Funerals

You're referring to the alternate ending of 1408, now available on the two disc version of the DVD. In this ending writer Mike Enslin has died setting fire to room 1408. He is buried and then is seen in the room where he hears his daughter's voice calling him and says "yes, of course", not "well done". Mike then walks back into the destroyed room 1408 and, ghost-like, fades through the door. This is meant to show that he is merely surveying the destruction of the room, not that he has himself become trapped within it, and is now leaving to be with his daughter.

In the original ending the firefighters force entry into the room and rescue Enslin as he curls under the coffee-table, delighted that the room is dying. Enslin recovers in a New York hospital, Lily at his bedside. He swears that he saw Katie, but Lily refuses to believe him. After his recovery, Enslin moves back in with Lily, beginning work on a new novel that has nothing to do with his previous cheap haunted sites series. While sorting through a box of items from his night in 1408, Enslin comes across his mini cassette recorder. After some difficulty he manages to get the tape to play; it begins with Enslin's dictation of 1408's appearance, but cuts in with audio from his interaction with the apparition of his daughter. Lily freezes in shock as she hears her dead daughter's voice coming from the tape recorder, and the film closes on Enslin meeting her shocked stare with one of grim vindication.

The amount of time that a memorial service will last will depend on the deceased person's friends and family. In most cases it takes about 2 hours depending on the speakers who give their tributes.

They are an honor guard for the deceased. They are the individuals who will carry the coffin as necessary until it is finally brought to its resting place.

It was on Monday the 25th of November 1963.

Kennedy's funeral was on th 14th March 1967.

By the way the name is Graf Spee, Graf means ( Count) in German- for esxample Graf Zeppelin. Most probably they had some sort of salutation involving maritime customs such as the familiar two-note ( usually) Bosun"s whistle- The Bosun ( a Naval NCO) would blow the two-note signal( hard to transliterate but often heard in Naval films and the men would fall into ranks or salute, Doff Hats, One really does not know the Bosun"s whistle was and is frequently used in the Navy to preface commands-and instad of calling out ( Achtung!) attention! the Bosun blows the two note command call ( there are other calls also-one should not confuse this was a bugle which was a wider musical range) It is(the bosun"s pipe) more like a police whistle.)

You're referring to the alternate ending of 1408, now available on the two disc version of the DVD. In this ending writer Mike Enslin has died setting fire to room 1408. He is buried and then is seen in the room where he hears his daughter's voice calling him and says "yes, ofcourse", not "well done". Mike then walks back into the destroyed room 1408 and, ghost-like, fades through the door. This is meant to show that he is merely surveying the destruction of the room, not that he has himself become trapped within it, and is now leaving to be with his daughter. In the original ending the firefighters force entry into the room and rescue Enslin as he curls under the coffee-table, delighted that the room is dying. Enslin recovers in a New York hospital, Lily at his bedside. He swears that he saw Katie, but Lily refuses to believe him. After his recovery, Enslin moves back in with Lily, beginning work on a new novel that has nothing to do with his previous cheap haunted sites series. While sorting through a box of items from his night in 1408, Enslin comes across his mini cassette recorder. After some difficulty he manages to get the tape to play; it begins with Enslin's dictation of 1408's appearance, but cuts in with audio from his interaction with the apparition of his daughter. Lily freezes in shock as she hears her dead daughter's voice coming from the tape recorder, and the film closes on Enslin meeting her shocked stare with one of grim vindication.

I believe it is "Love You 'Till the End of Time" by The Pogues.http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Love-You-'Till-The-End-lyrics-Pogues/25827EC69024332E48256A2600140140

I assume you mean Martin Luther King. it was called prophetically in a sense- I"ve been to the Mountain Top, sometimes ungrammatically written as one word- Mountaintop. This was less than a week before his assasination.

Officially, under the Canon law, No! This was carried out in practice with the funerals of the actresses Lupe Velez and Carole Landis. Both took their own lives ( Landis and Velez both left notes). They were nominal Catholics but were refused burial in Catholic cemeteries. In the case of Miss Landis, an Episcopal minister officiated. Of course if there is some doubt, some sort of accident, that is another matter.

Robert Kennedy, a close friend of John Steinbeck, read some of Steinbeck's favorite poems at his funeral. The poem included "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas.

Coco Chanel died on January 10, 1971 in Paris, France. Her funeral was January 13, 1971. Coco Chanel was a fashion designer and founded the Chanel brand. She was born in 1883.

Miep Gies (when properly pronounced, Miep rhymes with "keep" and Gies sounds like "geese")

Hi. The salary of a funeral director depends on the location where they work and whether they own the funeral home or not. If employed by a funeral home that you do not own, in the US you can expect to make around $49,000 per year.

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The choir sung gospel and at the end of her service you could here her singing I Will Always Love You.

I am not sure if Priests ( Catholic) or Ministers ( Protestant) were involved, not knowing Beethoven"s religious background. The musician was known to have composed Nine symphonies- Nine clerics may have been a recognition of this fact, something like flowers spelling out say, l776 for patriotic angles.

White lilies were reported to be Mrs. Kennedy's favorite flower. Someone recalled that her coffin was covered with beautiful white lilies the small variety, the type used in "Mouget Des Bois" perfume (Coty) that was so popular as a fragrance in the 1960's. The lilies were in the shape of a cross, surrounded by what appeared to be green fern clippings. When Carolyn Bessette and JFK, Jr. were married, Carolyn carried a small bouquet of these lilies and JFK, Jr. wore a lily in his boutonniere. It was said that when the guests saw the beautiful bride, coming down the aisle, the sight of her small white bouquet of lilies brought them to tears because they recalled that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved that flower.

A funeral mask is a decorative mask covered with gold and paint, and it is placed on the mummy.

Finally found it! "City Episodes" by Ketamine Suns

http://ketaminesuns.bandcamp.com/track/city-episodes

Adhesives and cosmetics- something like lip balm ( not embalm! are used to secure the mouth, etc. You did not state the cause of death- Accidents- auto, etc and crimes, often require specialized Damage Control- and all of the stops are pulled out in the case of the Ladies. a relative of mine once went to a wake of a Nurse who was decapitated in an auto accident- (this explained her interest in Jayne Mansfield"s fatal crash)- yes the body was restored- and (they sewed her head back on) it is really a restorative art. In similar damage-control cases ladies are often sewn into their last dresses- and Empire Gowns are admirably suited to this ( not the neck injury though- that Poor Lady would have to have something closed-up around her neck -maybe a turtleneck. an interfesting question!

Although the manufacturers of the original caskets of President Kennedy and of Marilyn Monroe are out of business, both designs - with minor changes - are still in production and can be bought either directly or through funeral homes, provided you are willing and able to spend that much money for one of these luxury caskets.

The Kennedy part of the question is somewhat more difficult to be answered because for the late President two different caskets had been used. For the transport from Dallas to Washington, DC it was a bronze casket manufactured by the (former) Elgin Casket Company of Elgin, Ill. After this casket had been damaged during the loading / unloading process, it was replaced by a mahogany casket which was used for the burial.

President Kennedy's Elgin casket had been a double lid "Handley" model with a "Britannia" (that is: partially brushed) finish and an amber (reddish) transparent tint. A few years after President Kennedy's death, the Elgin Company changed the flaring round corner design of the "Handley" somewhat by giving it a more pronounced urn shape. After Elgin had been bought by the renown mattress producer Simmons in 1968, the "Handley" model was replaced by the Winchester model, which differed from its predecessor only by some embossed ornaments. The casket is manufactured nowadays as "Winchester Twin Lock Amber Britannia" by VerPlank Enterprises of Iron City, TN. The design is shown in the VerPlank Online casket catalog.

President Kennedy's second coffin, a mahogany unit, was a very plain round corner design manufactured by the Marsellus Casket Company of Syracuse, NY under the type designation 710. In 1997, the Marsellus family sold the company to SCI (Service Corporation International) of Houston, which in 2003 decided to close down the Marsellus factory. The brand name Marsellus and several of the company's most famous designs - among them the "Seven-Ten" - were bought by the Batesville Casket Company of Hillenbrand Industries. Since then, Batesville has manufactured the "Kennedy casket" under the designation (Marsellus) "President". The Batesville model looks still the same as the Marsellus 710. The main difference consist in the fact that Batesville does no longer offer an almost unlimited choice of outer (casket top / handles / finishes) and inner (textile material and colors of the lining) custom designs. Nowadays, the "President" is available only in a perfection half couch style (split lid) and in a full couch style (undivided lid), but, for example, not with a "hinged cap" top as in the original Kennedy casket. Also, an inner bronze or copper liner is no longer available. It seems that Batesville has strictly limited the choice of available varieties of the "President" design in order to keep the (nevertheless still high) price of the casket within reasonable bounds.

The successor models to both "Kennedy caskets" - the VerPlank "Winchester" and the Batesville "President" can be bought both through funeral directors and through several Online casket shops.

Marilyn Monroe was buried in a luxury coffin which has been called the "Cadillac of caskets": a silver finished 15 ga / 48 oz (that is: extra strong and heavy) "Masterpiece" bronze casket with a hand tufted champagne colored velvet, satin and silk interior manufactured by the (former) Belmont Casket Company of Columbus, Ohio. The casket was equipped with a hermetically sealing double lid (without inner glass panel). Although the Belmont factory closed down in 1979, the "Masterpiece" design is still in production. It is manufactured nowadays under the same name by VerPlank Enterprises of Tennessee, although the original design underwent a few minor changes: while the beading ornaments of the "Monroe casket" still exist, the swing bar handles look slightly different now. Interestingly however, VerPlank still offers the Masterpiece in 48oz bronze and with a silver finished exterior, which makes the casket a kind of replica of the Monroe casket. Pictures of the "Silver Twin Seal Masterpiece" are shown in the VerPlank Online casket catalog.

His body is buried in Paris thanks to Adolf Hitler, but his heart remained in Vienna (literally, along with his intestines).

Memorial supper. tradition might be related to Biblical last supper. There used to be a joke- the lLast Supper was held at-(where else) Booth Memorial! ( which is actually a hospital, certainly not a restaurant)