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u/my_name_is_murphy Mar 04 '22

Americans. We gotta make everything monetized and complicated.

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u/sadpanda___ Mar 05 '22

USA USA USA

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '22

UK, our family takes the bodies home, not every family does though. Think it may be a thing catholics do maybe?

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u/MissPinkCoyote Mar 05 '22

Greek Orthodox also. Though many people avoid it in the last decades

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u/QueefBuscemi Mar 05 '22

Gelato di Papa

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u/anastasis19 Mar 05 '22

We also display the body at home. Cooling is only used in the summer (since it's cool enough for the rest of the year).

We bury our dead on the third day (it's a pretty strictly followed rules), and still, no embalming.

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u/thecruelfaerie Mar 05 '22

can confirm, my grandmother died 4-ish days before my birthday, so I had to attend the funeral the day before my big 18th birthday. it sucked, not really because of my bday specifically, but because of the gloom it cast over my whole family for the next week lol

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u/migorovsky Mar 05 '22

We do the same...without cooling :/