Death funeral in every country is different. It is influenced by the cultural habit and the old human culture. Death funeral is the ceremony or ritual connected with the way we act the body of dead person, such as burial, cremation, and mummyfication. This custom relates to the complex of belief to respect someone dead. The way people buried, cremate, and mummified is different. The funeral ritual is influenced by the common belief, economy, geographic of the country. For example, the death funeral will be different from the country which consist of different belief. Its ritual also related to the range of migration in that place. In America, there are several ways to act the body of dead person. The first is burial services. Burial is a ritual …show more content…
Someone will be hired to take body away from the place where that person died, after that, he prepare it and place it in a casket. The nuclear family look at the death body and the neighbors and friends send a card or letter in order to honor the deceased. The funeral is usually opened to anyone to attend. After that, there is a time to talk with family and snack is provided. The cremony will be held in the church. Relative and friends arrive with all black dress. The prayer will give some speech in remembering that person. The burial may be done at a seperate time with only cose family attending. After that, the body of death is delivered to the graveyard, the nuclear family place roses on the casket before the burial (Brita and Kurnia. 2017:87). Todays, suprisingly, cremation surpassed the burial rates for the first time in United State. Cremation has become a new tradition. Based on National Funeral Directors Association in CCN (2017) said that over half of Americans, 50,2% chose cremation. Cremation has popular in several cities such as Washington, Nevada, and Hawaii but it is not found in Mississipi, Kentucky, Lousiana, and Tennessee. In indonesia, after someone dies, the Ambulance will deliver it to home from hospital. After that, the neighbor will prepare the place where the body of human death is purified. Then, the body of death is wrapped by seven layer of shrouded. Because of the majority of indonesian are moslem, so, the burial is opened to anyone to attend, the process is done and led by the
“In most human society's death is an extremely important cultural and social phenomenon, sometimes more important than birth” (Ohnuki-Tierney, Angrosino, & Daar et al. 1994). In the United States of America, when a body dies it is cherished, mourned over, and given respect by the ones that knew the person. It is sent to the morgue and from there the family decides how the body should be buried or cremated based on...
Special foods such as candy, breads, and buns, they are often baked in the shapes of skulls with icing. The use of puppets and masks are very popular as well. The belief that family members who have died will return to their gravesite that is why the flowers and gifts are placed there. The warm social environment the colorful setting, and the abundance of food, drinks and good company are the ceremony of the dead. It has pleasant overtones for most observers.
Reading multiple different journals and articles about how individual cultures interpret death, it has come to a conclusion that many cultures have many contrasting views and perspectives. Some cultures would take their practices to extreme levels, which included doing stuff to the physical body, where in today’s era, would not be right. The central desire to write this paper is to learn about the different beliefs and practices that happen in different part of the countries, in today’s time and from the past.
When someone dies their bones are burned and crushed into ash and consumed by the relatives. It puts a persons soul at peace to find a resting place within their family, it would be an abomination to bury them in the ground. Once this ceremony is finished the person is gone. Their name or person is never to be mentioned again.
Death comes to all in the end, shrouded in mystery, occasionally bringing with it pain, and while some may welcome its finality, others may fight it with every ounce of their strength. Humans have throughout the centuries created death rituals to bring them peace and healing after the death of a loved one.
Although most individuals at one point in time of their life will experience death, each individual may have different views on death. How one handles death and bereavement of death can be influenced by many different factors such as tradition, region, religion, or culture. Some individuals may view death as morbid, other individuals may view death as a celebration of life. The Liberian population views death in a positive way, Liberians view death as a "totality of life" (DeSpelder & Strickland, 2015).
After the death of a person the eyes are closed, so the person can finally rest in peace. Some Jews place the body of the deceased on the floor immediately after death. This is done to cool the body to slow the deterioration of the body and also fulfill the biblical prognostication "for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return"(Genesis 3:19). A candle is then lit and placed near the corpse head to show respect to the soul that departed. In the past twenty-six candles were light around the body; twenty-six is the Jewish numerical number meaning "God." Today this is done only to show respect to the dead. Jewish people treat a close family members death similar to Americans. Relatives and friends of the deceased feel great distress, sorrow, and pain.
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One may even choose hot to hold a funeral. If one does choose to have no funeral, it is now acceptable, and if they wishes to provide one, that is their option too. However there are still things that relate to the economy, expediency, and influence of others. Death is such an unpleasant occurrence now, eventuality now many people neglect to do much planning for the disposal of their body. Too, death can strike suddenly and force upon a multitude of decisions, which, due to the unexpected trauma, people are unprepared to make within the few days that are available or expected to. People do not want to appear as if they do not sincerely care for their loved ones; and so they make rash, sometimes unwise judgments and decisions. However in older days, Native Americans did not have much to make decisions on. If part of a certain tribe, whenever someone died there was a typical, ceremonial event that would occur. Funerals were never a personal even until later in human life. This all shows how modern death customs have greatly changed over the past many
Funerals are very important ceremonies in Hindu tradition. Hindus see cremation as an act of sacrifice to God and...
The funeral ceremonies and burials of the Igbo people are extremely complex, the most elaborate of all being the funeral of a chief. However, there are several kinds of deaths that are considered shameful, and in these circumstances no burial is provided at all. Women who die in labour, children who die before they have no teeth, those who commit suicide and those who die in the sacred month – for these people their funeral ceremony consists of being thrown into a bush.
While reviewing "The Funeral" the first thing that became apparent was the title. A funeral is ceremony held in connection with the burial of a dead person. So already just by looking at the title we become aware that we are dealing with a dead body. Death, in some cultures, is the separation of the body from the soul. The soul continues to live and may even find shelter in another body.
When death occurs, the body is prepared for viewing. People of the same gender prepare the body by laying their “hands across the chest, closing the eyelids, anointing the body with oil, and placing flower garlands around it.” (Leming & Dickinson, 2011, pg. 384). According to Leming and Dickinson, Hindus believe that cremation is “an act of sacrifice” because they are offering their body to God. The body is usually cremated on the bank of a sacred river. The book, Understanding dying, death, and bereavement offers an “invocation” that would be close to what a priest would recite, “Fire, you were lighted by him, so may he be lighted from you, that he may gain the regions of celestial bliss. May this offering prove auspicious.” Leming and Dickinson (2011) state that between 10-31 days post cremation, a feast (shraddha) is shared among mourners and priests. Shraddhas can last hours to days, depending on the wealth of the family. Once this shraddha is over, the mourning period comes to a close. It is said that the funeral is the second most important ritual, following a wedding, and that many families spend all the money they have on them, leading to impoverishment (Leming & Dickinson, 2011, p.
A funeral is an important event that should be planned with careful consideration, as each person only gets one to celebrate his or her life. People often die expectantly and suddenly leaving any funeral and burial arrangements in the hands of friends or relatives. These friends or family of the deceased may or may not have a good understanding of what the deceased would have preferred in his or her post death arrangements. A person planning his or her own funeral can prevent this guessing game and insure the arrangements are to their specifications.
Each culture deals with death differently than others. Some cultures believe that if you die as a child or an adult it is a bad death but if you were to die as an elderly person then that is considered to be a good death. This would be considered a good death because they believe that once you have reached the elderly age that you have had the time to fulfill your purpose for life and you can die happy and peacefully. While there are a decent amount of cultures that react negatively to death there are also many cultures that celebrate the death of a person. They turn their death into a celebration during the time of the funeral.