Very public and demonstrative
(Gen. 23:2; 37:29-35). Period, seven to seventy days (Gen. 1:3; 1 Sam. 31:13). Hired mourners (EccL 12:5; Matt. 9:23). Methods, weeping, tearing clothes, wearing sackcloth, sprinkling with ashes or dust, shaving head, plucking beard, fasting, laceration.