Today's funeral director might stage a memorial service featuring the release of butterflies at the grave site, or with the deceased's Harley parked ceremonially at the entrance to the chapel.
Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen said yesterday that the city and the International Association of Firefighters would stage a memorial service on Nov. 18 at Madison Square Garden for the 343 firefighters who died in the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center.
The town of 45,000 (which still lacks reliable drinking water) is to stage a memorial service on Monday.
Levitan's remark referenced the somber tone, set by the decision to stage five memorial moments for high-profile actors who died in the last year.
If you're commemorating a famous person, stage a memorial and send invitations throughout your area to volunteer or sponsor the event.
The story led the television newscasts at breakfast time, with frequent replays of the fireball that Wheldon's cartwheeling, disintegrating car became, and the melancholy sight of his fellow drivers staging a memorial parade in his memory.
To be sure, at the larger Forward Operating Base Marez, commanders staged a Memorial Day ceremony.
In November 1917, a year after Eakins died, the Metropolitan Museum staged a memorial exhibition of his paintings, including the two surgical works.
Wherever Reynolds subsequently staged The Memorial Dress, the atmosphere s/he imposes not only cultivates respect, but signals that, regardless of the dress, this is no ordinary drag queen taken to the stage.
If the same people involved with planning and staging the memorial service for Michael Jackson were also involved with planning the now canceled upcoming "This is It" concert tour that would have commenced next month, then clearly, Michael Jackson was back.
