It appears that Celebrity Death has gone too far-This is evidenced by the Death of the young starlet Brittany Murphy.
Has our thirst for celebrity death gone too far wth the death of Brittany Murphy.
It has been all too much for American’s Perception of Death and bloggers on the Internet. Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Billy Mays, John Hughes, Ted Kennedy… all have been changed in death because of the internet and twitter.
“….. you’d think the whole of “Who’s Who” had vanished in a single gigantic puff of glittery smoke. You can’t really blame CNN or TMZ or the army of bloggers who host these elaborate public wakes: They’re simply giving us what we want. We don’t just grieve for celebrities anymore; we indulge in orgies that turn the dead into the people we need them to be so we can assuage our anxieties about death, both our own and America’s. Do not ask for whom the blog tweets; it tweets for thee”via www.esquire.com
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That said Funeral Arrangements have not been made public for Brittany Murphy
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President Obama let Kennedy Speak to Congress from grave via letter
President Barack Obama let Senator Ted Kennedy speak from the grave on 9.09.09. This is the second time Kennedy spoke from the Grave. First he spoke through a letter at a Arlington grave side funeral service via letter to the Pope. 2nd he spoke in a letter given to Obama after his death. Portions of that letter were read during Obama’s speech before Congress on Tuesday night.
“I received one of those letters a few days ago. It was from our beloved friend and colleague, Ted Kennedy. He had written it back in May, shortly after he was told that his illness was terminal. He asked that it be delivered upon his death.
In it, he spoke about what a happy time his last months were, thanks to the love and support of family and friends, his wife, Vicki, and his children, who are here tonight . And he expressed confidence that this would be the year that health care reform – “that great unfinished business of our society,” he called it – would finally pass. He repeated the truth that health care is decisive for our future prosperity, but he also reminded me that “it concerns more than material things.” “What we face,” he wrote, “is above all a moral issue; at stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country.”
This was indeed a sad thing. The President of the United States using a Senator in the grave to sell his Health Care Plan.
Revealed Here is the PDF of the Senator Edward Kennedy Funeral Program. All the Scriptures, Readings and Music is all here available with a click of the mouse.
Here is the Full Funeral Program for the Ted Kennedy Funeral Mass. This is not the Funeral Program that was given to the Congregation in the Mission Church in Boston. It does include great detail.
“Ted Kennedy Funeral Arrangments Released
10:05 a.m. – Extended Kennedy family arrives
10:10 a.m. – Distinguished visitors are seated
10:15 a.m. – The President, Vice President and former Presidents seated
10:20 a.m. – Mrs. Vicki Kennedy and Immediate Family arrive
Kennedy Brothers
Honorary pall bearers greet family outside church:
Melody Barnes
Honorable Justice Stephen Breyer
David Burke
Ranny Cooper
Greg Craig
Senator John C. Culver
Stephanie Cutter
Congressman William Delahunt Senator Christopher J. Dodd
Ken Feinberg
Lee Fentress
Wyche Fowler
Tim Hanan
Claude Hooton
Dr. Larry Horowitz
Senator John F. Kerry
Paul G. Kirk, Jr.
Kathy Kruse
Nick Littlefield
Congressman Edward Markey
Eric Mogilnicki
Michael Myers
Carey Parker
Honorable Edmund Reggie
Senator Donald W. Riegle
Dr. Larry Ronan
Senator James Sasser
Robert Shrum
Barbara Souliotis
10:30 a.m. – Funeral Procession Begins
Entrance Hymn: “Holy God We Praise Thy Name”
Celebrants:
His Eminence Sean P. Cardinal O’Malley, OFM CAP, Archbishop of Boston.
Fr. J. Donald Monan, S.J., Chancellor, Boston College.
Guidance note: Former President of Boston College and Kennedy family friend. Fr. Monan is the principle celebrant of the funeral mass.
Fr. Gerry Creedon, Pastor, Saint Charles Borromeo Church, Arlington, Virginia.
Guidance note: Longtime Kennedy family friend and concelebrant of the funeral mass.
Fr. Percival D’ Silva, Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, Kensington, Maryland.
Guidance note: Kennedy family friend and priest that performed the Blessed Sacraments for Caroline and Curran Raclin while at The Blessed Sacrament church in Northwes Washington, D.C. Fr. D’Silva is a concelebrant of the funeral mass.
Rev. Mark R. Hession, Our Lady of Victory, Centerville, Masssachusetts.
Guidance note: Senator and Mrs. Kennedy’s priest on Cape Cod and close friend. Fr. Hession offered mass for Senator Kennedy nearly every Sunday this year. Fr. Hession is a concelebrant of the funeral mass.
Rev. Donald MacMillian, Chaplain, Boston College.
Guidance note: Family friend, who frequently celebrated mass for Senator Kennedy. Concelebrant of funeral mass.
Very Rev. Raymond Collins, C.SS.R. Pastor, Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Pall bearers:
Kara Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy, Jr.
Patrick J. Kennedy
G. Curran Raclin, Jr.
Caroline R. Raclin
Caroline Kennedy
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Christopher Lawford
Ed Michael Reggie
Bobby Shriver
Stephen E. Smith, Jr. Immediate family:
Mrs. Victoria Kennedy
Ted Kennedy, Jr.
Kiki Kennedy
Teddy Kennedy, II
Kiley Kennedy
Kara Kennedy
Max Kennedy
Grace Kennedy
Patrick Kennedy
Caroline Raclin
Curran Raclin
Edmund and Doris Reggie
Mrs. Jean Kennedy Smith
William Kennedy Smith
Mrs. Ethel Kennedy
Honorary pall bearers (see names above)
First Reading:
Curran Raclin, the Senator’s stepson
Old Testament
The Book of Wisdom 3:1-9
Responsorial Psalm:
Kara Kennedy
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 72
Second Reading:
Caroline Raclin, the Senator’s stepdaughter
New Testament, Letter of Paul to the Romans 8:31b-35, 37-39
Gospel:
Father Hession
Matthew 25:31-32A, 34-40
The Prayers of the Faithful:
(Guidance note: readers will be reading excerpts of the Senator’ own words)
Kiki Kennedy
Kiley Kennedy
Grace Allen
Max Allen
Jack Schlossberg
Robin Lawford
Kym Smith
Anthony Shriver
Rory Kennedy
Teddy M. Kennedy II
Liturgy of the Eucharist
Offertory: The Senator’s grandchildren
At Offertory: J.S. BACH Sarabande from Cello Suite No. 6
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
At Communion: FRANCK “Panis Angelicus”
Placido Domingo, tenor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
James David Christie, organ
BRAHMS “Let Nothing Ever Grieve Thee”
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
John Oliver, conductor
James David Christie, organ
SHUBERT “Ave Maria”
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
James David Christie, organ
Senator Edward Kennedy
Remembrances: Ted Kennedy, Jr.
Patrick J. Kennedy
Eulogy: President Barack Obama
Final Commendation: His Eminence Sean P. Cardinal O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston
Recessional: “America the Beautiful”
1:00 p.m. – Departure from church to Hanscom Air Force Base
1:30 p.m. – Departure from Hanscom Air Force Base to Andrews Air Force Base”
Senator Edward Kennedy will be buried at Arlington National cemetery
Senator Ted “Edward”Kennedy Funeral update- There will be only Four of Five Living Presidents at the Ted Kennedy Funeral Mass on Saturday. Reports state that Bush 41, George H W Bush will not able to make the trip.
“A spokesman for Bush said Friday that he and his wife, Barbara, decided not to attend Kennedy’s funeral after learning their son, former President George W. Bush, would attend.
Jim McGrath says the 85-year-old Bush feels his son’s presence would “amply and well represent” the family Saturday.”
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