Wake (ceremony)

Traditionally, a wake involves family and friends keeping watch over the body of the dead person, usually in the home of the deceased.

It allows one last interaction with the dead, providing a time for the living to express their thoughts and feelings with the deceased.

[3] The emotional tone of a wake is sometimes seen as more positive than a funeral due to the socially supportive atmosphere and the focus on the life rather than the death of the deceased.

[5] The term wake was originally used to denote a prayer vigil, often an annual event held on the feast day of the saint to whom a parish church was dedicated.

[8] Shane McCorristine writes that the original purposes of an Irish wake were to honour the dead, to celebrate their life, to ensure that death had really occurred, to guard the body from evil, and to placate their soul.

A leading keening woman (bean chaointe) chanted verses and led a choral death wail, in which the other keeners joined while swaying rhythmically.

American culture and influence started to find a place in a Philippine context by using various mediums, specifically the use of free trade.

[12] With the then-new educational system, young Filipinos were taught different American cultural devices such as their songs, values and ideals, and their subsequent assimilation of many of their traditions.

Noting the crowd, the emotion, and alcohol, Tom Watson, writing in Forbes, said of The Concert for New York City, "The Garden was the biggest Irish wake in history.