Dr. Judith M. Stillion, a psychologist who is chairwoman of the End of Life Issues Committee of the American Psychological Association, said she had not heard of living funerals, but they sounded like down-to-the-wire versions of more familiar send-offs.
Just as a fleeting sniff of something familiar can send us spiralling back into the past, so a remembered movement can do the same, whether it's something mundane or virtuosic.
But when Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram have become the bona fide mode of communication, people aren't as familiar with sending written letters and printed photos.
I thought, Why does this sound so familiar?" Professor Grossman sent his spoof to two Web sites on Jan.
Farooqi told me that Harroun looked "familiar" after I sent him a photograph, though he claimed no specific recollection of him.
He then proceeded to serve up one of the tastiest sets I saw the whole weekend, top shelf house and disco rarities and a hint of the familiar that would sent us head over heels.
Colonel Blitch was familiar with large robots sent in by bomb squads to defuse potential explosive devices.
Familiar enemies that have sent of millions of children – and some adults – scurrying behind the sofa since the first show in 1963 made a return, with the Daleks and shape-shifting aliens the Zygons battling the Doctors.
The message, according to people familiar with it, was sent from a cyber-cafe in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia -- where the Saudi authorities closely monitor such places -- to a person in Lackawanna, just south of here.
MILAN, Feb. 23 — The complaint that Gucci has lost its sex appeal under the leadership of its chief executive, Mark Lee, and its creative director, Frida Giannini, was answered on Wednesday night when Ms. Giannini sent those familiar lipstick-red high heels down a mirrored runway to the pop rhythms of the Electric Light Orchestra's "Evil Woman".
