HERE, LIVING WITH DEAD BODIES FOR WEEKS—OR YEARS—IS TRADITION

HERE, LIVING WITH DEAD BODIES FOR WEEKS—OR YEARS—IS TRADITION

Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the Torajan individuals trust that a man is not genuinely dead until water bison have been relinquished at their burial service, serving as the vehicle to existence in the wake of death. Until that time, the bodies are might be kept at the family’s home for quite a long time, months or years and are sustained and nurtured as though they were alive. Some Torajans proceed with their association with the dead through a ma’nene’ function, a sort ofwatch video “second memorial service” in which families draw out their progenitors like clockwork and put on something else and clean their bodies and sepulchers