The bereaved struggle to separate themselves from the dead through ritual and mourning.

NPR: 'Republic of Suffering' Author Drew Gilpin Faust

The Procession is a vibrant example of how a collective ceremony can unite a city through ritual enactment of its history and beliefs.

UNESCO: Culture

For a week before the final Nongkrem dance, Sing and his sister, who took over as priestess after their mother's death two years ago, go through ritual prayers, dances and sacrifices to propitiate the gods and seek blessings for the people.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | A Royal Tribe Under Threat

Why give a pass to taxpayers who go through some ritual involving a make-believe "exchange"?

FORBES: Tax Doctors

But his second worry is that, by not going through the ritual of a physical examination, doctors are depriving patients and their families of something that makes them feel better.

FORBES: Medicine, Caught Between Algorithms And Rituals

On 28 February he will fly off to the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, where he will stay while Church leaders go through the complicated ritual of choosing a successor.

BBC: Pope Benedict thanks public for 'love and prayers'

As if it couldn't get better, as "Linsanity" exploded in Manhattan last week, the news emerged that the point guard, new in town and unsettled at his job, was suffering through that humbling but familiar metropolitan ritual: He was sleeping on other people's couches.

WSJ: Jeremy Lin: You're Not Linsane. He's Good.

Phew, here it is: The NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis, an annual, ultra-commodified ritual in which the league puts its incoming class through an elaborate, televised entrance exam.

WSJ: NFL Combine: Football Is Back! (Wait: Already?)��Jason Gay

Tens of thousands of pilgrims walking from Arafat to Muzdalifah -- where they pick up pebbles for the stoning of the devil ritual -- painfully and reluctant part to let our car through.

CNN: Arafat: The climax of Hajj