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.

1. FUNERALS
Curious & Interesting facts about
funerals in different cultures

2. HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT
ABOUT YOUR FUNERAL?
The funeral of my life…

3. FUNERAL CEREMONIES’ TOUR

4. THE IDEA OF FUNERALS
Nobody’s
immortal
Death
must be
worthy

5. ENGLISH FUNERALS

6. FUNERAL’S TRADITIONS
• The design of last haven
• Cemeteries are similar to parks
• Modern melodies
• Invitation for a funeral
• Ritual cards

7. DUTCH FUNERALS

8. CHILDREN’S CEMETERIES

9. Jewish funerals

10. Jewish traditions
• Funerals at 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 body is turned in a
white shroud
The typical Jewish coffin

12. • Lasts for a 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!

13. Tibetan Funerals

14. FUNERALS ARE DIVIDED INTO…
…three stages:
1. Pronouncing prayers
2. Showing bright light to
the dead
3. Destroying the body
(Sky Burial)

15. Tibetan sky burial
Initially Finally

16. Chinese funerals

17. Chinese funeral clothes

18. Chinese cemetery
• Graves are dig out on
flanks of hills
• Graves are planted
around with trees

19. Red color means happiness
If the dead was about 80 or more red colored things
obliging are present at the funeral

20. Tsinmin holiday
Chinese are very
faithful to their traditions
Tsinmin is a remembrance day

21. Strippers on funerals
You can see a quite rear show in
Chine on funerals in some
provinces

22. Marriage union
before the grave

23. IT’S STRANGE FOR EUROPEANS
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 cultures have different traditions about funerals
2. There’re many strange traditions
3. I hope you like this presentation
4. Our funeral journey is over!

25. Thank you
for your
attention