In Nederland it is a normal option to arrange a temporary mourning room
("rouwkamer") in the house. Any room could be used. I don't think this counts
as a mappable amenity. Most people, though, use a permanent mourning facility,
usually with several viewing/mourning rooms because people do not die on
schedule one at a time.
Peter Elderson
> Op 5 nov. 2020 om 19:56 heeft Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]>
> het volgende geschreven:
>
>
> I'm not able to find any website which clearly talks about a specific
> "mourning room", though it is certainly documented that the front room of a
> house, often known as a "parlour" at the time, would be used to view the
> corpse of a deceased family member. This practice is still common in
> Southeast Asia, BTW. This room might also have been called a "sitting room",
> and now is likely the "living room".
>
> Do you have a link? Do you think that anyone in the 2000s is likely to be
> confused by the term amenity=mourning_room?
>
> -- Joseph Eisenberg
>
>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 10:36 AM Paul Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 18:19, Steve Doerr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 1:14 PM Paul Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 08:46, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> amenity=mourning_room
>>>>
>>>> Unacceptable. "Mourning room" was the old name for what is now
>>>> known as a "living room" (and was also known as a "parlour"), A
>>>> room in somebody's house which was pressed into use for the
>>>> display of a corpse when needed.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think you'll find that's a 'morning room', defined by the OED as 'a room
>>> used as a sitting room during the morning or early part of the day'.
>>
>> Those existed too, if you were rich enough to have a very large house
>> and could move from room to room to follow the sun. For most
>> people, there was only one sitting room which also served as a place
>> to put a corpse. I thought I gave a link explaining this.
>>
>> --
>> Paul
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