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from the Bible or the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, the lowering of the coffin, a few clods of earth and flowers tossed in after it--as if these people were a faith community. Once in a while, at a specific funeral, they might be, but this is rare. Far more often the people gathered almost never have anything to do with one another in daily life--as was satirized in the BeatlesÆ song Eleanor Rigby: ôAll the lonely people, where do they all come from?ö

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