his ancestors were part of it. My classmate and his parents have never practice any ritual, however, he knows about the history of the tribe. The funeral rite is divided into three ceremonies: the samples mourn crying, the ritual…

Rachel Mitacek Calaveras: Comedy of the Dead Since the beginning of history, bones have been related to symbolism. The symbol of a skull is used continuously in multiple cultures around the globe. Moreover, Skulls have numerous representations depending on the use of the emblem: flags, tattoos, and art décor are just a few to mention. Within the endless possibilities, this essay will focus on the artistic view of Mexican culture. Some of the first ideas one often correlates with Mexican art…

present you with the chance to have one last goodbye. With direct cremation you can still have a funeral service at another date. This is good for families where a parent dies out of state, and the children would still like to have a service with burial back home. When all is said and done, a direct cremation is the cheapest, and sometimes the best…

“Home Burial” by Robert Frost and “Mid-Term Break” by Seamus Heaney are both poems that contain death of a child, pain, and grief. By the title of “Home Burial” it gives us readers an insight that the husband has buried their first-born child, a boy, in the graveyard behind his house. Furthermore, it demonstrates how one tragedy can lead to another. “Mid-Term Break” gives an example of how life can be cheerful at one moment, and when you least expect it life can come to an end. Is the grieving…

now. But what about the farmer who bought the former Luke homestead in the 1950s and discovered human remains when he was plowing the mound at the foot of the rock? Doesn’t that count for something? Of course with an abandoned “black chapel” and burial ground there had to be a community somewhere since the census of 1851 recorded no fewer than 283 black residents in the area. Where did they all live? Where did they go? What happened to them? An account book from the first store in the area…

mid-1800’s, it was important to develop healthy, green, spaces for city dwellers. The Rural Cemetery Movement encouraged American cities to use cemetery space as multi-functional space for leisure, recreation, environmental preservation, and for healthy burial practices (Lundgren). "In a country sorely lacking in public green spaces, these cemeteries provided these graceful, elegant places…They were all around recreational and artistic centers for people. They became seen as major urban…

that are particularly fascinating are the burial practices that prevailed within these sites throughout the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. There were many burial similarities, as well as differences, throughout this period of time and across the expanse of the Near East. These distinctions can be seen within an examination of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site Atlit Yam and through a comparison of this site and another within the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, Catal Huyuk. Burial practices are relevant as well as…