Word: coffining
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Since West Germany has no army, there was no semblance of a military funeral. The handful of old Wehrmacht officers who appeared wore top hats instead of their high-peaked military caps. Instead of a gun-carriage, a common horse-drawn hearse carried the coffin. Said Dr. Ernst Strasser, the officiating clergyman: "We are burying the last of the great Prussians...
...moment before his death (in 1893), the electric lights in the house and street went out. When his daughter cried out, "Don't let father die in the dark!", all the lights flashed on again. And in that instant, Booth died. As his coffin was being carried from the church in New York, a "splintering roar" was heard in Washington. By a macabre coincidence, the interior supports of Ford's Theater had collapsed, killing 21 people. He left a new tradition, but the old one pursued...
...Henry Sloane Coffin...
...finale came when Tarah was "buried alive." He went into another cataleptic fit and stage hands laid him into a plywood coffin lying in a pile of sand. They sprinkled several shovelfuls of sand on his face and chest, then, as the interpreter announced over the microphone that the coffin was completely filled with sand (the lights were funereally dim, and the people on the stage could hardly see, let alone the audience) the lid, which warped up in the back leaving an inch crack facing away from the audience, was put on the coffin, making it "air tight...
Concludes Dr. Coffin: "A few skillfully chosen words-thoughts clearly in line with the mind of Christ-a man speaking earnestly of that which has mastered him, and there is something heard that all men with ears recognize as Divine. Think what it means: it is the power of letting God become manifest...