El Da de los Muertos

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El Día de los Muertos
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• Una celebración mexicana

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• El Día de los Muertos is a celebration that helps
  people remember their departed loved ones, and
  helps create a sense of bonding and roots to
  ones ancestors and heritage.(es.wikipedia.org,
  Día de Muertos)

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La Catrina
Based on a painting by a famous Mexican artist,
La Catrina represents death. In these
represenations, however, death seems to be
enjoying itself. La Catrina serves to remind
everyone that death is inevitable, but that life
should be enjoyed.
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Many people believe that during the Day of the
Dead, it is easier for the souls of the departed
to visit the living. People will go to cemeteries
to communicate with the souls of the departed,
and will build private altars, containing the
favorite foods and beverages, and photos and
memorabilia, of the departed. The intent is to
encourage visits by the souls, so that the souls
will hear the prayers and the comments of the
living directed to them. Celebrations can take a
humorous tone, as celebrants remember funny
events and anecdotes about the departed.
(wikipedia.org, Day of the Dead)
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• Those with writing talent sometimes create short
  poems, mocking epitaphs of friends, sometimes
  describing interesting habits and attitudes or
  some funny anecdotes. This custom originated in
  the 18th-19th century, after a newspaper
  published a poem narrating a dream of a cemetery
  in the future, "and all of us were dead",
  proceeding to "read" the tombstones.
• (wikipedia.org, Day of the Dead)

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A humorous epitaph that Benjamin Franklin wrote
about himself

• The Body of B. Franklin, Printer,
• Like the Cover of an old Book,
• Its Contents torn out.
• And Stript of its Lettering Gilding.
• Lies here. Food for Worms.
• But the Work shall not be lost
• For it will (as he Believd) Appear once More
• In a New and More Elegant Edition
• Revised and Corrected
• By the Author.

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• For more information, search for Day of the Dead
  on wikipedia.org