As the service closed, relatives walked slowly back to their pickups.
Flanked by a marching band playing a rousing rendition of "Our Hope Is Unification" -- an emotional song well known to both North and South Koreans -- the visitors, who were in town to see relatives, walked under a five-story clock encrusted with stained glass and through the stainless steel gates of Lotte World.
When my relatives walked in with a gift for me I was shocked and then not shocked that they had actually brought me a fifth of vodka.
In the home the relatives walk clockwise around the body; they will walk around the funeral pyre in the opposite direction.
The experience was clearly a very difficult one, with relatives walking out at one point when the court was shown images of Witheridge's body, and heard details of her injuries.
In a break with normal protocol, which dictates that only male members of the royal family accompany the coffin, the queen's daughter, Anne, the princess royal, joined 13 male relatives walking directly behind the casket.
"Apart from their seizure disorder, these patients were normal," said Dr. Jerome Siegel of the V.A. greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, the study leader and a psychiatry professor at U.C.L.A. "They're watching TV, they're talking to their relatives, walking around the hospital, going to the bathroom.
"The closest relative walks around the body five times, for each of the elements: fire, air, earth, water and wind.
Finishing just one page, on the other hand, can be a relative walk in the park.
