Beliefs and customs surrounding death, funeral rites, and mourning provide a window into a society’s most deeply held values. In the monotheistic faith of Islam, eschatology – belief in the Day of Judgment (Yawm al-din) and resurrection (al-qiyama) – underlies many practices. Public mourning rituals that commemorate the deaths of saints and martyrs are closely linked to the concept of salvation...

Trichomonas gallinae was present in 47% (57/121) of adult, 41% (7/17) of juvenile, and 29% (2/7) of nestling mourning doves (Zenaida ,nacroura) from Lincoln, Nebraska. Throat lesions were present in 5.9% (43/724) of the mourning doves trapped for banding. Two of four pigeons (Columba livia) possessed T. gallinae, but none contained throat lesions.

The psychosocial influences of laryngectomy were evaluated in patients with head and neck cancer. Five patients who had indications for surgery, refused laryngectomy. They preferred their occupational activities and pleasure in their social lives to losing their voices. 'Mourning work' is a psychological technical term and represents a psychological process that is set in train by the loss of a...

Failure of the parents to mourn after the sorrow of a stillbirth or neonatal death can result in dire consequences for the well-being of the family. Doctors and nurses should learn how to facilitate mourning and should accept the strange and sometimes bizarre forms this may take. When mourning is facilitated, the family is likely to adjust better to its bereavement.

Psychoanalysts from Freud up to the present have defined the goal of mourning as the detachment of libidinal ties from the deceased love object. The author reviewed recent clinical and empirical literature that casts doubt on this assumption by showing that a continuing internal relationship with the lost object is found in many bereaved individuals. These data suggest a need to reconceptualize...

This report includes Mourning Dove Call-count Survey information gathered over the last 39 years within the conterminous United States. Trends were calculated for the most recent 2and 10-year intervals and for the entire 39-year period. Between 2003 and 2004, the average number of doves heard per route decreased significantly in the Eastern and Central Management Units. No change was detected i...

the present paper is looking for expressing one of the most important human's phenomenon: mourning; one of the types of the poetries which has a close relationship with humanistic, social and natural tendencies. the poets paid special attention to mourning since years ago as well as the contemporary era. the lebanese contemporary poets also paid special attention to the majesty of this gre...