A legendary funeral from another time

death of Britain's Queen Elizabeth

 The death of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was announced on September 8, and arrangements were announced for her funeral, which continued without interruption until her burial, on the 19th of the same month. What is striking about the funeral ritual is its pomp, its system and many of its manifestations, which I imagine were prepared to celebrate life.

 Media in the event industry in the past, and in Egypt the Pharaohs, the daughter of Al-Ahram to bury kings, and the coffin is carried for ten days and placed in front of visitors, whether they recognize the queen and have some loyalty to her, or those who are only interested in death and life, where the funeral procession provides them an occasion to inspect The dead 

and the dead are raised inside a coffin drawn by horses, or carried over the shoulders of a group of royal guards. 

I imagine that the media today gives death and funeral joy, and funerals conveyed with pictures of the caliber of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral with her colorful imperial appearance, contribute to the illusion of the stoppage of time. 

The tender colors of the coffin and the roses that surround it, the colors of the clothes of its bearers and their movement, the accompanying music, then the ambiance of the churches, the tenacity of the architecture of the horses and the rhythm of their hooves, old and young, the supplications and the accompanying silence that penetrates the various forms of loud and faint sounds. 

The prayers of the men of the churches, their reverence and their melodious singing, the atmosphere of life in the shadow of death and next to it, death turns into a phenomenon for watching and contemplation, and although we follow in the funeral media the death of adults, heroes, stars and leaders, but the act of the image, with everything that goes along with it, reveals the ability of the living to perform rituals.

 Loss and its effect, and mourning days and rituals within human societies are one of the means used for the same end, to give life to death, even when this is only possible in our conscience. 

The prestige of death doubled in my eyes and in my mind as I followed the funeral of the Queen.

 It doubled when I saw her before she was lowered to the vault in which she will be placed inside the royal chapel next to her husband's coffin.

 I noticed that she was dressed in luxurious youth, and I also noticed how she was lying on her back, and I saw the shapes of the covers that decorated the coffin, as well as the roses that were framing it from every side, and I became more convinced of the forms of life and forms of joy that some neighborhoods are keen to remain part of.

 the death. It is not related to the funeral of a queen.

 Today, the picture knows her story with a political administration, and she spends for that, which gives the image the symbolic efficacy assigned to her, represented in the process of consolidating a regime in power, alive and dead.

 The funeral procession had a special magic, the magic of sound and image, the magic of prayers and hymns in churches, the movement of the funeral procession and its transportation, and the coffin was placed in the dome of Parliament in order to see the farewell. 

We stand as we follow the procession in front of an act that man has domesticated to do since ancient times, an act that takes another form today due to what the imaged media does.

 A person, and a funeral is expected to obtain a record, as it is likely that more than half of the world's population followed.