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Pub Sign Photo Study – The Mort Arms – Tyldesley, Lancashire

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 19 Sep 15

A pub name meaning The Arms Of Death seems rather morbid but lots of pubs have an association with death and funerals. Many pubs were used as makeshift mortuaries and places to keep bodies after industrial or road accidents and...

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my baby wakes up at 3:00 am....

laura1991 @laura1991 (177) 21 Feb 12

My 10 month old daughter has started waking up at 3am and it takes me hours to get her back to sleep. she wakes up and cries and stands up in her cot.everytime she stands up i lie her back down. as soon as i lie back down myself,...

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Are you uncomfortable viewing the body at wakes?

ladym33 @ladym33 (10978) • United States 27 Nov 09

We have to go to a wake today. I never have been comfortable viewing bodies at wakes probably because I was forced to do it as a child. Are you comfortable doing it?

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have you experienced attending wake for the dead? what did you observed?

ckyera @ckyera (17331) • Philippines 8 Jul 09

here in the Philippines, usually when we lost a loved one, we usually have a 3 days- 1 week wake for them, on those days usually families of the dead offer a prayer for their loved one, also during those days friends and relatives...

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Funerals, wakes and viewings for the NON religious

JodiLynn @JodiLynn (1417) • United States 20 May 09

I went to my cousins funeral last week, and it got me thinking, what do I want and what do I absolutely NOT want at my "service". Why do we continue with this morbid curiosity of a viewing? Its gross, and lets face it, while...

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Will Scavangers respect the Dead.?

saivenkaat802003 @saivenkaat802003 (4823) • India 24 Jul 08

This is contrary to other topics that i have made.. just a thought.. Often in my town i see, the stray animals, like dog,cats, and even some times the birds being hit by the speeding trucks,get killed.. and there are...

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attending wakes...

vanities @vanities (11395) • Davao, Philippines 9 Jul 08

My husband's cousin died yesterday due to stroke..and my husband wish that i could go to his wakes this coming friday ..but im hesitating to go since i really dont like going ..im scared of dead bodies and the likes...and afraid...

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I am excited

Gabs @gabs8513 (48686) • United Kingdom 1 Jun 08

Hey everyone I thought I come in here before Mum wakes up properly and tell you all that I am so excited, do you know why? Do you want to know? ...........because Mel is coming to see us tomorrow for a few Days, yep she told me on...

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who wakes you up int he morning from bed

binny29 @binny29 (1527) • India 12 Aug 07

at my place my mom wakes me up early to study

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Matinal rituals

Cervejator @Cervejator (4) • Brazil 28 Jun 07

Which its your matinal ritual? What you always it makes when wakes up? It can seen funny, i always i read jokes in the journal, to laught per the morning guarantees a good mood to me for the remaining portion of the day.

matinal rituals

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If In the middle of your love making session your small child wakes up.

naman95 @naman95 (1552) • India 28 Dec 06

what will be your reaction?

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when do u wake in the morning

sindhupradeep @sindhupradeep (369) • India 13 Nov 06

6 am in the morning.

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Do you sleep like a dead or wake up easily...

umarshahbaz @umarshahbaz (14) 3 Nov 06

Well if you ask me, i like to sleep in a peacefull environment,,, even a little sound wakes me up... like if im asleep and someone even enters the room it wakes me up.. or when im asleep and someone calls my name i wake up....

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