So the suggestion that the activists might perform a lynching instead was "a very mischievous idea", said Mark Auslander, an anthropologist who studies memorial rituals and has attended the Monroe event several times.
In the 22 years I have been with OUR HOUSE Grief Support Center, I have heard thousands of grievers talk about meaningful funeral and memorial rituals.
Visiting the cemetery, whose rows of perfectly aligned white headstones spread over the rolling hills of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River from the capital, has been a Memorial Day ritual for many presidents.
My mom, my older brother, and I recently undertook the pre-Memorial Day ritual of preparing the cabin for summer.
Ask Mrs. Finken, 43, about the many ways she keeps her husband's memory alive, and she will wince if you use the words "ritual" or "memorial".
In 1994, Anne Pasternak had only just begun her long tenure as the Director of Creative Time in New York when she bravely co-sponsored Hunter Reynolds: Patina Du Prey's Memorial Dress, a healing ritual and performance sculpture.
Finally the ritual and memorials as seen in the archaeological evidence spanning 1500 years is traced.
Grief is another feeling we must cultivate, and funerary rituals and memorial gatherings are the means whereby we continue to interact with our predecessors, and bond more closely with our peers, and descendants; again, through the family.
Also common were carved wooden figures of mythic beings and contemporary persons; some were used in sacred ritual, others as memorial posts for the dead.
Nonetheless, while many families are waiting, others are moving ahead with a memorial service or some other ritual to honor the person who has not been found.
