Funeral Rites and Ceremonies Amongst the "Tshinyai" (Or "Tshinyungwe")

Requiem for a neurologist: the funeral rites of Jean-Martin Charcot.

Jean-Martin Charcot, the founder of modern neurology and leading figure in international neurology in the 19th century, died on August 16, 1893, in the province of Morvan in the French countryside, at the age of 67. The funeral service was held in Paris at the La Salpêtrière Hospital, and Charcot was buried in Montmartre cemetery in the same city.

A Christian Funeral Director's Reflections on the Modern Funeral

The rites of spring

Every spring I get depressed. Last month I had the stunning realization that graduate student recruitment is a major cause of my spring depression. Each year, as the days lengthen, graduate programs engage in their ritualistic seduction of prospective students. In the past 15 years, US institutions, including the most elite and respected, have evolved mating displays worthy of birds and fish. T...

Homocysteine: call off the funeral.

See related article, pages 456 – 460. T he authors of the much publicized though not yet published Norwegian Vitamin Study (NORVIT) 1 of vitamin therapy in coronary artery disease, are widely quoted as saying that vitamin therapy for lowering plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) was harmful, and that " homocys-teine is dead. " However, the slides of their presentation 1 do not show the B 12 status ...

Funeral insurance

Funeral insurance has existed at least since antiquity, and it remains popular in many parts of Africa today. Yet the study of funeral insurance as a distinct form of insurance has hitherto been neglected. This paper presents a model in which funeral insurance combines regular life insurance with a restriction on how the payout is spent. The model predicts that there is an intermediate range of...