Sentence examples for practice of mourning from inspiring English sources

The anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, author of Death, Grief, and Mourning, conjectures that the first world war was one cause: communities were so overwhelmed by the numbers of dead that they dropped the practice of mourning the individual.

The British anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, the author of "Death, Grief, and Mourning" (1965), conjectures that the First World War was one cause in Britain: communities were so overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of dead that they dropped the practice of mourning for the individual.

So I fast and refrain from food and drink, adopt the practices of mourning and read the book of Lamenations, but it's not a day to sink into despair.

In their eerily entitled project, mass.rip, artists Milo Reinhardt and Conan Lai tune into this universal uncertainty  The Montreal-based duo have unearthed the unestablished protocols and practices of mourning on social media to produce what they call a Facebook "monument": a granite tombstone, engraved with the projection-mapped names of deceased Facebook users.

While the practice of sending mourning cards died out before World War I, they are sold as collectibles today.

The sheer diversity of mourning practices Simon managed to unearth and exhibit at the Armory is mind-boggling.

The administrators placed an emphasis on perinatal mourning, where they said they were confronted with different cultures as well as religions, and stated that the hospital was well adapted to the practices and different cultural beliefs of mourning.

The ninth of Av, and the three weeks leading up to it, is considered a time of mourning in Jewish practice.

The practices of the day model rituals of mourning, calling back in our collective memory for the loss we carry with us each day.

Are there other practices that signify for you the experience of mourning a loss, and might be appropriate to observe as your own adopted ritual?

Dr. Jan Goldman, a psychologist in private practice in the Philadelphia suburbs, said: "The ordinary rituals of mourning don't apply here.