On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 at 14:26, Brian M. Sperlongano <[email protected]> wrote:
> I note that "visitation room" is a term that describes "A room designated > in the funeral home for the deceased to lie before the funeral so that > people can view the deceased." > I hadn't come across the term in the UK, but that could be because I have little interest in that sort of thing. Conveniently, it carries no religious connotation. > It's funny you should say that. :) Meaning 3 given in https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/visitation is "An encounter with supernatural beings such as ghosts or aliens." Meaning 5 is "A punishment or blessing ordained by God." It also has the problem that it has "room" in the name but is intended to be applied to a building which may have several such rooms. And then there is the fact that the emphasis is on those attending to view the corpse even though in some cases there are no attendees. I'd go with "place to view corpses" since the corpse is pretty much guaranteed to be there even if nobody comes to look at it. -- Paul
_______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
