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mercredi 29 avril 2015

An Introduction To International Funeral Customs

By Alta Alexander


Making plans for funerals is not something unique to the United States or western cultures. There has always been rites and ways to celebrate and honour the passage of life into death. They have around as long as humans have been in existence. Most of the funeral rites are rooted in various regions. International funeral customs that still exist today have become a means of unique celebrations for various countries and cultures.

Whereas most funeral plans are different depending on individual cultures, no strict universal demands for funerals are around. Differing rites, when observed, vary with international localities. In China, how big the number of people in attendance apparently determines the luck levels a family will get. It is a representation of how well the deceased shall prosper in the afterlife. Professionally hired groups of mourners come to funerals to add the attendance numbers as a result.

Where the Philippines is concerned, funeral ceremonies in honour of a deceased, last from three to more than seven days. It is also common to have big numbers of visitors coming and staying for the entire ceremony. In Haiti, the family members have to take responsibility for most of the hands on planning for a funeral. This includes dressing and preparing the deceased body for the burial. Displays and expressions of grief are often set aside until every possession owned by the deceased leaves the home.

All the members of the Amish community in a town or village come out to share every aspect of the ceremony. The family takes full responsibility in as far as every traditional plan is concerned and where most rites happen in the funeral home. Simplicity is the basic tenet where even a wooden but simple box is often used. Very little work in cosmetic form happens on the body. Flowers and ornate stones are discouraged. Mourners observe bare minimum mourning dressing codes.

Members of the Thai community observe almost universal cremation funeral rites. Their customs have certain distinct actions such as placing of coins on a deceased mouth by their family. White threads tie the feet and hands of the deceased. Money, candles and flowers adorn the deceased hands. Additionally, monetary gifts and flowers go on to a cremation pyre.

Bolivians observe traditional funeral codes seen nowhere else worldwide. These include performing special and separate burial rites for the deceased clothes. Such rites, according to Bolivians, assist in releasing the soul of those departed into the after-world.

In many cases, internationally observed funeral rites are simply extensions of funeral plans most people are familiar about. There is also collective reverence for a deceased and attention to their personal items. It is comes as an opportunity for families and friends to gather together and mourn irrespective of where they are all respectively traveling from.

Incorporating religious or traditional customs is a way to personalize a funeral planning effort. In many cases, this ceremony assists families assent to the beliefs and wishes of the deceased. In efforts at adherence to honoured practices and rites, people often instruct their respective families about how to go about carrying out their funerals. Some incorporate these instructions within their wills.




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