Lucy Dacus

I guess the point of that song 'Troublemaker, Doppelganger' is trying to navigate the worth of beauty and if it's hurtful or helpful to value beauty. If it's a curse or a blessing. Is that something really negative and morbid, like the hearse, or is it the limousine - a glamorous symbol of enjoying life?

American Musician

Shaffi Mather

There is a social stigma attached to ambulance services, mostly because ambulances in India are often used as hearses for carrying the dead rather than transporting patients. We made presentations to graduating students at various healthcare institutes, trying to debunk this myth.

Indian Businessman

Charlie Puth

I was carrying my friend in his casket to put him in the hearse, and I was thinking, 'I need to write a song for this guy, because he always told me I would have a No. 1 song.

Craig Kielburger

The children of Qunu stood for hours on the side of a brand new stretch of highway as they waited for the hearse carrying Nelson Mandela to come into view.

Canadian Activist

Norman Wisdom

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

English Comedian

Primarily used in the context of funerals, symbolizes the last journey of someone's life.

Funeral Context

The term often implies a solemn and respectful atmosphere, due to its association with death.

Solemnity

Hearses can differ by culture, such as motor vehicles or horse-drawn in some traditions.

Cultural Variations

Refers to a specific object in Christian rituals, and is not widely known outside this context.

Religious Symbol

Understand this usage is archaic and may not be common in modern references or conversations.

Historic Use

Be aware it's easy to confuse this meaning with more common use relating to funeral vehicles.

Confusion Alert

 When one of our residents dies, the mortuary men come, and as we're wheeling the body out through the garden, heading for the gate, we pause. Anyone who wants -- fellow residents, family, nurses, volunteers, the hearse drivers too, now --

What really matters at...

 over coffins during funerals as funeral rites developed so did the definition in the 16th century hearse refer to the support for the funeral pour the cloth over a coffee

Mysteries of vernacular:...

 the hearse thing to it just had to know that you had to leave a family member behind at that point that moment that second