Word: burial
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...least a thousand people lined up at movie theaters in Tokyo's Marunouchi district to see the film for which director Yojiro Takita brought home an Oscar. Departures (Okuribito) is the comical and dramatic story of an unemployed cellist who finds work cleaning and preparing the deceased for burial. The film has already grossed more than $34 million in Japan since its September 2008 release. (The film is scheduled for limited released in the U.S. in May.) Sales of Aoki's novel, on which the film is based, have spiked, along with advance sales of the DVD. (See pictures...
...Mike Aquilina, who attends Holy Child Church outside Pittsburgh, Pa., estimates that he fulfills the requirements for an indulgence a few times a year by visiting a saintly burial site Stateside or St. Peter's Basilica when he's in Rome on business. "God doesn't get anything out of it, the Church doesn't get anything out of it - but I sure do," says Aquilina...
...downtown Springfield. This massive granite edifice, decorated with statues cast from melted cannons and topped by an obelisk rising 117 feet, is a testament to the enormous place Lincoln occupies in America's heart and memory. As if to remind us, though, of Lincoln's genius for understatement, his burial marker inside is starkly simple - a name and two dates...
...that nowadays might require nothing more than a Zoloft prescription and some couch time. The patients' conditions listed in hospital records include "worries about sex" and "worries about money" - "things everyone walks around with today," Maisel says. When these patients died, their relatives either had no money for a burial or no interest in claiming the bodies...
...time. Mumbai's influential Hindu right-wing went missing, knowing its brand of extremism wasn't welcome. Soon after the last shots were fired, the city's leading Muslim clerics showed their contempt for the act, declaring that the bodies of the terrorists would not be allowed a proper burial within Mumbai...