Death and Mourning Understanding and adjusting to death and loss at various stages of life. Almost every child or adolescent faces the death of someone close—a relative, friend, or even a pet—at some point in his or her life. In fact, it...

Lamentation for the dead or for a calamity. The Bible describes wearing sackcloth, the rending of garments, sitting on the ground, putting dust on the head, *fasting and abstaining from washing as mourning customs. In modern times, the bereaved stay at...

Men mourn for those who leave fortunes behind. (Chinese) Men never mourn over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities lost to do evil. (Greek) None mourn with more affection of sorrow than those who inwardly rejoice....

Act or social expression of deprivation associated with the loss of someone through death. Mourning includes rituals and behaviors specific to various cultures and...

Mourning is in the simplest sense synonymous with grief over the death of someone. The word is also used to describe a cultural complex of behaviours in which the bereaved participate or are expected to participate. Customs vary between different...

Mourning, Martin nearly come to blows Associated Press Saturday, November 22, 2003 A day after taunting at practice nearly escalated into a fight, Alonzo Mourning insists all is well. "Every day we always joke around and trash talk," Mourning said...

Sports fans know Alonzo Mourning as a six-time NBA All-Star and Defensive Player of the Year, former center for the Miami Heat, and a gold medallist at the 2000 Olympics. But "Zo" is also recognized widely as one of the most generous, giving...

There was a time, before Jerry Falwell became a household name, when Lynchburg was just Lynchburg _ a small industrial city known for factories and mills.David Campbell remembers how it used to be, way before the Moral Majority. The city was rougher around the edges...

Turkmens on Sunday paid final respects to Saparmurat Niyazov, the authoritarian president who for two decades dominated life in this isolated Central Asian nation with his all-encompassing cult of personality.The mourning ceremonies started with a long line of Turkmens mixed with foreign dignitaries streaming solemnly...