Toraja's Culture
When someone, who's dear to you, leaves this
world you can't help but grieve, cry a whole river out and miss them like crazy
but nothing in this world can ever bring them back again.
In Toraja, an ethnic group in Indonesia a
mountainous place, they keep the corpse with them for about 1or more years and
treat them as if they can hear them but because of some illness can't move.
They take care of those dead loved ones, dress them with their favourite
belongings, feed them and greet them too like “Good Morning/Night”. They say
that if don't take care of the bodies their souls will haunt us.
While
they keep the dead bodies with themselves they save enough money to make their
funeral grand and still that funeral isn't a good-bye forever. After some time
they bring those corpses out of their graves and cleanse them for a big family
reunion and do a ritual called “Ma'nene”(Cleansing
of the corpse). The big thing about all of this is none of the kids seem to
be scared of those corpses.
Why do they do this stuff ?
Because it's just too hard to let go of it instantly.
They say that,
“When
you bury someone quickly then you will feel a quick loss that's why we keep our
loved ones around for so long so that we have more time with them we also wash
and clean them as we would with a sick person”
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