Thread was a bit hard to read today with things so fresh for me. Here burials are like how its been done for thousands of years. Autopsy only if foul play is suspected. Most are buried same day. Men get two white sheets, women 3. The body is brought to home or local home and washed by family members or community member. Then wrapped placed in a pine box or on a wooden board. Then a community prayer is made and after the men take the body down to where it will be buried. Men dig your grave for you and its considered honors to lay someone to rest. Funeral mourning last 3 days for people to come pay respects. Everyone pitches in and community meals are made in honor of the person. Going to visit afterwards is up to each family and markers may be no more than a rock. I was fine with all but a few things and you can see a link to my blog on my profile if you want to learn more about me. My biggest anger was no one gave me any decisions. We all strongly believe in donation and with my youngest being diabetic we lost an opportunity that could have let her brothers death heal her. I got only a few moments to say goodbye to my boy and I try to move past it but hell will be raised if another child passes before me. But life is just unpredictable so all I can do now is let people here know my wishes. It might not be customary but it is right and can be done. The shear numbers of deaths that occur here just on normal things well in one month my son helped bury 5 people just from this neighborhood, think of all the donations....I got to get my sons headstone fixed they wrote the wrong month on it. Since few years fron now most would not be able to find it I marked it gps. Got enough ancestors lost as it is. Life and death is different here than im accustomed to but I just need it tweaked a bit.
