The meaning behind why Tongans have a specific dress code when attending the funeral. How hierarchy plays a big role and how the Tongans memorializes a death in the family. Nofo’aki putu (home of the deceased) friends, families and many churches will come to the home of the deceased presenting their gifts to the family. The gifts range from money, food, Tongan valuables like mats and blankets (Nauwee). Your gifts and presence show your respect and condolences to the family of the deceased.
When you think of traditional funerals, you think of an all black, solemn ceremony. It is usually taken place in a church or funeral home, the coffin is carried in on a hearse, and there is a long line of weeping family members who are getting ready to say their final goodbyes. However, nowadays, those types of traditional funerals are an event of the past. Now, many people are choosing the kind of funeral they want while they are still a live, and there are multiple companies that are more than willing to cater to their needs. I took it upon myself to do some further research on the topic of alternative funerals, and I came across a website called thefuneralsource.org.
Within Emily Dickinson’s life, many of her past friends and family past away around her on a regular basis, which could conclude to the reason why death is described as a usual and cherishable thing in ‘The last night that she lived.’ The second stanza reveals the intensity of the poet’s reaction to the death. The quote ‘We noticed the smallest things’ depicts the eeriness that is in the environment as death has caused everything to become still which makes the narrator notice the minor details. The quote also shows that after a death, people see the environment from a different perspective due to the emotions causing the smaller things to take emphasis. The third stanza discusses the poet's feelings about death. It portrays the poet's jealousy of the death Woman because she died peacefully while others has to live and face the ordeals of life.
Many families across the whole entire world facing many challenges like funerals every day. Some of those families come together to support one another while some of those families fall apart when the will pops up. Then some funeral for families let them come together in a real way for the first time in many years. However, Clays and Thibeaux didn’t let a will or anything stop them from coming together to support one another to make sure that the funeral would be great. The arrival at the Kinchen funeral home with all the intermediate family members in their black clothes walking through the front door towards the body.
They say in order to better understand this ritual you have to look at Zoroastrian or Parsi ideas of sanitation, segregation, purification, and cleanliness. When a man is on the point of death his relations send for two or more priests, who assemble around the bed of the dying person and say a prayer for the forgiveness of his sins. If the sick person is able to assist him in saying the prayer they believe that they will have a happier death. Next they is put into a suit in which he is planned to die in. This suit of clothes is washed by the family and not by anyone else.
Leaving our legacies is what we aspire as human beings for we do not wish to be forgotten, or to be ignored. The novel Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart and other secondary sources provides contextual evidences of why man needs to memorialize lost. The story revolves around Klara a spinster who endured the suffering of lost. Man memorializes the dead because of personal attachment, their desire to give meaning for the sacrifices of the dead and to set them as an example for generations to come. Man memorializes the dead because of personal attachment.
There was also a picture of the dead on a bier. Men and women had different roles in the burial of there dead. Women had to wash the body and wrap it in cloth and decorations. They would put herbs and flowers around the body. Three days after a person’s death they would carry it to the cemetery.
Mamie Till had a open casket funeral for her son. She wanted the world to see what had happened to her son. She left the casket open after the funeral for those who would like to see the brutal beating of her son. Bradley
The purpose of the Smoke Party is to hire deceased person’s father’s clan as workers – siblings, cousins, and anyone that is considered family within the Funeral in a First Nation Territory 2 clan. The family usually takes care of the funeral details and is responsible for a lot of duties such as the clothing (who is washing and dressing?) grave site (the location, the appearance of it) transportation of body (who stays up with the deceased
William Faulkner writes “He aims for me to lie, he thought, again with the frantic grief and despair. And I will have to do hit”(226). Colonel Sartoris, nonetheless chose to be loyal to his family then to give Mr. Harris justice for his barn. A rose for Emily, the main character Emily wished to remain loyal to her father’s body by not surrendering his corpse. William Faulkner writes, “The day after his death all the ladies prepared to offer condolence and aid, as our custom.