State funeral
Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States, lies in state in the rotunda of the United States Capitol as spectators and mourners file past his flag-draped casket on June 10, 2004.
A state funeral is a public funeral ceremony where people mourn, bury, and celebrate the life of someone that was very important in their country.
With a state funeral, there is usually a day in which everyone mourns the person who died. A lot of the time, a state funeral is given to members of royal families or political leaders. People who were military or high officials or heroes, or famous for other reasons also sometimes have a state funeral.
State Funeral Media
The coffin of John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia from 1941 to 1945, lying in state inside King's Hall, Old Parliament House, Canberra, on July 6, 1945
A state funeral of President Martti Ahtisaari on 10 November 2023
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Related pages
- Funeral
- Lying in state
- List of state funerals of former U.S. Presidents and state funeral of Nelson Mandela
Other websites
Media related to State funeral at Wikimedia Commons
- The traditions of a British state funeral
- Memorializing U.S. Presidents Archived 2004-09-09 at the Wayback Machine
