#Indian funeral

[the-dust-jacket]

Congratulations to all of the 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Award honorees! These are the Medalists and Honor books in the YA category.

[crazyrichxplainr]

Nikesh Patel for The Rake (ph: Matthew Eades)

[theo-cheveche]

An illustration made after French author Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's short story 'Vera'. Maybe I'll do a comic based on it.

[branium]

"In my culture, death is not the end...It is more of a stepping of point."

- my headcanon funeral dress for T'Challa, inspired by Shuri and M'Baku's outfits. He wears this for his father's funeral. 🦢 Please do not repost. 🦢

[parasolids]

i bought two tiny 1ml perfume samples. i got concrete by comme des garcons, which ive seen described as "like an art classroom" and like walking in a business district or under a mossy overpass, and then tam dao from diptyque, which is described as indian sandalwood, which isnt a scent i really like irl but we'll see how it goes

i've been wearing deathandfloral's art school dropout recently - the site describes it as wet clay, car exhaust, paint water, pencil shavings. it felt fitting, i don't draw anymore and i work in a car factory. when i tried it on at first i didn't like it bc it just felt waxy and sweet. but now after wearing it a few times i really like it - it starts off sweet and chemical and i definitely get the car exhaust note, which then turns more woody and mineral, which i guess is the clay/paint and pencil shavings. inexplicably it does smell strongly like lime after a while

i think i want a good death/graveyard/etc scent but a lot of the death related perfumes i see are WAIT LUSH BROUGHT BACK KERBSIDE VIOLET POST CANCELLED

[homoquartz]

my job only offers 3 fucking days for bereavement leave. fucking hellscape.

[urlocalpari]

MY COLLEGE SHORTENED OUR CHRISTMAS BREAK????

anyway, yeah i want to scream

[theangrypomeranian]

*aggressively does research at work for planned one shot for a ship that no one else has written for*

[culmaer]

there's another interesting distinction that could've been made here. French has separate words for 2 types of vegan :

végan·e describes a total vegan lifestyle. so not eating any animal products, and also not using any animal products, eg. no leather shoes or wool sweaters or beeswax candles

while végétalien·ne describes the vegan diet. not to be confused with végétarien·ne which is vegetarian as in no meat, but eggs and/or dairy could be oké

[asianfuneralservices]

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[analogboii]

i actually dont work tomorrow. like knowing before hand. what is this. i havent known this feeling in eons.

i texted my bestie. we're going to get indian food. and then maybe ikea. idk what do people do for fun nowadays smh

[amrityum]

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[sukantfuneral]

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[mallpop]

Decided to make this a reblog instead of clogging up the replies:

As someone from Indian background, it’s true that funerals are quite different. I think calling it “accepted” is not correct though (except perhaps for non-religious Indians who’s thinking on death is part of the Indian/Hindu dialectical)

Death in Indian culture, like in other Asian cultures, is considered unclean. But it is also considered to be a lighthearted affair. People treat death as a lighthearted affair because of widespread accepted belief in reincarnation or a de facto universalist afterlife (a unique aspect of many, perhaps most Abrahamic religious traditions in India). I think something westerners can’t ever fully grasp is how amongst most Indians, there’s no distinction between “secular/scientific” thought/action and religious belief as there is in the West. This means viewing death as a serious affair beyond proper rites is nonsensical, and (I mean this with 0 exaggeration) literally akin to questioning the existence of gravity or the color of the sky.

This means people expect you to treat death as a lighthearted affair too, and outwardly showing remorse or intimacy with death is looked down upon. I can recall a few years ago where the wife if the deceased started crying during the post funeral dinner party, which made everyone shun her and continue eating and laughing while the (episcopalian) bishop at the function chided her for concerning herself with “God’s affairs”

My experience is specific to Indian Christianity, but based on my interactions with friends and family (which is multi-faith), I understand the dynamic is at least similar in Indian Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism.

The above isn’t a hard and fast rule by any means though. If the deceased died by unseemly means (e.g. murder or even suspected murder), that puts pressure on the living family who wonder if they went on to a good/better afterlife (and of course have to deal with a sudden and unexpected violent death)

I feel like western countries in particular are just very removed from death in general. I've watched videos on funerals from Nigeria and India and I feel like in these places (and probably loads of others) death is a much more accepted part of life, and mourning there is much more personal as opposed to the distsnt, heavy calvinist funerals I grew up with. So that might have something to do with it, although I haven't personally experienced a different funeral before

yeah i agree, the taboo around death and funeral practices is definitely a very western concept (and, according to my readings, heavily influenced by the increased commodification and marketization of the funeral industry and death itself under capitalism, which is as fascinating as it is disheartening). and i know cultural differences will always exist and that's normal and even a good thing because everyone is different and it's more interesting that we all develop different attitudes and ways of thinking and behaving, but i do think it's a shame that death and grief are treated with such an "out of sight, out of mind" attitude in a lot of self-proclaimed "developed" "modern" western cultures when i'd argue that's actually a pretty unhealthy and "backwards" way of looking at it.

[harmonyuk]

What occurs at a Sikh memorial service is managed by the expectations of the Sikh religion.

[komsomolka]

The crowds that met them [Soviet delegation] in Calcutta were larger than had come out even for Gandhi’s funeral. The Indians liked the Russian informality. They liked it when Bulganin, finding the garlands they hung on him too heavy, tossed some on the necks of his hosts. They liked it when Khrushchev grabbed a peasant's sickle and showed that he, too, could reap. They especially liked it that distinguished foreigners adopted Gandhi caps and the Indian style of greeting, hands folded as if in prayer, instead of the Western handshake. “Why has no Westerner done this before?” they asked. The answer seemed clear. No Westerner had seen Indians as equals or copied in courtesy their manners in their own land. The Russians seemed to do it naturally.

Anna Louise Strong.