page_title: State funeral
section_title: Brazil
hierarchical_section_title: State funeral / Americas / Brazil
caption_attribution_description: Brasília - O cortejo, com o corpo do ex-vice-presidente da República José Alencar,chega ao Palácio do Planalto, onde acontece o velório e cerimônias de homenagem
context_page_description: A state funeral is a public funeral ceremony, observing the strict rules of protocol, held to honour people of national significance. State funerals usually include much pomp and ceremony as well as religious overtones and distinctive elements of military tradition. Generally, state funerals are held in order to involve the general public in a national day of mourning after the family of the deceased gives consent. A state funeral will often generate mass publicity from both national and global media outlets.
context_section_description: State funerals were held for the President-elect of Brazil, Tancredo Neves, who died before taking office. The former Vice President of Brazil, José Alencar, was also buried with a head of state's honor, after his passing due to cancer. Other than heads of state, personalities such as the Formula 1 racing champion Ayrton Senna, dead in 1994 after a crash during a race, and the architect Oscar Niemeyer, who died in 2012 at the age of 104, among others.
caption: State funeral of José Alencar, former Vice President of Brazil, at the Planalto Palace, Brasília.
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