last rites
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Who looks at those Saturday losses and performs last rites upon the Bulldogs and Irish?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
In Hindu tradition, when a body cannot be recovered, a symbolic effigy is made from sacred "kusha" grass to represent the dead, allowing relatives to perform last rites.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
After days of searching shelters and mortuaries, relatives of some of the missing lost hope and began conducting last rites.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Today, it’s as though it’s waiting for last rites.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
Always before, Jim and I had carried them into the mountains to bury them and to give them their last rites, a prayer over a rough wooden cross of birch twigs and twine.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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