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.
In as much as funeral plans differ depending on cultures, there does not exist a universal demand plan for a funeral. There are differing customs as observed with varying international localities. For the Chinese, the bigger the number of attending people, the higher the luck a family attains. Attending numbers represent the level of prosperity the deceased shall attain in their afterlife. This leads to hiring of mourners to grace funeral ceremonies for those that can afford this.
In the Philippines and for the Pilipino around the world, funerals last for days, a minimum of three to as many as seven. Many people in attendance for the ceremony remain until the entire ceremony is over. Concerning Haitians, a deceased persons family members take full responsibility for a large part of the funeral planning. This involves dressing or preparing the deceased body in readiness for burial. Displays or expressions of grief have need suppression until all the possessions a departed owned have left their home.
During Amish community funerals, the entire town or village shares the event. Most of the families make the choices where traditional funeral planning takes place at the funeral home. They focus on simplicity where a simple box made of wood is used. There is also no cosmetic work done on the deceased. Other things such as ornate gravestones, flowers or even mourning dress codes are a bare minimum.
Cremation is virtually universal in Thailand. Rites include preparing the body for the ceremony with respective family members placing coins in the deceased mouth. White thread ties the feet and hands of the deceased. Candles, money and flowers go into their hands. Additional monetary gifts and flowers go onto the deceased 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.
In as much as funeral plans differ depending on cultures, there does not exist a universal demand plan for a funeral. There are differing customs as observed with varying international localities. For the Chinese, the bigger the number of attending people, the higher the luck a family attains. Attending numbers represent the level of prosperity the deceased shall attain in their afterlife. This leads to hiring of mourners to grace funeral ceremonies for those that can afford this.
In the Philippines and for the Pilipino around the world, funerals last for days, a minimum of three to as many as seven. Many people in attendance for the ceremony remain until the entire ceremony is over. Concerning Haitians, a deceased persons family members take full responsibility for a large part of the funeral planning. This involves dressing or preparing the deceased body in readiness for burial. Displays or expressions of grief have need suppression until all the possessions a departed owned have left their home.
During Amish community funerals, the entire town or village shares the event. Most of the families make the choices where traditional funeral planning takes place at the funeral home. They focus on simplicity where a simple box made of wood is used. There is also no cosmetic work done on the deceased. Other things such as ornate gravestones, flowers or even mourning dress codes are a bare minimum.
Cremation is virtually universal in Thailand. Rites include preparing the body for the ceremony with respective family members placing coins in the deceased mouth. White thread ties the feet and hands of the deceased. Candles, money and flowers go into their hands. Additional monetary gifts and flowers go onto the deceased 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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