>americans have something called "open casket funerals"

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are you serious?

>>75198879
it's a christian thing, you wouldn't understand

>>75198879
>>75198917
Yeah, it's real, but tons of Americans find it weird too.

yeah
i was watching american movies like sixth sense and they are fucking eating snacks while dressed in black lmao
what the fuck america

That's just a wake isn't it?

>>75198879
>>75198917
>ewwww!!! yucky dead guy!!! mommy help me i'm scared!!!!
this is why muslims are taking your women you soft, sheltered little pussies

there are drive through open casket funerals too

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>>75199289
no fucking way

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>>75199248
>americans are unironically defending this

>>75198879
Ye old timey tradition, along with taking creepy photos of dead people to make them look like they where still alive

>>75198879
We have wakes here.

>>75199086
I don't think so. "Open casket" means you don't close the coffin until you go to put them in the ground.

>>75199086
Wakes are the night before the funeral, not the service itself.

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>>75199378
>scandis are unironically this effeminate

My dad is from Pampanga in the Philippines

When my grandma died they held a fiesta

There was even a tradition where they couldn't leave the dead alone overnight so my dad, my mum and his relatives all slept in the church

My family did this when my grandpa died 2 years ago, it was the last time i saw my grandpa peacefully sleeping forever.
i liked it tbqh pham

>>75198879
>in somebody's home for all to watch while the surrounding people eat food and snacks
It's not someone's home it's in a church or funeral home and the reception is after the body has been buried.

>>75198879
And? Watch so strange about that? We have wakes here too.

>snowniggers spoiled by satan's touch cant understand how christian's traditions works

we have open casket (unless the one dead is fucked up beyond recognition) until it's time to put them in the ground

why are danes such fucking manbois they can't even see the dead without pissing their pants covered in pig cum?

>>75199341
http://time.com/3517280/drive-thru-casket-viewings-funeral-home/

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>>75199248
>>75199430
>looking at a dead old man in a casket is considered manly in USA

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>>75199697
Smelly dumb pagan scum

Yeah. You have an open casket and it's like a party - everyone gets together to talk about the person who died and shit. Even funerals without an open-casket service are parties here. I know the concepts of 'fun' and 'meaningful social interaction' are completely alien to snowniggers, but even you should be able to understand.

>>75199697
it's ok sven i promise the spooky dead man won't hurt you

although come to think of it scandcucks are too autistic to have any sort of social gathering in the first place so maybe that explains it

>>75199631
because it usually takes a week or two for the funeral procedings to happen and nobody wants to have a half rotten corpse as the last memory of the deceased person

>>75199697
>freaking out over seeing a dead person at a wake is normal in Sweden

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What's the fucking point?

Do you think the person wanted to be put on display when he died? Fucking fatties had to include food somehow aswell

>>75199886
>Do you think the person wanted to be put on display when he died?
Yes

>>75199816
kek

>>75199738
>>75199816
>>75199849
just bury the damn corpse and be done with it, I didn't know it was such a sensitive issue to you

>>75199836
>because it usually takes a week or two for the funeral procedings
holy shit what???? it takes literally a couple of days to get someone from the status of 'found rip' to the funeral (or burning) here. they spend a day in the morgue for the specialist to find out specific cause of death and prep them for the funeral, but that's about it for delays

>>75199959
you're the one sperging out over a pretty common christian tradition that multiple nations ITT have said they also participate in

>>75199886
People usually express how they want to be buried in advance here. So yes, in a lot of cases they do actually want to have an open-casket service.

>>75199886
it is more about celebrating the things the person did while alive and saying goodbye to him.

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>>75199921
>martha when I inevitably get shot by those negroes down the block make sure to put my disgusting ass corpse on display so you all can eat mayo with spoons and pretend you gave a shit

>>75199959
You're the one who seems to be overly sensitive about it

Why the fuck do you care anyway

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>>75199998
not sperging out, just making fun of it

>>75199999
BOOOOOOO
GET OUTTA TOWN
YOU SUCK

>>75199959
Dumbass

I have only been in a funeral with an open casket once and it was an Orthodox funeral.

To be honest, I thought saying goodbyes to a dead guy would be more spooky but it wasn't that weird

>>75200062
>Why the fuck do you care anyway
it's called shitposting you dumb burger

>>75200045
>sperging out over someone else's decisions
Get some help bud

>random country anywhere in the world has a tradition
>ok
>america has a tradition
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH WHY DO AMERICANS DO THIS?????
why are europeans so obsessed with us?

>>75199981
It's a little more complicated here, because people often die thousands of miles away from where they'll eventually be buried. For example, I live in Memphis and one of my friends died while in Portland. The family had his body transported back here (about 3500 km) to bury him in a family plot at a local cemetery.

>>75199959
depends on the family, when my uncle died, his sons/daughter wanted to do the whole works with the funeral. My father just wanted to bury him and get back home, seemed like a waste of time since his brother was already dead.

>>75200107
i think you're just triggered over the entire thread laughing at your autistic country for being afraid of dead people (and socializing)

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>>75200132
t. triggered Americlap

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>>75200107
If it is you're horrible at it and should probably cut to the chase and kys your self

>>75200107
You're pretty bad at it then

Funny how judgemental americans are about islamic traditions yet they have retarded barbaric shit like this.

>>75200164
>(and socializing)
it's a funeral mate not a party

>>75200201
>waaah I can't handle banter

>>75200227
the Dane started it

Funny how judgemental swedes are about christian traditions yet they have nothing at all

>>75200262
you mean your funerals don't turn into parties once the deceased has been buried or burned? what the fuck kind of autist country are you actually?

>>75200262
in normal countries where people aren't soft manchildren people generally don't spend the entire funeral weeping and cowering away from the coffin like girls. there's plenty of casual conversation and socializing.

>>75200243
It's funny how obsessed you are with things that shouldn't matter to you

>>75200303
>muh christianity
>worshiping a dead jew on a stick
I guess worshiping jewish overlords comes naturally to Americans

>>75200317
the party is after, not really part of the funeral itself

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>all these people, non-americans included, defending this shit

>>75200329
Again, I fail to see how looking at a corpse makes you manly. I've worked in elderly homes and saw dead people all the time, it's not a big deal

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>>75199248
KEK Europistanis are SO MAD right now!

>>>75199697
Pic related

My grandfather died when I was 6 and I remember his funeral. Even for a being a small child, I wasn't scared about it or found it anything weird.

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>>75200172
says the swede who actually had to make a thread because the fact that another country has different funeral traditions than his is just so bewildering
are you happy with your le epic bant thread dumbass

>>75200295
Nice projection

>>75200368
Nah but at least we have a culture

>>75200383
Are you a child?

>>75200435
being able to look at a corpse without pissing your pants or breaking out sobbing doesn't make you manly it makes you normal. scandcucks are apparently the only ones who are terrified of dead people and treat funerals like these horrible nightmarish events where they all stay as far away from the coffin as possible and nobody talks

>>75200467
Most of the funerals I've been to are incredibly boring. Except the crying, could do without that.

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>yes yes I would like to have my loved one displayed so I can say goodbye to a fucking corpse, all whilst eating

>>75200368
>the party is after, not really part of the funeral itself
well good for at least that

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>>75200478
the guy in your gif is a Norwegian celebrity

dont you have a feast or smt to remember the dead, not open casket dracula shit, just a memorial dinner or smt

I'm saying because I've seen forum posts where people ask if their child wouldn't be traumatized by seeing a dead body at a funeral, but no, I wasn't phased by it at all.

This whole thread is fucking autism personified

>>75200580
we have a glorious feast right after we have sent the dead one away. it has a name, but it is untranslatable to english. we set a table and in the centre we set a seat for the one who has gone away with body, but remains with us in spirit. we fill the glass with drink and plate with food so when we salute his/her name the spirit is taking part in the sending away...

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>>75200530
Not sure where you're getting this from. Our funerals are like yours except with closed caskets, probably more silent during the event because we show respect to the dead person and his loved ones. But you Americans seem to have a hard time knowing when to shut your mouths

Personally I'd like to be cremated when I die because you'll just be forgotten in 100 years anyway, so there's no point in burial unless you're famous.

>>75200580
It's usually after.
We sit in church and listen to the priest and family talk about the dead guy then he gets buried so they have to transport the body.

After that there's usually food with pictures of the dead guy around

>>75200690
i'm getting this from this thread where you and the danecuck are the only prissy little fruitcakes who are offended at the idea of looking at a corpse or speaking at a funeral while every other country agrees that viewings are normal and funerals are supposed to be social events

>>75198879
What you are describing is a wake which usually takes place the day before the funeral. Open casket funeral is just a normal funeral but with the casket open hence the name.

>>75200746
but why would you want to look at a corpse though

>>75200690
>But you Americans seem to have a hard time knowing when to shut your mouths
You Swedes have a hard time knowing when to shut your borders.

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I was in my grandfather's funeral a couple months ago and it was quite nice.

First the coffin is brought to the church yard by a funeral coach, then six men of the family, including me, my brother and my father come and pick up the coffin and slowly walk through the aisle of this old wooden church while the organs are playing and lay the white birch coffin next to the altar where the priest performs the final blessing and pours gravel on the coffin in the shape of a cross.

Then the funeral convoy, led by the six men carrying the coffin and the priest walk through the cemetery to lay the coffin on top of the scaffold overlooking the grave site. After this everyone lays their flowers on the coffin and says their final words to the deceased. First comes the widow and the couple's children, then comes the grandchildren and after that siblings.

Finally the six men who carried the coffin to the grave site come and slowly lower the coffin into the pit while the priest sings a deep hymn with the funeral envoy. After this the everyone tosses a fistful of soil on the coffin and says their final goodbyes.

I was never really close with my grandfather and didnt really feel anything when he died, I only cried in the funeral when I saw how heartbroken everyone was, nobody could hold back their tears in that moment.

After that came the memorial situation where everyone gathered in the cemetery chapel to eat together and celebrate the life of the deceased.

This was in rural Karelia though, I don't know about funeral traditions elsewhere, pic related was the church

>>75198879
We have wakes to but people don't come to eat there. They come to salute the person.

we have that custom here too, it's called daća

>>75200803
because it's part of the traditional ceremony and nobody really cares either way because we're not little sissy swedebois

>>75200849
The food is usually pretty minimal and included just as part of the reception afterwards

We have the open caskets but I've never seen it combined with snacks. As was said about the open casket is at a viewing which is done at a funeral home, followed by the funeral and burial, followed by the reception where you have food.

>>75200859
and here it's part of tradition to not display the body out of respect, and we don't care what you do either

>>75199697
It's not masculinity it's just whether or not you have the psych

>>75200579
Who is it?

>>75200929
>we don't care what you do either
and yet little sissy scandbois are the ones who made the thread and then started shitposting in it after you got thoroughly BTFO by most of the civilized world

>>75200911
Open casket wakes always have sweet food and incense, because that masks the rotting smell. After the 12th hour, the body starts to smell sweet, and sugary foods mask that.

>>75199407
>wakes
>one night
What? Ours up north last 3 days

Also I would like a viking funeral where I am put on a boat with all my possessions (including my still-alive gf) and then the whole thing is torched

When my grandma we went to see her corpse

I dont know is that ant weirder?

>>75200132
Because they have grown weak so they need us to protect their pussy asses

>>75200984
coroners usually use preservative chemicals to prevent that

>>75200984
We have the incense too, but like I said never seen snacks, the open casket is done at a funeral home (i.e., place where bodies are embalmed) so probably it wouldn't even be legal to serve food.

>>75200837
Comfy

>>75200968
>civilized world
>Mexico
>Philippines
>Estonia
>Serbia
haha aa

>>75200243
>Funny how judgemental americans are about islamic traditions yet they have retarded barbaric shit like this.
ok retard

>>75201014
Any*

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>>75201032
oh that's right i forgot what the scandcuck definition of "civilized" is

>>75198879
You don't do that

>>75200837
i buried my grandfather earlier this year

found him dead in his apartment. the medical unit took him away and i had to settle the for the funeral.

a black car took the coffin of oak to the last ceremony. we carried his coffin into the holy place with six men. me, my father and the sons of my fathers brother, who were three. we opened the casket in the holy place.

there were musicians playing his favorite classical tunes (or karelian origin). the 'father' blessed his going.

we all sent him away with good wishes with a kiss on the cheek and whispers into the ear.

then we closed the casket and carried him into the burial site. we lowered him into the ground while a young girl sung a lament.

then we all threw three fistfuls of ground into the grave and set candles.

then we (the men) shoveled the grave full of ground.

we proceeded to the inn for the final remembrance.

/blog

>>75201015
After losing the Vietnam War and the War in Afghanistan I don't trust you to protect anyone

most of the snacks are made out of the deceased as a way to honor their memory

Also if your graveyards aren't located on the outskirts of town you're country is uncivilized as fuck

>>75201016
>>75201023
mixed sugar and wheat--"блaгa пшeницa"--is literally a metaphor for death. wakes are traditionally done at the hose of the diseased.

>>75198879
https://youtu.be/qT85KnZwU1w
BURY YOUR DEAD GOYIM

>>75199689
Americans aren't even people.

>>75201109
>hose
*house

>>75201075
I don't trust that y'all can protect your own abodes

>>75201117
They're right though. Jews know what's up

>>75200690
>I'm so mad right now, but let me tell you about your country anyways

>>75201072
Sounds very similar except the shovel part, just how shallow are your graves? Here they're all 3-4m deep so that the decades of freezing and melting soil won't move rotten skeletons above ground

>>75201193
Fuck off snow Jew

>>75199389
Yeah but we haven't done the latter since the Victorian era.

>>75201210
i would guess around 2 meters at most. in my part of the ground we have sandy soil so the dead stay in the ground forever.
i hear in the northern part of estonia they dig shallower graves, but since there is only limestone it dissolves everything but bone so it's not a problem

>>75201287
Here in south-east the ground is mostly loose glacial till which shifts a lot if the temperature keeps going above and below freezing often, making pavements crack a lot faster than elsewhere in yurop, even though most pedestrian pavements are insulated nowadays

Open casket is so stupid and disgusting.

>>75199999
checked

>>75201540
Sounds perfect for Americans then.

Just mourn your own dead and stop bickering about how, they deserve at least this much respect, even if this is an anonymous website.

>>75199248
that escalated quickly.

again.

>>75201630
Tell us something interesting about Brasil, lad. Mexicans also have a thing about sugar and death AFAIK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiwqRSCWw2g

>>75200303
It's not a Christian tradition, at least not a Catholic one because we don't do that here. It's pretty fucked up to dine with an open casket with your dead relative in

I bet they clap too

>Well done mate, you fucking died.

>>75202761
you have disgraced australia

>>75202857
GOOOOOOOOD JAAAWWWWWP

I thought it was a common thing, most funerals that I've gone to have had open casket or transparent layer, people use them as a way of saying goodbye. And yes, there are cookies, tea, coffee and hot chocolate milk. Also funeral jokes are best jokes.

>>75202761
and use red cups while wearing shoes

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>>75199697
>they avoid eye contact with the living
>no wonder they are horrified by the dead
you savages are worse the the muslims
oh wait

>>75202924
Scandinavian millennials are not familiar with the
Christian traditions

Is it the fact that it's open casket that's weird? I mean typically funerals held at a church or funeral home are open casket.

Or is it that people have viewings in their own home with food like it's just another social event? Because yeah that's kind of fucked.

>>75200738
what if you don't go to church

>>75203068
>viewings with food
kek no

>>75198957
>implying we don't do the same

why are some scandis so rude

what is up with this autism?
they do that in every catholic cunt.
protestants do that here as well.
not sure about other protestant cunts
can anyone confirm?

>>75202969
Good album

>>75203754
yeah. glad that someone here knows it!
good times

>>75203816
I remember drinking beer and listening to it with friends. I wish i was in school again. Everything seemed so easy...now i'm a sad wagecuck lol

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>>75203914
yes, my friend, i know the feel, exact same here. i moved twice ever since and lost touch with all of my old buddies. now it is work home work home, barely enough time to shitpost kek

>>75198879
Americans are subhumans nothing new

>>75198879
Not a lot of people here do that, my family does though.
Why do you find that strange?

My friend had an open casket funeral, I was kinda weirded out at first but it was a really fine event at the end. He just looked like he was sleeping.
I owed him 5 euros at the time of his death, got to put them in the casket as well.

>>75198879
We do that too, but we do it in funeral homes designed for that, not on our own homes. Christian tradition.

>>75198879
Only poor people do that

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>>75198879
dont see anything wrong in that

>>75198879
I feel you OP. I'm an American myself, and I've always found it creepy.

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>>75208320

>>75198879
If dead people don't open their caskets, then how are we supposed to tip them?

>>75208683
i cant tell if that image is a reaction to that silly custom or an attempt to mimic the grinning corpse

>>75208783
And you will never know. Life should have a few mysteries.

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>>75199886
Ruskies started it.

>>75199086
Wake is when you chill out after the funeral

>>75198879
Its more of a Catholic thing. And it's called a wake dumb-ass. Everyone gets to see the deceased one last time in a peaceful manor, and pay their respects. Since it usually occurs around lunch time snacks are provided for those giving their last good-byes and respects to the deceased. Its a good-bye party in the dead's honor. It helps some cope with the loss.

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As if only Americans do this. Scandinavia is being weird again.

>>75198879
>watch while the surrounding people eat food and snacks

I've never seen anyone eat snacks in front of an open casket. What the fuck do you people smoke in denmark?

As someone who has worked in a Swedish funeral home I can explain how most funerals we held look like (unless it's a cremation cermony)
>the funeral home puts the body in the coffin
>any family relics or such as well are put in
>we load the casket into a hearse
>we drive it to the cermony building (usually located on funeral grounds)
>meanwhile the friends and families have had a wake, said some words and such
>when the hearse arrives it drives to the building, it get's carried inside
>people say their last good bye
>casket get's carried to the grave
>we lower the casket down into the ground
>family and friends walks over from the wake building
>priest or what ever says some fancy, sad words, a song is playing, usually this one in 7/10 cases
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEWoqz0tWVM
>the family maybe have a speach, then it's done
>the grave get's filled in, people leave
Usually doesn't takem ore than one hour.

>>75209193
Yep that's pretty much how my grandpas funeral looked liked, but they drove his casket directly to the grave.

>>75198879
So what do you have closed casket funerals only? How do you say goodbye to the loved one?

>>75198879
when my grandfather was buried the casket was open and people could have a look before the ceremony itself.
they asked if I want to have a look, but I really didn't feel the need

I thought everyone did this.
Close casket is only when the body is just unsightly.

>>75200984
The bodies are pumped with formaldehyde which prevent decomposition for several decades.

>>75198879
They do this in NZ as well
The only funeral I've been too was open casket

>>75199378
It's simply a vigil, a goodbye, for the dead.
I don't know what's so strange or weird about it.
Please explain.

If it's the "snacks" that bother you.
It really depends, some people don't have snacks at all, some just have coffee, tea, water, etc. Some are more extravagant. but it never perceived as disrespectful, and people don't eat on top of the body. they go sit somewhere away from the casket, and greet the bereaved and stuff.

>>75209499
Yeah m8 I forgot that they won't be able to hear us because of the casket

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>>75209499
>How do you say goodbye to the loved one?
You telling me a open casket will help?
>dead uncle Tommy can hear me better if the casket is open

>>75209661
You just throw your people down a river, so STFU

>>75209705
And you're just one condescending edgy fedorafag.

>>75198879

This is every funeral I've ever been at. I haven't to many wakes though but the casket is usually not in the room where you're eating snacks. This is not normal in eurostan?

>>75209736
Oh look he got upset.
I simply don't understand it.
I have buried my father, grandfather and a friend.
We don't have open casket funerals.
Standing around a dead corpse is strange as fuck.

>>75209717
I'm Kashmiri actually but atleast we don't behead them after putting their cut off benis in their mouth

>>75200132
But is not an American tradition, it's just OP, he's a faggot

>>75199836
A week or two? Have you ever had anyone you know die? It takes like a couple days max

>>75209740
>This is not normal in eurostan?
No.. People wanna get that shit over with as fast as possible. Most funerals take less than 1 hour.
>casket put in the ground
>speach : he/she was a good person bla bla
>gets covered with dirt
>everybody goes home/to the pub

>>75198879
I've never heard of people eating food at an open casket, but I don't understand what's wrong with them?

Usually people want to give a kiss on the forehead, or hold their hand for one last time before they're put in the ground.

>>75209705
You're the only person in this thread who has said this is weird.

Technically speaking, you are the weird one.

>>75209906
>Technically speaking, you are the weird one.
Yeah and? It's still weird here.

Everyone in the Christian world does this except for Scandis you dumb cheese slicer using pig fuck.

We get it, you're all autistic and can't handle interacting with other human beings even when they're dead.

>>75209193
Seems more practical, I hated going to funerals for people I did not know but was dragged to. With everyone giving their long speeches, crying, and waiting for them to bury the dead, it gets incredibly boring.

>>75198879
Eh? We do that too, I thought that was a common thing all around the world.

>>75209974
>it gets incredibly boring.
I can imagine.
And people here don't really wanna be wasting time when it's a high chance it's cold as fuck outside.
When my grandfather was buried it was -38 C outside..

Do scandis just throw their dead in a snow drift or something?

>>75210144
>Do scandis just throw their dead in a snow drift or something?
No but funerals are not advanced gatherings..
>put the coffin in the ground
>say a few words
>go get drunk

We do it too.

I only ever went to one funeral (my mother's) and it had an open casket.
Don't remember anyone eating though, but I can't really remember much of that day besides the shock.