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mercredi 29 avril 2015

International Funeral Rites And 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 all funeral planning differ in accordance to individuals, there are no culturally universal demands for funerals to be the same. There are differing funeral customs observed internationally. In China, the number of people attending a funeral apparently increases the levels of luck a family will have. It represents how well a deceased will prosper in their afterlife. Professional hired mourners attend some funerals to increase attendance numbers in this regard.

Where Philippines is concerned, funeral rites honouring the deceased take between three and seven days. Many people come for the ceremony and stay for entire ceremony. For the Haitians, the deceased family members have the sole responsibility for the large part of the planning of the funeral. This covers preparing and dressing the deceased in preparation for the burial. Expressions and displays of grief remain suppressed until all possessions the deceased owned leave their home.

In Amish community based funerals, everybody in the town shares everything about the event. The families are responsibility for particular choices as far as traditional funeral plans are concerned and which take place in a funeral home. Simplicity is the theme of focus and a simple wooden box is used. There is very little cosmetic work on a deceased body. Ornate stones, flowers and such things as mourning codes remain at a bare minimum.

Within the Thai community, cremation is almost universal. Customs include preparing a body for the rites with members of the family placing coins onto a deceased mouth. A white thread ties hands and feet of a deceased. Flowers, money and candles go into the hands. Additional flowers and monetary gifts adorn a deceased pyre as it goes into cremations.

Bolivians have traditional customs that happen to be unique and not seen anywhere else in the world. They include separate ceremonies performed for a deceased clothing. This customary rite releases the deceased soul to the after-world according believes Bolivians hold.

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.

Incorporation of traditional and religious rites is a means for personalizing funeral-planning efforts. In most cases, the ceremony helps families place bigger emphasis on wishes and beliefs held by the deceased. In efforts to adhere to the time-honoured rites and practices, people sometimes instruct their families on how to go about their funerals. Other incorporate them in their wills.




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