When my dad was buried in Cameroon, he was buried standing up. I find this distrurbing. Why do they do this? Do any other cultures do this?
by 
GRX
ANSWERS: 5
-
Perhaps to arrive in the next world standing up, ready to walk or run. Perhaps.
-
Maybe because it saves space in the graveyard? I think all cultures should do that... lest one day the world is a long highway, a landfill on one side, a graveyard on the other.
-
In Walhalla, and old gold mining town, in east Victoria, the valley sides are so steep that the people where all buried standing up - though there are a few laid down too.
-
I tried to find some information on Cameroon, but, sadly could not. I think the Japanese do...but can't confirm that Wikipedia says only this: Warriors in some ancient societies were buried in an upright position. Apparently they are starting the practice in Melbourne Australia http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4493655.stm http://www.westminster-abbey.org/faq/faq_burial.htm Who is buried in the Abbey standing up? The Elizabethan poet Ben Jonson who died in 1637, in the Nave. One story says that, dying in great poverty, he begged 18 inches of ground in the Abbey from Charles I, and another story relates that the poet told the Dean of Westminster that he was too poor to be buried in Poets' Corner and that 2 feet by 2 feet would be sufficient for him. When a Victorian grave was being dug nearby two leg bones were found buried upright in the earth and a skull rolled down from above these bones, so the story is thought to be true.
-
that is just wrong, now he is just slumped in a heap at the bottom of his casket, yuck
RELATED QUESTIONS
Copyright 2023, Wired Ivy, LLC