DM168 FUNERAL RITUALS QUIZ
1. In a New Orleans jazz funeral, the band plays sorrowful music during the procession but, once the body is buried, what type of music does it play?
2. Is it true or false that in South Korea, a law passed in 2000 requires anyone burying a loved one to remove the grave after 60 years because of dwindling graveyard space?
3. What exactly is a “sky burial” practised by Vajrayana Buddhists in Mongolia and Tibet?
4. What is a “reef ball” and is it considered to be an environmentally friendly burial?
5. What are the Caviteño people – an ethnic group in the Philippines – who live near Manila usually buried in?
6. Is it true or false that, in Balinese tradition, a cremation is thought to release the soul so that it can inhabit a new body?
7. When the Malagasy people of Madagascar perform a ritual known as “the turning of the bones”, what do they spray on to the exhumed bodies?
8. Is it true or false that the Apayao people – an ethnic group in the Philippines – bury their dead under the kitchen?
9. In Ghana, people aspire to be buried in coffins that represent their work or something they were passionate about in life. What are these coffins known as?
10. How do some Aboriginal societies in the north of Australia dispose of the deceased?