Living With De@d Bodies for Weeks
On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the Torajan individuals trust that a man is not genuinely de@d until water bison have been relinquished at their burial service, serving as the vehicle to existence in the wake of de@th. Until that time, the bodies are might be kept at the family’s home for quite a long time, months or years and are sustained and nurtured as though they were alive. Some Torajans proceed with their association with the de@d through a ma’nene’ function, a sort of “second memorial service” in which families draw out their progenitors like clockwork and put on something else and clean their bodies and sepulchers.
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