Has anybody ever seen an asian funeral taking place? no racist comments please..?

I AM ASKING THIS AS I REALLY WONDER AS I HAVE NEVER SEEN AN ASIAN FUNERAL, MY CULTURE HAS THE HURST AND CARS FOLLOWING, FLOWERS ETC, CHURCH SERVICE THEN BURIAL AT GRAVESIDE OR CREMATION, WHAT HAPPENS AT ASIAN FUNERALS, IS THERE A CERTAIN ASIAN CEMETARY OR DO THEY HAVE THIER OWN LIKE JEWISH ONES FOR EXAMPLE? MY DAD WAS CREMATED IN SPAIN AND HE HAS TO BE CREMATED WITHIN 24HRS, THATS A SPANISH THING SO ARE ASIAN CREMATED OR BURIED? PLEASE DO NOT POST ANY RACIST COMMENTS AS THIER REALLY IS NO NEED FOR NASTINESS, ITS JUST SOMETHING I WANT TO KNOW...
Has anybody ever seen an asian funeral taking place? no racist comments please..?
As soon as a Muslim dies, he/she is buried straight away. So the body is washed straight away, wrapped in a shroud and a burial takes place. Just before the burial the body is taken in a coffin, in a Hurst to the home of the family. This is where the women get a Chance to see the body before the body is taken to the mosque. Prayers are read at this time also.

The body is then taken to the mosque, just as you would in your funerals and then prayers are said and the body is buried. It is forbidden in Islam to be cremated. This is quite a vague description but i hope it helps you get a better picture. Its much the same as your funerals, only we get buried straight away.
Reply:to be perfectly honest i am in the UK,and i have never heard or seen one taking place,i think your right about they have to be buried in so long,something to do with mecca i believe and i think they also have to face a certain way,that's what i have always believed anyway,but to the point of the asian funerals i could not say for sure as i have never wittnessed one.
Reply:y the hell r u typin in all caps

first of all
Reply:Went to the funeral of a Hindu colleague a few years ago. He was cremated, which I think is their norm. The difference that we noticed compared to English culture was that the family followed the coffin once it went behind the curtain- apparently they have to see it actually go into the furnace. The other thing was that the traditional mourning colour is white, although many people that they knew just came in their everyday clothes which seemed to be quite acceptable.
Reply:If you mean Asian Indian, then yes. In my culture, people choose cremation over "normal" burial. In the West, loved ones are taken to a crematorium. In some places in India, people burn the dead on a funeral pyre.



Edit: No, I am not Muslim. We don't keep the body in a mosque. I am unaware of where the body is kept, but I am quite sure it is in the morgue until the ritual washing ceremony. The ashes are generally scattered in the water- rivers (especially the Sutlej river or the Ganges river).

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