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...city's funeral companies?are vying for space at the crematorium. The musicians occasionally squeak out a desultory tune, unrecognizable over the noise from the other bands, but mostly they laugh and smoke cigarettes as the coffins are hoisted into the ovens. Women who have been employed to mourn for the deceased?a common practice in Taiwan?do so halfheartedly, whimpering rather than weeping. The funeral cloth is ragged, flowers are wilted, the hearses old and decrepit. "The level of service here is disgraceful," says Deng Wen-lung, a university lecturer in life and death studies who has accompanied...
...because we do not stand together, but simply that different people need a different outlet to mourn," said former SAS President Rayd. K. Abu-Ayyash...
...cannot mourn for an Israeli defense soldier in the same vigil in which I mourn for a 12-year-old child hiding behind his father's back, or a friend of mine who got killed...." Abu-Ayyash said in October...
...Both groups say the events were meant to mourn the loss of life during the conflict, but the separate events showed the clear political and ideological divisions between the different groups...
...just felt that we couldn't agree with the principles on which they based their rally," says Rita Hamad `03, current president of SAS. "We wanted to show people that you can't mourn the deaths of all civilians and then support the organization that is causing the majority of those civilian deaths...