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Indonesian traditional Funeral/Living with Dead Body over Weeks/Sulawesi Island

On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the Torajan people believe that a person is not truly dead until water buffalo have been sacrificed at their funeral, serving as the vehicle to the afterlife. Until that time, the bodies are may be kept at the family's home for weeks, months or years and are fed and cared for as if they were alive. Some Torajans continue their relationship with the dead through a ma'nene' ceremony, a type of "second funeral" in which families bring out their ancestors every few years and change their clothes and clean their bodies and crypts.

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  1. Buffalo sacrficed to serve vehicle to dead one at yonder world.
    Bizarre funeral ceremony ever seen. Dead body exposed to Camera.
    Every country has its own distinctive funeral rituals and wedding as well.
    It may be yakky grotesque, but enlightening on the cultural things.

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