how are funerals like in your country
funeral in zagreb
pompous and depressing
>>59848896
Usually we go to a church and have the priest or whatever talk about the dead person. Then everyone goes to the cemetery to bury the casket. Then everyone eats lunch.
[spoiler]Then we throw away the dead person's stuff the next day :^)[/spoiler]
>>59850182
How the hell do these things work now?
>>59848896
Really depends on region, religious tradition, and whether or not someone was in the military.
Any veteran can get a military honor guard, with all the flag folding and gun firing rituals that entails.
In the western US, we see very few funerals (where the body is present) and more "memorial services" (same thing, just no dead body).
Whatever the ceremony, they seem to be getting more and more informal since people aren't as religious and don't need all the magic rituals to keep the dead from rising or whatever.
>>59850628
Cost too. Burying someone and having a mass can cost 10k or more if you go all out. Just having a cremation and then a memorial service at the funeral home is cheaper.
Same as in Croatia, except we call an orthodox priest to attend.
>>59848896
>everyone gathers to view the body
>maybe sing some songs
>people give their final words
>drive to the cemetary
>sing
>final final words
>people place flowers on the casket sometimes
>we all go eat
>>59848896
>We wait until just before the ground harden
>Bury the deceased naked in the fur of a bear
>Spend the winter building two Viking longships
>When spring comes the buried is exhumed an placed on one of the longships
>50 men dressed in full Viking outfit tows the wooden longship to the middle of a lake
>The wooden longship carrying the deceased is set alight.
>The other longship rows back to the beach
>The wife of the deceased is made unconscious and burned at the shore on this ship.
>>59852805
Oh, and we sing all time in common Norse.
We are buried with our favourite Donkeys
The body is pushed into the Gulf of Bothnia on a burning raft.
ok so, it's a long process. Let's imagine Giorgi dies
At first, they call appropriate people who make the coffin, which is put at his home, while the corpse is inside it, but with open "cap", in suit and proper care so that he does not rot.
It lasts for several days, maybe a week
in this time, a lot of people come to the house, relatives, friends, etc.
There are some ritualistic stuff the people do.
Also priest comes and does some stuff
then the time of funeral comes
in the afternoon, he is transported to the cemetery, where everything is already ready and he is buried.
After that, it's feast time, in which there are like 200 people on average, sometimes less, sometimes more.
drinking and eating. No meat allowed though.
