Funeral Traditions Are Even Older Than the Open Casket Wake

A lot of what we're seeing now is a return to traditions that are even older than the open casket wake. And if your mam dies at home, say, under hospice, just keeping her body there and washing her hair,. perhaps putting on her favourite sweater, singing songs with her until such a time as you decide to call the funeral director. For a lot of people, the idea of keeping a body a d washing its hair, that's just too gross to imagine. I mean, iit's just something you would think to do. You wouldn't think to do it. But that is such an, such a recent thing, ykno! Up intil

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