After impromptu shrines to David Bowie appeared on both sides of the Atlantic, fans have called for more permanent memorials to the legendary musician.
The word "funerary" strictly means "of or pertaining to a funeral or burial", but there is a long tradition in English of applying it not only to the practices and artefacts directly associated with funeral rites, but also to a wider range of more permanent memorials to the dead.
Mr. Branca and Mr. McClain would prefer to set up a permanent memorial in more tourist-friendly Las Vegas.
The General Services Administration, the federal agency responsible for both the building and the African Burial Ground Project, is saying it will soon attend to the reinterment of the remains of more than 400 New Yorkers, many of them slaves, and erection of a permanent memorial.
The society's curators did not disassemble any memorials, but worked with shrinekeepers who sought a more permanent home for their materials.
More meetings will come when the town begins looking at how to honor the victims with a permanent memorial.
"M.A.S. would like to see it become a permanent memorial.
The school also plans to build a permanent memorial.
Ms. Llodra has invited everyone to take their memorials to the department for inclusion in the permanent memorial.
But two things are much more permanent.
