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Article: Book helps mourners pay respects properly: Group publishes guide to funeral etiquette of various faith groups.
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- Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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Byline: Marc Parry
Aug. 1--Attending a Seventh-day Adventist's funeral? Wear dark clothing and remove your jewelry.
A Quaker's? No black required. Just be happy you knew the person.
A Sikh's? Cover your head, please. And try not to cry.
Such is the advice in a new guide to religious funeral etiquette just published by an affiliate of the Colonie-based New York State Funeral Directors Association.
The slim pamphlet is the kind of thing smart politicians might tuck away in their glove compartments.
Its descriptions of 23 of the world's faiths and denominations are also an eye-opening primer on the range of beliefs ...