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From the lonely widower who makes a weekly pilgrimage to the grave site to the sequined, sideburned fanatics at their annual Graceland vigil, people find comfort in the physical space of cemeteries, which, with their rolling lawns and rows of stone slabs, offer a tangible connection to souls departed.
This week the Enquirer has a story about the "deathbed vigil" for Larry Fortensky, Elizabeth Taylor's most recent former husband, the one-time construction worker she met when they were both in rehab.
Notwithstanding cable TV's frenetic electronic vigil, with station editors clearly hoping for a Di-like bounty of extra viewers, the attempts by a series of anchors to launch a national wave of emotion has failed.
The experience is disorienting--part First Amendment vigil, part X-rated movie.
References Bright 1994, 1995; Chabran and Chabran 1996; Gradante 1985; Griffith 1988; Marks 1980; Parsons 1999; Plascencia 1983; Stone 1990; Thomas 1994; Vigil 1991