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Funerals are a dark, gloomy, and sometimes emotional subject for many people. Death rituals like funerals are times where we as a community come together to mourn someone’s loss; it is depressing and often turbulent. But we often overlook the positive aspects of events like these in favor of their negative ones. We can’t ignore the grief that comes with funerals and loss, but we can investigate how funerals are beneficial to those trying to cope with bereavement. In fact, funerals and death rites have many psychological benefits. This is pervasive to grief rituals no matter the culture or the time period: for example, the people of Ancient Greece and the people of modern-day America.

Burying individuals have impacted the people of ancient Hawaiians greatly. As in other cultures, recognizing a deceased person played a key role in the ancient society, whether it was a strong leader or a stranger. This was no different for the Hawaiians, as death was a matter not taken lightly. Even though emotion is common while observing burial, native Hawaiian had taken it to another level. “Relatives or close ones to the deceased person would tear away hair, knock out teeth with a stone, scar their skin, or even cut off an ear, especially if the high chief had passed” (Fullard-Leo). However, Hawaiians also saw a significance when a relative had been

Most Roma communities have complicated and highly codified mourning rituals that involve congregating with representatives of other families from the same ‘nation’ or ethnic sub-group for a wake that may last several days, avoiding cooked food and greetings, and commemorations at regular intervals until one year after the burial.

Death is part of life that affects everyone regardless of race, tribe, religion or geographical area. Different communities view death in particular and unique ways. Explanations of the traditions of Hawaiians specifically rituals performed during death. The culture of Hawaiians is mostly influenced by their geographical location e.g. their nearness to large water bodies, mountains and valleys. Religion is a tool for answering the mysteries of life related death and is a unifying factor. Religion defines the rules and regulations of communities forming a tradition that is passed from one generation to another (Akindes, 2001).

As you know all the different religions have special kind of funerals or mourning rituals for their heroes, pastors, and their legends. In this way the antique Iranian culture is full of the legends Heros, religious leaders, and war commanders that their names are very precious to people and is a major value which causes and creates national pride. On the other hand, these losses and sorrows are recorded in people’s mind and heart. If you take part in this type of rituals, you can visit

Death and burial was a close companion for people in the ancient world, because of their short life expectancy. They developed ceremonies and rituals centred around the dying, the dead and their survivors. The practices adopted by ancient peoples allowed individuals to cope with the mysteries of death and the fear associated with it. When bodies are not mummified their skeletons can help Archaeologists discover information about age, physical fitness and to some extent, diet of the corpse (through the preservation of stomach contents.) Burials usually take place with in a short time of the person's death.

There are many different types of people in the world. Different hair color, skin color, languages, religions, talents, etc. but there is one thing we all have in common, we all die. There is no one who can out run the long arm of death. People can however, have different attitudes and feelings towards death. For example, “Some of us know for sure that death is the implacable enemy of life. Others of us know for sure that death is the portal though which we enter a higher form of existence,” (Kastenbaum, 2012, p. 38). With these different feelings about death come different ways to mourn or celebrate the life of those lost. In Tibet there is a ritual performed by Tibetan Buddhist known as “Sky Burials”. The purpose of this paper will be to discuss the details of this ritual and where it originated.

According to an article submitted to the Berkeley Planning Journal, approximately 800,000 gallons of formaldehyde is buried in the United States every year. To put the amount of this hazardous chemical that Americans use to bury their people in perspective, it is enough to fill “one and a quarter Olympic-sized swimming pools each year” (Calderone). Unfortunately, this is only one of the many issues that is hurting the environment and has arised from modern burials. Because of the negative environmental effects that modern burial customs are causing, Americans should switch back to natural burials in order to decrease the impact that modern burial practices have left on Earth.

Whether death is sudden or prolonged, anticipated or unexpected, it leaves many family members and friends feeling the effects of loss. Eventually they are expected to come to terms with the death and eventually let go and move on. All human cultures participate in ritual mourning, a set of symbolic rites and ceremonies associated with death. The rituals associated with death have a clear and important function. According to sociologists Victor Marshall and Judith Levy, “Rituals provide a…means through which societies simultaneously seek to control the disruptions of death and to make it meaningful…The funeral exists as a formal means to accomplish the work of completing a biography, managing grief, and

Have you ever wondered how other culture’s funerals play out? Diverse cultures have different religions. Therefore, funerals and mourning look different depending on their religion. The Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mourning and funerals are strange, fascinating, and somewhat gross.

Cultural practices take a bit of dignity in the article during the ceremony of the burial. Every rite has to be passed after the death and before the burial of the Queen. In the burial rites, women are given the first opportunity to give respect to their fellow women through engaging in different activities at the time. Culture and norms play a significant role in this article, rites followed from one to other as the culture demands. For instance, the author states that the Mussulman rite demands that “a fire must be lighted Over against the corpse, and must be allowed to burn out before the corpse is removed” (P. 206). Most important is that the Indian or the Oude culture being demonstrated in every rite that was performed. Also, the culture and norms that this article explains majorly are the death rites of the Oude, especially in respect of a member of the royal

During the times of the Ancient Romans, Epicureans and Stoics it was understood that death and the disposal of the body were vitally important to all beliefs, these views on death also display the contrasting portrayals of each ideology as to how the deceased were handled and the influential theories revolving around death.

Mankind’s history of burial practices and funeral customs are as old as civilization itself. There is no specific way to planning a funeral. Every civilization and culture has provided for their dead in different ways. Religion and personal beliefs play an important role in the burial practices and funeral customs of a given culture or civilization. Furthermore, each civilization and cultured ever studied have three things in common: some type of funeral rites, rituals, and ceremonies; A sacred place for the dead; and memorialization of the dead. As far back as the time of Christ, burials have been noted to take place. In time burial and funeral customs have become very distinct, interesting and

Today the society is looking for ways to ease life and to find solutions for problems which oppress our lives and make it hard to live through. Because of many reasons, the traditional burials in this century are becoming a problem. (Prothero,2001). The fact that they cover a lot of land to build cemeteries and other things that are attached to these traditional burials is enough for us to search for a practical solution. About a century ago the term "cremation" was unknown to many people. It is believed that it began to be practiced during the early Stone Age and still exists today. Since that time cremations have been made all

By investigating the piacular rites of the Australian aborigines, Durkheim suggests that social rituals create both a sense of grief and group duty. Primitive forms of mourning consist of “beating, bruising, lacerating, and burning oneself…sometimes [to the extent that] they do not survive their wounds” (402). Through these acts of self-inflicted pain and torment, members of society partake in a form of re-presenting the dichotomy of life and death. The emotional rites seem to stem from society itself, for the rites embody the rites of