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Funerals
This document discusses funeral traditions in different cultures around the world. It provides details on English, Dutch, Jewish, Tibetan, and Chinese funeral practices. English funerals are held in cemeteries similar to parks, while Jewish funerals require washing and shrouding the body before burial within a day of death. Tibetan funerals involve three stages including prayers, lighting for the deceased, and sky burials where the body is left to be eaten by vultures. Chinese funerals include traditional mourning clothes and graves dug into hillsides surrounded by trees.
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- 1. FUNERALS Curious & Interestingfacts about funerals in different cultures
- 2. HAVE YOU EVERTHOUGHT ABOUT YOUR FUNERAL? The funeral of my life…
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- 4. THE IDEA OFFUNERALS Nobody’s immortal Death must be worthy
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- 6. FUNERAL’S TRADITIONS • Thedesign of last haven • Cemeteries are similar to parks • Modern melodies • Invitation for a funeral • Ritual cards
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- 10. Jewish traditions • Funeralsat the day of death • The body is washed and turned in a white shroud • People don’t put flowers in a coffin • Cremation and dissection are banned
- 11. Funeral ceremony The bodyis turned in a white shroud The typical Jewish coffin
- 12. • Lasts fora year • Consists of some distinctive periods The first 7 days are the main mourning: Entertainments Watching TV Listening music Reading books Marital intimacy Haircut Shaving Mourning ARE BANNED!
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- 14. FUNERALS ARE DIVIDEDINTO… …three stages: 1. Pronouncing prayers 2. Showing bright light to the dead 3. Destroying the body (Sky Burial)
- 15. Tibetan sky burial InitiallyFinally
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- 18. Chinese cemetery • Gravesare dig out on flanks of hills • Graves are planted around with trees
- 19. Red color meanshappiness If the dead was about 80 or more red colored things obliging are present at the funeral
- 20. Tsinmin holiday Chinese arevery faithful to their traditions Tsinmin is a remembrance day
- 21. Strippers on funerals Youcan see a quite rear show in Chine on funerals in some provinces
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- 23. IT’S STRANGE FOREUROPEANS Do you have dead unmarried relatives? See you soon! If the dead was unmarried, his relatives try to find a dead body of “free” woman
- 24. Conclusion 1. Different cultureshave different traditions about funerals 2. There’re many strange traditions 3. I hope you like this presentation 4. Our funeral journey is over!
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