Sentences with phrase «of dead relatives»

SECURING THE SHADOW: POSTHUMOUS PORTRAITURE IN AMERICA Americans once regularly commissioned portraits of their dead relatives, as seen in this major show of post-mortem images, ranging from 18th - century gravestone carvings to photographs.

If I could actually have lunch with any three people, living or dead, I'd probably choose three of my dead relatives.

Bereaved families will have the right to inspect the medical forms of a dead relative before cremation, under Ministry of Justice proposals.

Not exact matches

Even though we know that the Mormon's who do this are impotent, one still naturally recoils at one's dead relatives being dragged in to being a part of a sacrilegious ceremony.

A number of people who had accompanied Ryan — some of them media representatives, some of them relatives who had hoped to make contact with members of the agricultural project set up by Jim Jones and Peoples Temple in the jungles of Guyana — lay dead or wounded.

Those who can afford it build costly sepulchres for their dead relatives and observe the fortieth day of death with great ceremony, preparing rich food and inviting friends and relatives to partake of it.

I'm - fairly - certain that it was simply caused by the state of my brain going brain dead and firing off some relative paths.

Mormon's don't do this for people that are living, only the dead relatives of members of their church.

Within that dynamic relationship, the dead are given back to themselves in a continual way by the experience of the living, and the relative contribution of the dead to the living does shift from one occasion to another.

This impression is of course relative: matter appears as «dead» in contrast to the variety of higher forms that manifest themselves in the living being.

To some extent, this attitude of denial has come about because of changes in our society in this century: the marked decrease in the number of deaths at an early age; the development of specialized professions for the care of the dying and the dead; the emergence of geographical mobility, with the consequence that most of us live at some distance from aging and dying relatives, including parents; the growth of separate communities for the aging, not only nursing homes but retirement communities.

Jews fear desecration of their dead bodies and many refuse autopsies for their dead relatives for this reason.

He also grants the common - sense view that a human corpse is a dead thing as a human body, but he still makes his panpsychistic point by insisting that even a corpse is composed of many living things and, as far as our knowledge runs, nothing else.29 In addition, he claims that his belief that there is only a relative and not an absolute distinction between mind and matter is given support by recent developments in physics that have shown that the differences between matter and various kinds of radiation are differences of degree and not of kind.

As one reader posted on the on «line bookstore, Amazon.com, «Ms. Walker is truly one of the most daring writers of the twentieth century... [but] I found the details of the lesbian lovemaking to be more than I ever wanted to know about lesbian relationships» and the assumption that my dead relatives spy on me in my bed quite revolting.

The castle church at Wittenberg had sixty - four priests attached to it, to celebrate the daily Requiem Masses, intended to ensure the everlasting salvation of those who had died, funded by the dead or their relatives.

See our altar for our favorite dead relatives above, as well as a picture of me with the divine Venus DeMille.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/is-breech-vaginal-delivery-safe/ Much of the discussion in the comments was scientifically literate people saying that «630 dead babies» was meaningless, that we need to look at relative risk and rates.

My relative who was thrown out the closed window of a car when she was not wearing a seat belt is not here commenting on this blog, because she's dead.

I gave a concise explanation of relative neonatal death rates and how 210 dead babies per 100,000 is significantly more risky than 38 dead babies per 100,000.

Yep — and that's the reason why the absolute death rate is just as important as the relative — because of the extreme SEVERITY of the outcome (ie dead baby) >

Dr Bawumia said the gesture was in recognition of the long - standing relationship between the NPP and the Muslim communities adding; «this is our small contribution to help you have a befitting cemetery in the Central Region to bury dead relatives».

In an emotional and electrifying town hall meeting, grieving relatives and friends of the dead unloaded on Rubio for helping to keep semi-automatic rifles legal and for pocketing money from the National Rifle Association.

It would also force the 250 Chileans who work in the Falklands to travel home via the UK and prevent relatives of Argentinean war dead from visiting their graves.

Some of them said they were there to find out whether or not their relatives were among either the injured or dead, claiming that some of their family members who went out Wednesday had still not reported to the house as at Thursday morning.

«There is no tragedy worse than when someone comes to the dead body of their relative and can not recognise them.»

I found it unbearable to witness the gratuitous suffering of a close, dear, relative being starved and parched to death, then becoming mentally but not physically dead.

According to the spokesman, after he was confirmed dead the remains of the deceased were released to his relatives for burial according to Islamic rites.

«The questions are as follows as narrated in a national daily by a member of the committee: «What is the actual number of the dead, and when are they going to be handed over to their relatives for proper burial?

They also worked out which of 221 dead relatives would have carried the gene variant, and analysed how long each of these lived.

It also happened to fall very close to Radonitsa, the day of remembrance of the dead, when family members visit the graves of their relatives.

Once a patient goes brain dead, and relatives sign his organ donation consent form, he will get the best medical care of his life.

Famously clever animals like chimps and monkeys seem to grieve for dead comrades, but now even wild relatives of pigs called peccaries have been seen mourning

Morse later videotaped the children recalling their experiences, which included such standard fare as long tunnels, giant rainbows, dead relatives, and deities of all sorts.

They recall being reassured along the way by dead friends, relatives, and a gamut of religious figures.

Relatives of the dead had paid up to $ 1,295 so that a gram or more of their beloved's ashes could take a ride aboard a rocket that briefly touched the face of the cosmos, peaking 73.5 miles above Earth, before dropping back down to the ground a half hour later.

Offerings of food and drink by the relatives appeased the spirits of the dead in this dark and gloomy realm.

Vreeland is now comparing the genes of the ancient bug with those of two contemporary relatives: Bacillus marismortui, from the Dead Sea, and Virgibacillus pantothenticus.

In recent years, geneticists have read the genomes of long - dead humans and extinct relatives like Neanderthals.

What advantage the colorful feathers provide for Little Blue remains unknown, but they certainly aren't being caught dead in the same black and white tuxedo as most of their relatives.

They also worked out which of 221 dead relatives would have carried the gene variant, and analysed how long each of them lived.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, successfully cloned and sequenced two fragments of mitochondrial DNA from a 140 - year - old museum specimen of a quagga, an extinct relative of zebras, demonstrating that genetic material could survive and be recovered from the remains of long - dead animals.5

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The mention or offer of large sums of money money from a dead relative is the oldest and was the most common form or dating scam — though not so common now.

Miguel is mysteriously transported into the Land Of The Dead, as he meets the ghosts of all his relatives, including his great great grandmother, who hates musiOf The Dead, as he meets the ghosts of all his relatives, including his great great grandmother, who hates musiof all his relatives, including his great great grandmother, who hates music.

In a fit of desperation, Miguel attempts to steal a guitar that belonged to Ernesto while he was alive, and in doing so, Miguel crosses over to the Land of the Dead as his deceased relatives are making their way over to the Land of the Living.

Unfortunately, Miguel winds up getting up close and personal with some skeletal relatives who have arrived for Day of the Dead festivities.

Coco takes a deep dip into Mexican culture by setting the movie south of the border on the Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), when the spirits of the departed can visit their living relatives.

Miguel goes to extreme lengths to try and perform in a talent contest during Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), the Mexican holiday where dearly departed relatives come visit their living family members.

PLOT: A young Mexican boy obsessed with becoming a great singer takes an unexpected trip to the Land of the Dead, where he hopes to meet his hero, a famous musician, as well as get the approval of his deceased relatives.

Miguel must meet Ernesto, fend off his own dead relatives (who KNOW why the family cursed musicians forever and ever) and negotiate a return to the land of the living in time for the Big Show.