Death & Funerals

## Thematic Tag: Death & Funerals

This thematic tag collects diary paragraphs describing literal death events: funerals, burials, mourning periods, and encounters with the dead. Distinguished from the broader Mortality theme, which captures Marie's figurative and philosophical preoccupation with death.

## Key Patterns

- *Funerals and burials: Marie attends or describes enterrements, pompes funebres, pannychides (Orthodox funeral vigils) - Mourning: Deuil as both social obligation and fashion statement ("je porte un deuil ravissant") - Deaths of acquaintances: Abramovitch (cholera, 1873), Fedoroff (aneurysm, 1874), and others - Tombs and cemeteries*: Visits to tombeaux, sepulcres, cimetieres

## Marie's Death Vocabulary

- "pannychide" — Orthodox funeral vigil (Russian cultural term) - "pompes funebres" — undertakers/funeral services - "passe de vie a trepas" — euphemism: "passed from life to death" - "dernier soupir" — last breath - "deuil ravissant" — beautiful mourning clothes (Marie's aesthetic take on death)

## Related Entries

- [MORTALITY](MORTALITY.md) — Broader death obsession (figurative + literal) - [HEALTH](HEALTH.md) — Illness and medical themes - [DISEASES](DISEASES.md) — Specific named illnesses - [RELIGION](RELIGION.md) — Religious aspects of death rituals