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Funeral Customs: Chapter IV: Wakes, Mutes, Wailers, Sin-E...

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DURING the period between death and burial (which varies according to custom and climatic conditions) it seems natural enough that the body of a deceased person should be kept under close observation, for one reason or another, not the least of which is a scarcely abandoned hope of a return to consciousness. The separation and sudden change of conditions which death has brought with it, will be but gradually realized. The friends and relations who have so recently been accustomed to tend the…

Funeral Customs: Chapter IV: Wakes, Mutes, Wailers, Sin-E...

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