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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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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