In Reply to: Trip to see funeral arrangements...... posted by Baldie on Tuesday, 28. June 2011 at 09:01 Bali Time:
highway, may start using it.
Yes, our village has started the same preparation, it is also now a good time for people to die...it makes it easier on everyone if the bodies are fresher. May sound morbid but it really is a good time to die and they are dropping like flies in our village out of courtesy to everyone, especially the men with no sons. Digging up 3 year old bodies is no mean feat and in our village they do it the old Hindu way, we stand the bodies up, not easy when they've been in the ground for a while. No fancy carriages, we carry the bodies just wrapped in cloth to the Dalam (cemetery) when they die, and that's where the will be cremated. Nothing much to see in our village, right now the village is full of rubbish from all the cock fights and people coming back to the village.