Jackie French
They are the ones who carry the coffin/casket into the church and then to the cemetery or crematorium..
The lych gate at the entrance to a church yard was a covered gate - used to shelter the coffin and pall bearers before entering the church for a funeral.
Yes they can, there is nothing to prevent anyone who can manage the physical nature of the job to help carry the casket. In some cases, you are not actually carry the casket but helping guide a trolly or cart that the casket sits on. For advice on how to be a pall bearer see the related links.
There are a few jobs in the funeral industry. These jobs include hearse drivers, funeral home attendants, morticians, cremation, even professional pall-bearers.
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i think it should be the 6 strongest men in the family or of the friends some times little boys in the family help out too
a person or thing that carries or holds something • a carrier of equipment on an expedition. • a person who carries the coffin at a funeral; pall-bearer. a person who presents a check or other order to pay money
The collective nouns are a pall of suspicion or a pall of smoke.
Pall bearers are those who carry the coffin to its last place of rest. as there are numerous size variations of coffins and their inhabitants this could be as few as four or many more pallbearers. The graves are dug with mechanical machinery ( backhoes usually) this is done by the cemetery people, and not the undertakers proper.
a pall (or casket pall / funeral pall)
pall bearer