Mourners

There were no mourners.

Mourners in Iceland gathered Sunday to bid a final farewell to 700-year-old Okjokull, the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change.

The disappearance of hundreds of small glaciers in the Alps was dramatized when hundreds of mourners recently attended what was dubbed a "funeral" to mark the loss of Switzerland's Pizol glacier.

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, silence the pianos and with muffled drum bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Friends, do you know that it is a sad thing to be torn from life at twenty, when you are full of strength and life, when you are loved by those whom you love, to leave mourners whose tearful eyes will weep until they must shut forever?

Mourners wear black at funerals.

Mourners paid their last respects Friday to late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as her casket was carried down the steps of the U.S. Capitol after she became the first woman to lie in state there.

Tens of thousands of mourners attended Matoub's funeral in his native village.