Mourning
- Not to be confused with morning
Mourning refers to process of grieving. This almost always happens at funerals whenever a loved one passes away.Mourning is also seen when things someone loves gets lost, although not as often. Most commonly seen is sadness, but typically a less intense but longer lasting feeling. Similar to melancholy. Mourning is only seen when a person (or animal, important object, or goal) is lost. Death is most commonly associated. Mourning is not just found in humans, but also in animals. Many birds have a sense of mourning when their mate dies.
The word is used for behaviour in which the bereaved follow. Wearing black clothes is common in many countries, though other forms of dress are seen. [1]
Mourning Media
Girl in a mourning dress holding a framed photograph of her father, who presumably died during the American Civil War.
Egyptian women in a sorrowful gesture of mourning.
Empress Amélie of Brazil wore black in mourning for her husband Pedro I for the rest of her life.
Japanese funeral arrangement.
Catherine de' Medici as widow, c. 1560s
Mary, Queen of Scots, in deuil blanc c. 1559 following the deaths of her father-in-law, mother, and first husband Francis II of France.
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands wearing white mourning after the death of husband in 1934.
Advertisement for Victorian mourning garb.
Mourning jewelry, brooch, jet, 19th c.
Queen Victoria with the five surviving children of her daughter, Princess Alice, dressed in mourning clothing for their mother and their sister Princess Marie in early 1879
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References
- ↑ Robben, Antonius C. G. M. (4 February 2009). Robben, Antonius C. G. M. (ed.). Death, Mourning, and Burial A Cross-Cultural Reader (Ebook). Wiley. p. 7. ISBN 9781405137508. Retrieved May 28, 2021.